• Interview with Professor Faith Beasley, conducted in English by Professor Jean-Vincent Blanchard (2021) 20m11s

Interview with Professor Faith Beasley

From La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age by Edited by Hélène E. Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, David Harrison, and Hélène Visentin

  • Faith Beasley, Professor of French at Dartmouth College, discusses how the insights of feminist criticism have changed the way that La Princesse de Clèvesis read and interpreted. Beasley describes the literary salon culture of seventeenth-century France, the concept of vraisemblance (plausibility) in French literature, and how to interpret the Princesse's actions at the end of the novel.
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  • FICTION / Historical/Renaissance
  • FIC101000 FICTION / World Literature / France / General
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  • 2021
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