French as language of intimacy in the Modern Age = Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine / edited by Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau and Marie-Christine Kok Escalle.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • French
Published/​Created
  • Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles

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Series
Languages and culture in history [More in this series]
Summary note
For centuries, French was the language of international commercial and diplomatic relations, a near-dominant language in literature and poetry, and was widely used in teaching. It even became the fashionable language of choice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for upper class Dutch, Russians, Italians, Egyptians, and others for personal correspondence, travel journals, and memoirs. This book is the first to take a close look at how French was used in that latter context: outside of France, in personal and private life. It gathers contributions from historians, literary scholars, and linguists and covers a wide range of geographical areas.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on print version record.
Language note
Texts in English and French.
Contents
  • Frontmatter
  • Languages and Culture in History
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction / Escalle Kok, Marie-Christine / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van
  • 1. Le français langue seconde, langue de la relation intime, de la relation à soi et à l'autre / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van / Escalle, Marie-Christine Kok
  • Part I From French as a Language of the Bilingual Netherlands to the 'Language of Universality' in a Wider Europe (Sixteenth
  • Eighteenth Centuries) Du français langue du bilinguisme aux Pays-Bas à la 'langue de l'universalité' dans l'Europe élargie (seizième
  • dix-huitième siècles)
  • 2. Vertu versus Deugd / Reinders, Sophie
  • 3. Correspondance de Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834) avec sa mère Carolina van Haren (1741-1812) / Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van
  • 4. Le français langue de l'intime dans la correspondance de la comtesse d'Albany / Piselli, Francesca
  • 5 Seduction, Introspection, Experimentation / Isenberg, Nancy
  • Part II The Use of French as a Second Language: From Continuity to Geographical Growth (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) De l'utilisation du français langue seconde. De la continuité à l'expansion géographique (dix-neuvième
  • vingtième siècles)
  • 6. The French Language in the Diaries of Olga Davydova / Debrenne, Michèle
  • 7. Les Souvenirs du jeune Harco Hora Siccama (1854-1858) / Escalle, Marie-Christine Kok
  • 8. Intimate' Notes from Hell / Güven, Hanife / Güven, Devrim Çetin
  • 9. Writing in French / Öztürk, Banu
  • Index
Other title(s)
Français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine
ISBN
  • 9789048529988 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9048529980 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
995358749
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