La Galanterie comme mode de vie: Amour, civilite et mariage dans Melite ou Les Fausses lettres de Pierre Corneille in Bloomington, MN

Reading Pierre Corneille's Melite ou Les Fausses lettres (1629) in the light of the history and the theory of gender and sexuality highlights the historical and socio-political structure of seventeenth-century French gallantry.