Rape and Writing in the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre

by Patricia Francis Cholakian

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549), the sister of the French king Fran ois I, composed the Heptam ron as a complex collection of seventy-two novellas, creating one of the first examples of realistic, psychological fiction in French literature. These novellas, framed by debates among ten storytellers, all noble lords and ladies, reveal the author's desire to depart from the purely masculine voice of the age.

Cholakian contends that this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809317087
• ISBN13: 9780809317080
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"