Deborah Steinberger


Research Interests:

17th-Century French and comparative literature
Theater
Early modern women writers


Major Publications:

Critical Edition of Françoise Pascal’s Le Commerce du Parnasse (1669).Exeter, U.K.:University of Exeter Press, 2001.
“Gender Politics of the correspondance galante: Françoise Pascal, Anne-Marie de la Vigne, Catherine Bernard.”To appear in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 145 (2002) 13-21.
“Profiting from Scandal: The Case of La Devineresse.”To appear in Cahiers du Dix-Septième 9:1(2001).

“The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Visé’s L’Embarras de Godard, ou l’Accouchée.”In Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period.Ed. Naomi Yavneh and Naomi Miller.Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

“Françoise Pascal, Le Commerce du Parnasse,” translation of selections from this work, with critical introduction and notes.In Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women.Ed. Colette Winn and Anne Larsen.New York: Garland Press, 2000.

“Spectacles of Intimacy: A New Look at the comédie larmoyante.” L’Esprit Créateur 39:3 (Fall 1999) 64-75.

“Wit and Wisdom in Françoise Pascal’s Le Commerce du Parnasse,” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature 101 (1997) 231-238.

“The Song of Rolland: An Interpretation of Freud’s ‘A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis.’” American Imago 54 (Spring 1997) 69-80.

“Molière and the Domestication of French Comedy: Public and Private Space in L’Ecole des femmes.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième 6: 2 (1996) 131-139.



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