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Author Goldsmith, Elizabeth C

Title Exclusive Conversations : the Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1988

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- " 1 " Seventeenth-Century Guides to Interaction -- " 2 " Excess and Euphoria in Madeleine de Scudéry's "Conversations" -- " 3 " History, Social Identity, Talk: The Writings of Bussy-Rabutin -- " 4 " Sociability and Intimacy in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné -- " 5 " Teaching Sociability Through Literature: The Works of Edme Boursault -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Conversation in literature.
Social interaction in literature.
Courtesy in literature.
Salons -- France -- History -- 17th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Conversation in literature.
Courtesy in literature.
Courts and courtiers.
French literature.
Salons.
Social interaction in literature.
SUBJECT France -- Court and courtiers -- History -- 17th century
Subject France.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781512807158
151280715X