A labor of love
Subtitle: critical reflections on the writings of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu)
By: edited by Roxanne Decker Lalande.
Contributors: Lalande, Roxanne Decker, 1950-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, N.J; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Villedieu, Madame de, d. 1683 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: "Thanks to the continued efforts of present-day seventeenth-century scholars, a study devoted to the works of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Madame de Villedieu) should be of considerable interest to students and teachers of seventeenth-century literature, as well as a contribution to the fields of comparative literature and women's studies.".

"The purpose of this edition is to bring together for the first time a significant number of critical analyses on Marie-Catherine Desjardins by prominent scholars in a full-length study devoted to the full range of genres. The essays in this volume analyze a reasonable range of the author's works - novels, plays, letters, short stories - and demonstrate an impressive knowledge of the historical contexts - biographical, literary, social, and political - influencing Villedieu.

The authors engage in textual analysis informed by relevant scholarship on Desjardins and on other seventeenth-century writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.