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Zayde

La Fayette, Madame de 1634-1693.

Zayde a Spanish romance / [electronic resource] : Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette ; edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige. - University of Chicago Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (xxix, 210 p.) : ill., map. - The other voice in early modern Europe . - Other voice in early modern Europe. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances?from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again?with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book?s noble l.

9780226468440 (electronic bk.) 0226468445 (electronic bk.) 9780226468518 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226468518 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226468525 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226468526 (pbk. : alk. paper)


La Fayette, Madame de 1634-1693. Zaïde.
La Fayette, Madame de, 1634-1693


Love.
French literature--17th century--Translations into English.
French literature--17th century.
Electronic books.


Electronic books.

PQ1805.L5 / A7813 2006eb

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