'In Her Own Fashion': Marie de Gournay and the Fabrication of the Writer's Persona

Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) was bold. Following a profound, epiphanic experience while reading Montaigne's Essais, she would turn the despair of a young woman, ambitiously seeking her own voice, into literary performances as part of a continuous exercise of staging herself. Indeed, she would f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ring Freeman, Wendy Lynn
Other Authors: Leibacher-Ouvrard, Lise
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194459