Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615

by Julie Campbell

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and Roger Caillois, who argue that play is critically intertwined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463728651
• ISBN13: 9789463728652
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"