How Long to Read Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature by Dr Marianne Legault

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Description

Examining literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study takes as its premise the view that, unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same sex friendship. The author explores the effect of this homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France. The book consists of three parts: the first surveys the history of male thinkers' denial of female friendship, concluding with a synopsis of the cultural representations of female same-sex practices. The second analyzes female intimacy and homoerotism as imagined, appropriated and finally repudiated by Honoré d'Urfé's pastoral novel, L'Astrée, and Isaac de Benserade's seemingly lesbian-friendly comedy, Iphis et Iante. The third turns to unprecedented depictions of female intimate and homoerotic bonds in Madeleine de Scudéry's novel Mathilde and Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force's fairy tale Plus Belle que Fée. This study reveals a female literary genealogy of intimacies between women in seventeenth-century France, and adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare.

How long is Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature?

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature by Dr Marianne Legault is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature?

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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