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L'Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women Volume 31

L'Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women Volume 31

Du Bosc, Jacques
Nell, Sharon Diane
Wolfgang, Aurora

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Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0772721602
ISBN13: 9780772721600
Publisher: Arizona Ctr For Medieval & Ren
Published: Jun 1 2014
Pages: 332
Language: English
I heartily recommend this translation and edition of the two works by Jacques Du Bosc. The introduction provides a solid, erudite entry to Du Bosc and his world, with a clear emphasis on the gender issues central to the Other Voice. Especially good is the detailed study ofthe reception of these works. Moreover, the translation is clear and readable. A great deal of work was required to transform the periodic sentences and paragraphs of seventeenthcentury French prose into an English work that is so readable and lucid for a contemporary reader who is not a specialist in the field. The long, informative titles to the essays and letters (already transparent in the table of contents) further situate material that can seem obscure to a contemporary reader. The informative notes, especially the biographical tags and the excellent use of Furetière to explore ambiguous or archaic phrases, illuminate a world that would otherwise seem opaque to many contemporary readers.

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