Lettres D'Une Peruvienne by Joan Dejean
In this eighteenth-century novel, the Inca princess Zilia is kidnapped by Spanish conquerors, captured by the French after a battle at sea, and taken to Europe.Since 1988, Joan DeJean has served as a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at Yale and Princeton in the past. She being the author of eleven works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, history, and material culture, the most recent of which is How Paris Became Paris: The Creation of the Modern City (2014); The Age of Comfort: When Paris Found Casual--and the Modern Household Started (2009); and The Essence of Style: How the French Created High Fashion, Fine Cuisine, Stylish Cafés, Style, and Sophistry (2009). She lives in Philadelphia and, when in Paris, she stays right around the corner from the house where the story begins in 1612.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780873527774 |
| ISBN 10 | 0873527771 |
| Title | Lettres D'Une Peruvienne |
| Author | Joan Dejean |
| Series | Mla Texts And Translations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Modern Language Association of America |
| Year published | 1993-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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