Paving the Road to Historical Novel: “Les Histoires Secrètes” in France at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries
This article examines the genre of “secret history” which gained widespread currency in France after the publication of the book Anecdotes of Florence: or, A Secret History of the House of Medici (1685) by Antoine de Varillas. The preface to the book gives an overview of the theory of the genre that...
Main Author: | Andrey V. Golubkov |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2020-12-01
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Series: | Studia Litterarum |
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Online Access: | http://studlit.ru/images/2020-5-4/Golubkov.pdf |
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