Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Marguerite d’Auge, The Pitiful and Macabre Regrets, 1600 29
Renée Burlamacchi, Memoirs Concerning Her Father’s Family, 1623
43
Jeanne du Laurens, The Genealogy of the du Laurens, 1631 55
Chronology 81
Bibliography 85
Index 93
Colette H. Winn, professor of French at Washington University in
St. Louis, specializes in editing early modern writings by
women.
Nicholas Van Handel holds a BA in Linguistics and Romance Languages
and Literatures from Washington University in St. Louis.
These quite disparate texts by three women writers, none well known
(although in two cases, their husbands certainly are), offer
rare and engaging historical perspectives. A serious
and well-informed study preceding the translations features
close textual readings as well as references to pertinent
critical articles and approaches. Richly recounting the contexts of
the different “texts on sin and salvation,” the introduction
poses important questions regarding gender, literary genre,
male-female relations in early modern France, attitudes toward
sin and salvation, self-representation, and the depiction of
history. This scholarly accomplishment will provide an
impressive academic resource for a wide range of readers.Cathy
Yandell
W. I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature,
Language, and Culture Chair, Department of French and
Francophone Studies, Carleton College
“These quite disparate texts by three women writers, none well
known (although in two cases, their husbands certainly are), offer
rare and engaging historical perspectives. A serious and
well-informed study preceding the translations features close
textual readings as well as references to pertinent critical
articles and approaches. Richly recounting the contexts of the
different 'texts on sin and salvation,' the introduction poses
important questions regarding gender, literary genre, male-female
relations in early modern France, attitudes toward sin and
salvation, self-representation, and the depiction of history. This
scholarly accomplishment will provide an impressive academic
resource for a wide range of readers.”
*Cathy Yandell, Carleton College*
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