1st Edition
Women’s Stories in Le Mercure Galant (1672-1710) Feminine Fictions in an Early French Periodical
By Deborah Steinberger
Copyright 2024
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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What do women want to read? Jean Donneau de Visé, the founder and editor in chief of Le Mercure Galant , one of France’s first newspapers, was arguably the first journalist to ask this question and to recognize and capitalize upon the influence of female readers and their social networks. By including “custom content” and performing the act of listening to women, Le Mercure Galant situates... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. What Women Want, 2. Befriending the Female Reader, 3. Girls with Guns, 4. True Crime?, 5. Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.
