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Dignified retreat : writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu / Robert A. Schneider

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Schneider, Robert Alan
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustration (black and white).
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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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ISBN
9780191865275 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
This edition originally published: 2019.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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