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Dignified retreat : writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu /

Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period that not only witnessed the recovery of the country following these wars, and the emergence of a stro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Robert Alan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, > duc de, > 1585-1642.
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, > duc de, > 1585-1642
French literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > France > History > 17th century.
France > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Littérature française > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
HISTORY.
France.
Renaissance.
Social History.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
French literature
Intellectual life
Literature and society
France
1600-1699
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reforming French: the making of a movement
  • Aristocrats and writers: the emergence of a Parisian "world"
  • A culture of discretion
  • Richelieu and writers
  • The Rambouillet salon: "a purified world"
  • The Dupuy cabinet: "an innocent refuge"
  • Writing otium: retreat as a mode of engagement
  • Conclusion
  • Selected bibliography of primary sources
  • Index.