Antoine de La Sale’s Petit Jehan de Saintré and the Comte de Tressan Libertinage, gallantry and French identity in an eighteenth-century adaptation

• Publication type: Journal article
• Journal:
  Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
  2015 – 2, n° 30
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• Author: Krueger (Roberta L.)
• Abstract: Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, ­comte de Tressan (1715-1783) recast Antoine de La ­Sale’s Jehan de Saintré (1456) in “miniature” for the Bibliothèque universelle des romans in 1780. Close analysis of the ­author’s substantial revisions – cuts, explanatory footnotes, character development, narratorial interventions, and explicit reworkings of the plot – shows how Tressan refashioned a medieval courtly fiction to appeal to a broad range of eighteenth-century readers.
• Pages: 329 to 351
• Journal: Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies
• CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
• EAN: 9782812460982
• ISBN: 978-2-8124-6098-2
• ISSN: 2273-0893
• DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6098-2.p.0329
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Online publication: 04-04-2016
• Periodicity: Biannual
• Language: French

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