1st Edition

Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615

By Julie Campbell Copyright 2023
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and... Read more
Acknowledgments, Note on the Text, List of Illustrations, Introduction, 1. At Play in Italy and France: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Social Continuities, 2. Marie-Catherine de Pierrevive and the Dames des Roches: Proto-Salon Entertainment in Lyon and Poitiers, 3. Antoinette de Loynes and Madeleine de l'Aubespine: Entertainment among the Parisian 'Noblesse de robe', 4. Claude-Catherine de Clermont: Amusement and Escapism among the 'Noblesse d'épée' and Royal Milieu, 5. Marguerite de Valois and Proto-'Précieuse' Taste, 6. 'L'Histoire de La Chiaramonte': A 'Divertissement' for the Circle of Marguerite de Valois, Conclusion: Sixteenth-Century 'Société Mondaine' and the Persistence of Entertainment Practices, Appendix: Estienne Pasquier and His Social Network, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Julie D. Campbell is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Premodern Global Studies Minor at Eastern Illinois University. She is a co-editor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her research focuses on transnational contexts for early modern women writers. She is the author of Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2006) and the editor and translator of Isabella Andreini’s pastoral tragicomedy, La Mirtilla (ACMRS, 2002). With Anne R. Larsen, she has edited and contributed to Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Ashgate, 2009). With Maria Galli Stampino, she has edited and contributed to In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary and Social Contexts for Women’s Writing, The Other Voice Series (ITER Press, 2011). With Pamela Brown and Eric Nicholson, she has edited and translated Isabella Andreini’s Lovers’ Debates for the Stage: A Bilingual Edition, The Other Voice Series (ITER Press, 2022).