Salons, history, and the creation of seventeenth-century France
Subtitle: mastering memory
By: Faith E. Beasley.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Women intellectuals -- France -- History -- 17th century.; France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.; France -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The voices of shadows: the salons and literary taste; title: Defining a literary culture: the ruelles and literary innovation; title: From critics to hostesses: creating classical France; title: Disseminating a national past: teaching Le Grand Siècle.