商品簡介
"The exterior without the interior is nothing" noted Louis XIV in his memoirs, illustrating that the cultural imperative of self-examination was the flip side of ostentatious classical France. In tracing the emergence of French autobiography as a mediation between subjective and exterior worlds, Paige (French, U. of California, Berkeley) examines the rarely mined religious writings of the period (e.g., a Jesuit exorcist's inner journey) much of it by women. The author argues that categories like inner experience and "the circulation of privacy" in autobiography, despite their frictions (as part two is titled), reflect the modern mentality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Nicholas D. Paige teaches French at the University of California, Berkeley.
