Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThese quite disparate texts by three women writers, none well known (although in two cases, their husbands certainly are), offer rare and engaging historical perspectives. A serious and well-informed study preceding the translations features close textual readings as well as references to pertinent critical articles and approaches. Richly recounting the contexts of the different “texts on sin and salvation,” the introduction poses important questions regarding gender, literary genre, male-female relations in early modern France, attitudes toward sin and salvation, self-representation, and the depiction of history. This scholarly accomplishment will provide an impressive academic resource for a wide range of readers.
Cathy Yandell
W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language, and Culture Chair, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College
“These quite disparate texts by three women writers, none well known (although in two cases, their husbands certainly are), offer rare and engaging historical perspectives. A serious and well-informed study preceding the translations features close textual readings as well as references to pertinent critical articles and approaches. Richly recounting the contexts of the different 'texts on sin and salvation,' the introduction poses important questions regarding gender, literary genre, male-female relations in early modern France, attitudes toward sin and salvation, self-representation, and the depiction of history. This scholarly accomplishment will provide an impressive academic resource for a wide range of readers.”
-- Cathy Yandell, Carleton College
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Marguerite d’Auge, The Pitiful and Macabre Regrets, 1600 29
Renée Burlamacchi, Memoirs Concerning Her Father’s Family, 1623 43
Jeanne du Laurens, The Genealogy of the du Laurens, 1631 55
Chronology 81
Bibliography 85
Index 93
