Women Writers in Pre-Revolutionary France
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780415929028
Subjects: General; Literary Collections / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: While "evangelical" devisants like Oisille or Parlamante endorse a Pauline view of marriage in which man must love his wife as Christ loves the Church, husbands in the Heptameron are far from ideal and wives are more than passive partners.