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| Part I: Introduction |
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Writing Straight From the Heart |
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15 | (16) |
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| Part II: Dramatic Works |
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Conspirators and Tyrants in the Plays of Villedieu |
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31 | (12) |
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Staging Foucquet: Historical and Theatrical Contexts of Villedieu's Le Favori |
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43 | (21) |
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Men in Love in the Plays of Mme de Villedieu |
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64 | (23) |
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| Part III: Short Stories, Annals, and Letters |
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Inscribing the Feminine in Seventeenth-Century Narratives: The Case of Madame de Villedieu |
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87 | (24) |
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Secret Writing, Public Reading: Madame de Villedieu's Lettres et billets galants |
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111 | (20) |
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| Part IV: Novelistic Works |
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Les Memoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere |
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Villedieu's Transvestite Text: The Literary Economy of Gender and Genre in Les Memoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere |
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131 | (16) |
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The Play of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Play in the Memoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Moliere |
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147 | (18) |
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Sex, Lies, and Authorship in Villedieu's Les Desordres de l'amour |
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165 | (12) |
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Apprentices and Collaborators: Villedieu's Worldly Readers |
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177 | (26) |
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| Bibliography |
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203 | (7) |
| Contributors |
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210 | (3) |
| Index |
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