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Book Synopsis Selected Letters by : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1982 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
Book Synopsis Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Her Friends by : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Download or read book Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Her Friends written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performing Motherhood by : Michèle Longino Farrell
Download or read book Performing Motherhood written by Michèle Longino Farrell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Age of Conversation by : Benedetta Craveri
Download or read book The Age of Conversation written by Benedetta Craveri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.
Book Synopsis A Letter to a Young Poet by : Virginia Woolf
Download or read book A Letter to a Young Poet written by Virginia Woolf and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, “A Letter to a Young Poet” is an essay by Virginia Woolf. Written in epistolary form, it is a response to the writer John Lehman's request for Woolf to explain her views on contemporary poetry. A fascinating insight into the mind of one of England's greatest feminist writers not to be missed by fans and collectors of her seminal work. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “Craftsmanship - BBC Broadcast on April 20th, 1937”, and “A Letter to a Young Poet - First Published in the Yale Review, June 1932”. Read & Co. Great Essays is republishing this classic essay now in a brand new edition complete with Woolf's essay “Craftsmanship”.
Download or read book Yours Ever written by Thomas Mallon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature—a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.
Book Synopsis Selected Letters by : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Download or read book Selected Letters written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
Book Synopsis The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends by : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Download or read book The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virginia Woolf's Renaissance by : Juliet Dusinberre
Download or read book Virginia Woolf's Renaissance written by Juliet Dusinberre and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Virginia Woolf's affinity with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn as writer and reader through the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. The author, a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, critiques Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers--Montaigne, Donne, Pepys and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de Sevigne. She considers the forms traditionally associated with women, such as the essay, the personal letter and diary, in the context of printing, the body, and the relationship between amateurs and professionals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author :Marie De Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne Publisher :Kessinger Publishing ISBN 13 :9781104313050 Total Pages :436 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis The Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends (1878) by : Marie De Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne
Download or read book The Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends (1878) written by Marie De Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Strange Revelations by : Lynn Wood Mollenauer
Download or read book Strange Revelations written by Lynn Wood Mollenauer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people&—including Louis XIV&’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court&—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King&’s capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel. In the fall of 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, head of the Paris police, uncovered a plot to poison Louis XIV. La Reynie&’s subsequent investigation unveiled a loosely knit community of sorceresses, magicians, and renegade priests who offered for sale an array of services and products ranging from abortions to love magic to poisons known as &“inheritance powders.&” It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name. The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court. Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals. While the exercise of state power during the ancien r&égime was quintessentially visible&—ritually displayed through public ceremonies&—the affair exposes the simultaneous presence of other imagined and real sources of power available to the Sun King&’s subjects: magic, poison, and the manipulation of sexual passions. Highly entertaining yet deeply researched, Strange Revelations will appeal to anyone interested in the history of court society, gender, magic, or crime in early modern Europe.
Book Synopsis Letters of Madame de Sevigne by : Madame de Sevigne
Download or read book Letters of Madame de Sevigne written by Madame de Sevigne and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters by : Dena Goodman
Download or read book Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters written by Dena Goodman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 18th century France, letter writing became extremely fashionable, particularly amongst women. In this work, Dena Goodman opens up the world of these women though the letters which they wrote. Concentrating on the letters of four women from different social backgrounds, she shows how they came to womanhood through their writing.
Book Synopsis The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu written by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France Before 1789 written by Jon Elster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--
Book Synopsis Selected Letters of Madame de Sévigné, Ed. for School Use by : Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Download or read book Selected Letters of Madame de Sévigné, Ed. for School Use written by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bridge of San Luis Rey by : Thornton Niven Wilder
Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Niven Wilder and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is based on a fictional disaster that occurred in Peru on July 20, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Incas on the road between Lima and Cuzco collapsed when five people were crossing it. They all fell into the river from a great height and were killed. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was about to cross the bridge himself, witnessed the tragedy. Being deeply pious, he saw in what happened a possible divine providence. Did the dead deserve to have their lives cut short in such a terrible way? The monk tries to learn as much as he can about the five victims, finding and questioning people who knew them. As a result of years of investigation, he compiles a voluminous book with all the evidence he has gathered that the beginning and end of human life are part of God's plan... The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous work. In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
