Hélisenne de Crenne | Anne R. Larsen (essay date 1982)
Anne R. Larsen (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: Larsen, Anne R. “The Rhetoric of Self-Defense in Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent damours (Part One).” Kentucky Romance Quarterly 29, no. 3 (1982): 235-43.
[In the following essay, Larsen analyzes de Crenne's apologetic and combative intent in Les Angoysses douloureuses, exploring the author's portrayal of herself as a victim of love and her conception of writing as a self-justifying act.]
Recent criticism on Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent damours (1538), the first French sentimental novel, has centered on its structure. Against the view that it is without unity,1 several critics have sought to discern a dominant intention which explains the shifts in the narration and the subject-matter of its three parts. Thus Paule Demats in her edition of Les Angoysses, (Part One)2 has argued that Helisenne de Crenne3 wrote the...
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