Commerce Du Parnasse
Pascal, Francoise. Ed(S): Steinberger, Deborah
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Paperback. This edition of Francoise Pascal's collection epistolary highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition, this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and preciosite. Editor(s): Steinberger, Deborah. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 78 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DN; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 115.
This critical edition of Françoise Pascal’s epistolary collection Le Commerce du Parnasse (Paris, 1669) highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer virtually unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter.
Composed of thirty-seven letters in prose and verse, Le Commerce du Parnasse is part gallant correspondence, part poetry collection, part epistolary novel. Now in its first modern edition, this fascinating text provides new insights into seventeenth-century salon life and the discourses of galanterie and préciosité.
This is a volume in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
Series
Exeter French Texts
Number of Pages
78
Place of Publication
Exeter, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859896672
SKU
V9780859896672
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About Pascal, Francoise. Ed(S): Steinberger, Deborah
Deborah Steinberger is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware.
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