Le Commerce Du Parnasse (Exeter French Texts): CXI - Softcover

Francoise Pascale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859896676 ISBN 13: 9780859896672

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 2001

Synopsis

This critical edition of Françoise Pascal’s epistolary collection Le Commerce du Parnasse (Paris, 1669) highlights a rare, innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer virtually unknown today, but in her time a distinguished playwright, poet and painter.

Composed of thirty-seven letters in prose and verse, Le Commerce du Parnasse is part gallant correspondence, part poetry collection, part epistolary novel. Now in its first modern edition, this fascinating text provides new insights into seventeenth-century salon life and the discourses of galanterie and préciosité.

This is a volume in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Steinberger is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859896676
• ISBN 13: 9780859896672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Deborah Steinberger