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Revising Memory

Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-century France

By: Faith Evelyn Beasley

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Revising Memory

Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-century France

By: Faith Evelyn Beasley

In the authorized historical and literary canons, women's activities as agents and writers have all traditionally been assigned to the same critical oblivion. Revising Memory resurrects a particularly dynamic moment in French history when women acted on the political stage and inscribed these often subversive actions in writing. Faith E. Beasley provides close readings of the use and conception of history in some of the primary representatives of women's literary creativity during this period: Montpensier's M�moires, Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl ves and her Histoire de Madame Henriette d'Angleterre, and Villedieu's Les D�sordres de l'amour. She studies these texts in relation to women's activities during the Fronde, the influential salons, the emerging female literary tradition, and the intense debate over the definition of history. Revising Memory compels the reader to evaluate traditional views of the importance of women writers, and offers new insight into literary history.

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0813515858

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Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Mastering Memory

By: Faith Evelyn Beasley

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Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Mastering Memory

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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.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Mastering Memory

By: Faith Evelyn Beasley

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Revising Memory

Revising Memory

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-century France

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