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A panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century France, drawing on the writings of over 100 men and women of letters, 'the generation of 1630', to understand the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of the literary culture of French classicism.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Reforming French: The Making of a Movement
- 2: Aristocrats and Writers: The Emergence of a Parisian 'World'
- 3: A Culture of Discretion
- 4: Richelieu and Writers
- 5: The Rambouillet Salon: 'A Purified World'
- 6: The Dupuy Cabinet: 'An Innocent Refuge'
- 7: Writing Otium: Retreat as a Mode of Engagement
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
About the author
Robert A. Schneider received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Brandeis University, the Catholic University of American, and, since 2005, at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Bristol University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He has received fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the French Government (the Chateaubriand fellowship), and he has been a visiting scholar at All Souls College and Oriel College in Oxford. He has published several books on early modern French history, and was the editor of the American Historical Review from 2005 to 2015.
Summary
A panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in seventeenth-century France, drawing on the writings of over 100 men and women of letters, 'the generation of 1630', to understand the rise and refinement of the French language and the development of the literary culture of French classicism.
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An insightful look into how these writers and intellectuals negotiated the social, political, and religious issues of their day and reveals the active role they played in influencing the evolution of the French language and culture...It will be of great interest to both historians and literature scholars specializing in 17th-century France.
