Zayde: a Spanish romance
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Main Author: La Fayette, Madame de, (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2006
Series:Other voice in early modern Europe
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 210 p.)
ISBN:0226468445
9780226468440

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