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 Info | Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2000. |
| Description | 222 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index. |
| LCCN | 99033242 |
| ISBN | 0838638244 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PQ1794.D5 L33 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |