Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradiction of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France by Nicholas D. Paige

Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradiction of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France

New Cultural Studies

Nicholas D. Paige

312 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography classics literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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The familiar classical France of splendor, formalism, and conquest had a hidden double, one ruled by the cultural imperative to "be interior," to look inside oneself and to write about what one found. Being Interior explores how seventeenth-centur...

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