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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"French salons"”.
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… and artistic performance in seventeenth-century French salons, and the representation of this aristocratic culture through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal distinctive constraints and …
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Regards sur l’Être et le Paraitre dans Trois Portraits du XVIIe Siècle
Introduced in French Salons as a parlor game, the literary portrait appears in mid Seventeenth-Century. It is similar to the literary portraits inserted in Roman à clé but it does not hide the identity of the subject behind a pseudonym, it depicts the individual as is. In a self-portrait subjects …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… romances by two women, one English, one French, aims to illumine the early modern mapping of womanhood from a female perspective. Part one examines the discourse of virtuous women in the patriarchal societies of Urania and Clélie. Adopting an approach based on close stylistic analysis, I …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
Abstract Annalisa Nicholson: The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London This thesis examines the history and literary output of the Mazarin salon, which was formed by French exiles Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Established in London in …