Welcome - La femme de lettres au Grand Siècle/ Literary Women of French Classicism
GWST 4550 La femme de lettres au Grand Siècle/ Literary Women of French Classicism
CREDIT HOURS: 3
In this course, we will explore: aspects of the intellectual and social context particularly relevant to a study of literary women in seventeenth-century France (for example: social structures and norms, la préciosité, the salons, the libertinage of Ninon de Lanclos, women’s contributions as patrons of the arts); a representative selection of works, from several literary genres, written by seventeenth-century women (for example: novels by Mme de La Fayette and/or Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Sévigné’s letters, Mme d’Aulnoy’s contes, Mme de Sablé’s maxims); examples of literature written by men which counters the ambient misogyny of the period (for example: Molière’s L’École des femmes and La Bruyère’s Caractères).
FORMAT: Lecture
PREREQUISITES: 3000-level French literature course or instructor’s permission
CROSS-LISTING: FREN 4550.03
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