Exclusive Conversations: The Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France

by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Genres: History

194 pages, Hardcover

Published April 29, 1988

About the author

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith is a professor of French and director of the study abroad curriculum at Boston University. She has written books on literature in the age of Louis XIV, focusing on letter correspondences and women's writing. She teaches courses on seventeenth-century theater and the novel, travel writing, and historical fiction.

Reviews

[Sherwood Smith]

This first-rate book delves into the history of the French salon during its first century.