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

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. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction « 1 » Seventeenth-Century Guides to Interaction « 2 » Excess and Euphoria in Madeleine de Scudéry's "Conversations" « 3 » History, Social Identity, Talk: The Writings of Bussy-Rabutin « 4 » Sociability and Intimacy in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné « 5 » Teaching Sociability Through Literature: The Works of Edme Boursault Afterword Selected Bibliography Index