Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France
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collective memory France
De La Cour
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Eighteenth Century Salons
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Faith E. Beasley
French Language
French literary criticism
gendered literary authority research
Jacqueline Pascal
Je Ne
Je Ne Sais Quoi
La Langue
La Princesse De
Le Cid
Les Femmes Savantes
Marquise De Rambouillet
Mastering Memory
Mlle De
Mlle De Guise
Mme De
Nouvelle Historique
salon culture studies
Salon Milieu
Seventeenth Century Literary
Seventeenth Century Salons
seventeenth-century historiography
women in literature
Worldly Milieu
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- ISBN 9780754653547
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
Faith E. Beasley is professor of French at Dartmouth College, USA. She is the author of Revising Memory: Women's Fictions and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France. She is also the co-editor, with Katherine Ann Jensen, of Approaches to Teaching Lafayette's 'The Princess of Clèves'.
