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Article: Strategies de romancieres: De 'Clelie' a 'La Princesse de Cleves'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Strategies de romancieres: De 'Clelie' a 'La Princesse de Cleves'. By NICOLE GRANDE. (Lumiere Classique, 20) Paris: Champion. 1999. 497 pp. 430 F.
This weighty thesis is one of an steadily increasing number of works that seek to show that La Princesse de Cleves, which has the lion's share of critical attention, existed in a context and within a tradition themselves worthy of study, shedding new light on that one famous novel itself. Nicole Grande has chosen to examine the life and work of women novelists in a period in which they first began to make their presence felt. Clelie, an admirable opener, is the first novel Madeleine de Scudery composed without her brother ...