To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France "Contemporary Reactions" includes five assessments of The Princess of Cleves--by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette herself, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Marie de Sevigne, Jean-Baptiste-Henry du Trousset de Valincour, Jean-Antoine de Charnes, and Du Plaisir--following its controversial publication. John Lyons's translations for this Norton Critical Edition make these reactions available in English for the first time "Criticism" includes eleven modern...
To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France "...
