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Article: Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Philip Lewis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 300 pp. $39.50. ISBN: n.a.
Philip Lewis presents his work in two parts, or rather in two directions that could have continued to remain separate fields and hence destroy the unity of his study but which, as he has shown, turn out to be complementary. Reminding the reader of Perrault's central position at the court of Louis XIV, Lewis insists on Perrault the "courtisan" of the early years. The Perrault of the Carrousel of 1662, as well as the one at the heart of the debate between the Anciens and the Modernes is what Lewis bases his study on at the beginning of his work. It is there that the author analyzes the ...