Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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