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: MLA, 2011.

Critical Editions of Françoise Pascal’s Sésostris and Le Vieillard amoureux. In Théâtre de femmes de l’Ancien Régime, vol. 2.Ed. Aurore Évain, Henriette Goldwyn and Perry Gethner. Saint Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint Étienne, 2008.

 

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.”  Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 145 (2002) 13-21.

 
“Profiting from Scandal: The Case of La Devineresse.”  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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