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The Perraults

A Family of Letters in Early Modern France

Rabinovitch, Oded

The Perraults

The Perraults

A Family of Letters in Early Modern France

The Perraults

 

"This book shows how the family strategy of the Perraults interacted with their literary and scientific projects, leading to a revision of our image of the major cultural institutions of the seventeenth century"-

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Beschrijving The Perraults

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one...

ISBN
9781501729423
Pagina's
252
Verschenen
NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
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