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- Title
POLYPHONY AND PERSUASION IN DE GOUGES'S MEMOIRE DE MADAME DE VALMONT.
- Authors
Sherman, Carol
- Abstract
A literary criticism is presented of the French 18th-century epistolary novel "Mémoire de Madame de Valmont sur I'ingratitude et la cruauté de la famille des Flaucourt avec la sienne dont les sieurs de Flaucourt ont reçu tant de services" (Memorandum by Madame de Valmont on the ungratefulness and cruelty of the Flaucourt family with hers, from whom the sires of Flaucourt have received so many services), by Olympe de Gouges, often referred to simply as "Mémoire de Madame de Valmont." It explores the novel's use of redundancy, verity, and persuasion.
- Subjects
MEMOIRE de Madame de Valmont sur I'ingratitude et la cruaute de la famille des Flaucourt avec la sienne dont les sieurs de Flaucourt ont recu tant de services (Book); DE Gouges, Olympe, 1748-1793; FRENCH women novelists; FRENCH epistolary fiction; 18TH century French literature; PERSUASION (Rhetoric) in literature; FRENCH literature; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 2009, Vol 6, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
1544-9009
- Publication type
Literary Criticism