TY - BOOK AU - La Fayette AU - Paige,Nicholas D. TI - Zayde: a Spanish romance T2 - The other voice in early modern Europe SN - 9780226468440 (electronic bk.) AV - PQ1805.L5 A7813 2006eb U1 - 843/.4 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - La Fayette, KW - Love KW - French literature KW - 17th century KW - Translations into English KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=212661 ER -