Zayde [electronic resource] : a Spanish romance / Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette ; edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Other voice in early modern EuropePublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 210 p.) : ill., mapISBN: - 9780226468440 (electronic bk.)
- 0226468445 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226468518 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226468518 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226468525 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226468526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Zaïde. English
- 843/.4 22
- PQ1805.L5 A7813 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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