A Labor of Love

Critical Reflections on the Writings of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu)

• Author(s): Roxanne Decker Lalande,
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
• Pages: 222
• ISBN_10: 0838638244
  ISBN_13: 9780838638248
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Literary Criticism / European / French , Literary Criticism / Women Authors ,

Description:... "The purpose of this edition is to bring together for the first time a significant number of critical analyses on Marie-Catherine Desjardins by prominent scholars in a full-length study devoted to the full range of genres. The essays in this volume analyze a reasonable range of the author's works - novels, plays, letters, short stories - and demonstrate an impressive knowledge of the historical contexts - biographical, literary, social, and political - influencing Villedieu. The authors engage in textual analysis informed by relevant scholarship on Desjardins and on other seventeenth-century writers."--Jacket.