Writers and heroines : essays on women in French literature / edited by Shirley Jones Day.

Other author Day, Shirley Jones.
Format Book
Publication InfoBern ; New York : Peter Lang, ©1999.
Description177 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
French literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
French literature--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Women and literature--France.

Contents From footnote to mainstream / Annette Lavers -- "Hee! Quel Honneur au femenin Sexe!": Female heroism in Christine de Pizan's Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc / Rosalind Brown-Grant -- Writing wrongs: Lettres portugaises and the search for an identity / Jonathan Mallinson -- Decision, desire, and asymmetry in La princesse de Clèves / Michael Moriarty -- Madame d'Aulnoy's Julie: a heroine of the 1690s / Shirley Jones Day -- Angel or Sylph? The two-faced woman in Les illustres Françaises / Judith Beale -- Parole de femme dans les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit, de Crébillon fils / Réné Démoris -- Quelques aspects de la singularité féminine chez Mme de Tencin: les coulisses de la vertu / Patricia Louette -- Re-writing La princesse de Clèves: the Anecdotes de la cour et du règne d'Edouard II / Martin Hall -- Construction of identity in the correspondence of Belle De Zuylen / C.P. Courtney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 98033248
ISBN0820442143
ISBN3906761614

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ149 .W65 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold