Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville: An MLA Text Edition (MLA Texts and Translations) - Softcover

Franois-Timolon de Choisy was a French author. He was an influential figure in the seventeenth-century French ecclesiastical community.

Marie-Jeanne L'Hritierwas a French writer in the seventeenth century.L'Hritier was a defender of womens writing and a significant writer in the fairy tale genre.

Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French writer and a member of the Acadmie franaise. Perraults stories have been influential in developing the fairy tale as a literary genre.

Joan DeJeans books reflect her areas of research: the history of women's writing in France(Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France); the history of sexuality(Fictions of Sappho, 15461937); the development of the novel(Literary Fortifications;Libertine Strategies); and the cultural history and the material culture of late 17th- and early 18th-century France(Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Sicle;The Essence of Style;The Age of Comfort).

The text has many interesting applications in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The crossed-dress life that the characters share offers a fascinating, unconventional approach to court culture of seventeenth-century France, as well as to thorny issues of contemporary society. Joan DeJean provides an excellent introduction that places the appeal of the text firmly within a historical perspective. Harriet Stone, Washington University