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Womens Writing in 17th-Century France

23:2 (1983) Summer

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Table of Contents

Editor's Preface

Author(s):

Lawrence M Porter

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3

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8

Woman as Object and Subject of Exchange: Marie de Gourmay's Le Proumenoir (1594)

Author(s):

Domna C Stanton

Pages:

9

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25

Marie de Gournay: le je/u/ palimpseste

Author(s):

Elyane Dezon-Jones

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26

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36

The World of Prose and Female Self-Inscription: Scudéry's Les Femmes illustres

Author(s):

Caren Greenberg

Pages:

37

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44

Gender and Rhetoric in Some Seventeenth-Century Love Letters

Author(s):

Gabrielle Verdier

Pages:

45

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57

The Dead Center: Desire and Mediation in Lafayette's Zayde

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58

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69

Madame de Sévigné's Epistolary Retreat

Author(s):

Elizabeth C Goldsmith

Pages:

70

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79

Tender Economies: Madame de Villedieu and the Costs of Indifference

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Pages:

80

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93

Madame de Villedieu's Les Désordes de l'amour: The Feminization of History

Author(s):

Arthur Flannigan

Pages:

94

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106

La Clôture féminine des Jeux d'esprit

Author(s):

Armine Kotin Mortimer

Pages:

107

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