Novel upbringings: education and gender in Choisy and La Fayette.(Francois-Timoleon, abbe de Choisy, Marie-Madeline de La Fayette)

The Romanic Review | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Reflecting on the various developments in novelistic convention and vraisemblance that had taken place in the half-century between the publication of d'Urfe's pastoral romance L'Astree and La Fayette's masterpiece La Princesse de Cleves, critic Mitchell Greenberg ponders how many readers of the latter work "would not be disconcerted were the Duc de Nemours to appear at the engagement ball dressed in drag?". (1) In his positing of the Princesse's dance with Nemours as "emblematic of what I will call the scenario of Classical desire," Greenberg implies that late ...

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