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| Other authors / contributors: | Paige, Nicholas D.
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| ISBN: | 9780226468440
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances?from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again?with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book?s noble l.
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| Other form: | Print version: La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693. Zaïde. English. Zayde. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006
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