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A Trip to the Country - By Henriette-Julie De Castelnau, Comtesse De Murat (Paperback)
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A Trip to the Country - By Henriette-Julie De Castelnau, Comtesse De Murat (Paperback)
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Popular with the worldly aristocracy, late seventeenth-century
experimental novels like the Countess de Murat's Voyage de campagne
(A Trip to the Country) were published in small format, widely
circulated, and reprinted more frequently than any other type of
fiction both in France and abroad. Murat's hybrid work, built
around a humorous frame narrative, details a trip to a pristine
country estate taken by seven Parisian aristocrats and contains
interpolated examples of the period's most popular literary
forms--including seven ghost stories, seven autobiographical
anecdotes, one literary fairy tale, one rondeau, two gallant poems,
two love letters, and eleven proverb comedies. In this translation
of A Trip to the Country, editors Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman
present the entire work in the English language for the first time.
The editors follow the original 1699 edition as closely as possible
to preserve the syntax, word choice, and other lively, readable
qualities that were appreciated by the novel's first readers.
Modern readers will value the editors' extensive footnotes to the
text that offer additional definitions, historical referents, and
notes on form and structure. An extensive introduction by Allison
Stedman also draws connections between the late seventeenth-century
experimental novel and the rise of the literary fairy-tale genre in
France to provide a valuable context for students and scholars of
the field. Gethner and Stedman offer an accessible and informative
translation of A Trip to the Country that will appeal to students
and teachers of fairy-tale studies and those interested in the
history of French literature.
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