Literary History Meets the History of Reading: The Case of La Princesse de Clèves and Its (Non)readers.
This article revisits the letters written by readers of the Mercure galant who responded to the "gallant question," posed by the periodical's editor in an April 1678 issue, regarding a central plot twist of Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves. Highlighting the expansive, democratic, a...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 427 - 448 |
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