Female intimacies in seventeenth-century French literature / by Marianne Legault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legault, Marianne.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--17th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Women in literature.

Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.

Physical Description:

ix unnumbered pages, 250 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.

Summary:

The egregious dearth of writings about female friendships--sexual and otherwise--extends from antiquity to the modern era, from Aristotle to Nietsche, explains Legault (critical studies, U. of British Columbia). She focuses on her area of specialty, which is 17th- and 18th-French literature, to investigate and contextualize this phenomenon. Sandwiched between an introduction and a conclusion, the study is arranged in three chapters giving a historical overview and discussing the subject in the masculine imagination (from sexual fantasy to apprehension) and in women's imagination (the death of Prince Charming). This book is a greatly expanded translation of Narrations déviantes: L'intimité entre femmes dans l'imaginaire français du dix-septième siècle (Les Presses de L'Université Laval). Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754669456

0754669459

9780754697077

075469707X

OCLC:

780161584