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“prof john d lyons”

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  • Women and Irony in Molière's Comedies of Marriage

    by Prof John D. Lyons ...
    This is a book about how Molière, France's most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the traditional comedy plot of thwarted courtship. Though justly celebrated for his mastery of physical comedy and farce, one of Molière's key moves was to pay attention to the way women could use language. Seventeenth-century France was a time when speaking well became exceptionally ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Read more

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  • Marguerite De Navarre

    A Literary Queen

    by Rouben Cholakian ...
    This is a shortened reworking of the 2006 biography Marguerite de Navarre, made more accessible here without the scholarly trappings. ... Read more

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  • Writing with a Vengeance

    The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

    by Carol A. Mossman ...
    Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Balzac

    Edited by Owen Heathcote, Andrew Watts ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

    $133.19 USD

  • Charles Palissot The Philosophes

    by Jessica Goodman, Olivier Ferret, Charles Palissot ...
    In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the ... Read more

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  • Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

    by Bronwyn Reddan ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

    Mastering Memory

    by Faith E. Beasley ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Amorous Restoration

    Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France

    by Andrew J. Counter ...
    When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life- ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy

    by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed ... Read more

    $61.99 USD