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Project

At the Origins of French modernity: the literary and cultural roots of the Préciosité and Salon literature in the first half of the 17th century
Code
01N00614
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 October 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
history of mentality modernity History of French literature préciosité- Classicism History of women
 
Project description

This project analyses the roots of one of the most important phenomena in the history of France and of its literature, a phenomenon that led to Classicism and French modernity: préciosité.