A labor of love : critical reflections on the writings of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu) / edited by Roxanne Decker Lalande.

Other author Lalande, Roxanne Decker, 1950-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2000.
Description222 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Writing straight from the heart / Roxanne Decker Lalande -- Conspirators and tyrants in the plays of Villedieu / Perry J. Gethner -- Staging Foucquet: historical and theatrical contexts of Villedieu's Le Favori / Chloé Hogg -- Men in love in the plays of Mme De Villedieu / Henriette Goldwyn -- Inscribing the feminine in seventeenth-century narratives: the case of Madame De Villedieu / Nancy D. Klein -- Secret writing, public reading: Madame de Villedieu's Lettres et billets galants / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- Villedieu's transvestite text: the literary economy of gender and genre in Les mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière / Margaret P. Wise -- The play of pleasure and the pleasure of play in the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière / Donna Kuizenga -- Sex, Lies, and authorship in Villedieu's les Désordres de l'amour / Roxanne Decker Lalande -- Apprentices and collaborators: Villedieu's worldly readers / Faith E. Beasley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.
LCCN 99033242
ISBN0838638244 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ1794.D5 L33 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold