French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age : : Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine / / ed. by Madeleine Strien-Chardonneau, Marie-Christine Kok Escalle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• MitwirkendeR: Debrenne, Michèle,; Escalle, Marie-Christine Kok,; Güven, Devrim Çetin,; Güven, Hanife,; Isenberg, Nancy,; Kok Escalle, Marie-Christine,; Piselli, Francesca,; Reinders, Sophie,; Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine van,; Öztürk, Banu,
• HerausgeberIn: Kok Escalle, Marie-Christine,; Strien-Chardonneau, Madeleine,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Languages and culture in history ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 12 halftones

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Languages and Culture in History -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Le français langue seconde, langue de la relation intime, de la relation à soi et à l'autre -- 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 -- 3. Correspondance de Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834) avec sa mère Carolina van Haren (1741-1812) -- 4. Le français langue de l'intime dans la correspondance de la comtesse d'Albany -- 5 Seduction, Introspection, Experimentation -- 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 -- 7. Les Souvenirs du jeune Harco Hora Siccama (1854-1858) -- 8.Intimate' Notes from Hell -- 9. Writing in French -- Index