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Informationen zum Autor Vicki Mistacco is a specialist of the French novel and of women's writing in French across the centuries. She is professor of French at Wellesley College. Klappentext "Les Femmes et la tradition litteraire," a two-part anthology, offers a sweeping historical overview of women's literature in France from the twelfth century to the present. Generously illustrated and richly annotated, it presents writers such as Helisenne de Crenne, Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Louise Ackermann and Renee Vivien along with more familiar figures including Labe, Lafayette, Sand, Beauvoir, Colette and Duras. In addition to novels, short stories and poetry, it features fairy tales, sentimental and philosophical letters, feminist political and literary manifestos and some medieval and Renaissance selections appearing for the first time in modern French.
"Les femmes et la tradition litteraire," anthologie en deux parties, offre un vaste tableau historique de la litterature feminine en France du XIIe siecle a nos jours. Enrichie de nombreuses illustrations et de commentaires critiques, elle presente des ecrivaines telles que Helisenne de Crenne, Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Louise Ackermann et Renee Vivien aussi bien que des auteurs plus connues comme Labe, Lafayette, Sand, Beauvoir, Colette et Duras. Outre des extraits de romans, des nouvelles et des poemes, elle comprend des contes de fees, des lettres sentimentales et philosophiques, des manifestes politiques et litteraires et des textes du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance paraissant pour la premiere fois en francais moderne.
