The satire of the Salonnière: women and humour in Seventeenth-Century France
This article reassesses styles of humour in the literary output of seventeenth-century French salons by attending to women and satire. While scholarship has repeatedly dwelt on salons and salon hostesses as objects of satire, this study argues that salon hostesses were also writers of satire, and im...
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Liverpool University Press
2022
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