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Privileged Anonymity: The Writings of Madame De Lafayette (Research Monograph in French Studies , No 1) (Legenda French Studies)
Privileged Anonymity The Writings of Madame De Lafayette - Research Monograph in French Studies , No 1 - Legenda French Studies Author:Anne Green This lucid study of the works of Madame Lafayette explores the ambiguities and tensions descernible in their writing. Anne Green shows Madame de Lafayette working out conflicting attitudes to her status as a woman and author, and, by tracing the patterns of reticence and self-revelation and the problems of communication between the sexes which r... more »un through all Madame de Lafayette's writing, she arrives at a persuasive new evaluation of her work. This book will be of particular interest to students of gender studies, as well as seventeenth-century specialists.« less