Deborah Steinberger
Research Interests:
17th-Century French and comparative literature
Theater
Early modern women writers
Le Mercure Galant and early modern French journalism
Major Publications:
“Women and Men Writing about Love: An Approach to Teaching Seventeenth-Century French Literature.” In Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers, ed. Faith Beasley (New York: Modern Language Association). Forthcoming in 2008.
“Profiting from Scandal: The
Case of La Devineresse.” Cahiers du Dix-Septième 9:1(2003).
“Gender Politics of the correspondance
galante: Françoise Pascal, Anne-Marie de la Vigne, Catherine Bernard.”
In Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 145 (2002) 13-21.
Critical Edition of Françoise
Pascal’s Le Commerce du Parnasse (1669). Exeter, U.K.:University of Exeter Press, 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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