Revising Memory: Women's Fictions and Memoirs in 17th-Century France

by Faith Evelyn Beasley and Faith E. Beasley

In the authorized historical and literary canons, women's activities as agents and writers have all traditionally been assigned to the same critical oblivion. Revising Memory resurrects a particularly dynamic moment in French history when women acted on the political stage and inscribed these often subversive actions in writing. Faith E. Beasley provides close readings of the use and conception of history in some of the primary representatives of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515858
• ISBN13: 9780813515854
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.