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Home / 2012 / November / 16 / Critical Studies professor publishes book on 17th century French female intimacies

Critical Studies professor publishes book on 17th century French female intimacies

By Chris Guenard on November 16, 2012

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature

Marianne Legault, associate professor of French, recently published a new book about literary discourses on female friendship and intimacy in seventeenth-century French literature.

The book takes as its premise the view that unlike men, women have been denied for centuries the possibility of same-sex friendship. Legault explores the effect of this on female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers in seventeenth-century France.

Legault's work in this book adds to the research in lesbian and queer studies, fields in which pre-eighteenth-century French literary texts are rare.

Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature is now available from Ashgate Publishing.

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