Privileged Anonymity
The Writings of Madame de Lafayette

Anne Green

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Research Monographs in French Studies 1

Legenda

1 June 1996  •  100pp

ISBN: 1-900755-00-9 (paperback)  •  RRP £75, $99, €85

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This lucid study of the works of Madame de Lafayette explores the ambiguities and tensions discernible in her writing. Anne Green shows Madame de Lafayette working out conflicting attitudes to her status as woman and author, and, by tracing the patterns of reticence and self-revelation, and the problems of communication between the sexes which run through all Madame de Lafayette's writing, she arrives at a pursuasive new evaluation of her work. This book will be of particular interest to students of gender studies, as well as to seventeenth-century specialists.

Anne Green lectures in the French Department of King's College, University of London. She has published widely on the French novel, and is the author of Flaubert and the Historical Novel: Salammbô Reassessed (Cambridge University Press, 1982).

Reviews:

  • ‘Produces many fresh insights, and demonstrates admirably that La Fayette's writing repays detailed scrutiny... Readable, instructive and accessible: valuable for specialists and illuminating for the general reader.’ — Maya Slater, Times Literary Supplement 1996
  • ‘This thought-provoking study inaugurates a major new series of critical monographs... Offers many fresh insights into these important texts, and it is to be warmly welcomed.’ — Jonathan Mallinson, French Studies LIV.2, 2000, 215-6
  • Luisa Benatti, Studi francesi 124, 1998, 135

Bibliography entry:

Green, Anne, Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame de Lafayette, Research Monographs in French Studies, 1 (Legenda, 1996)

First footnote reference: 35 Anne Green, Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame de Lafayette, Research Monographs in French Studies, 1 (Legenda, 1996), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Green, p. 47.

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Green, Anne. 1996. Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame de Lafayette, Research Monographs in French Studies, 1 (Legenda)

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Example footnote reference: 35 Green 1996: 21.

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