Louis Labe

by Keith Cameron

Although her literary output was small, Louise Labe's reputation is great. Her name is associated with the literary and intellectual forces in Lyons in the 16th century and with that of the growing role of women in society. Her poetry appealed to late Elizabethan England, and a translation of her work by Robert Greene was published in 1584 and again in 1587, 1593 and 1604. Is her celebrity to be attributed to the fact that she was a woman? Was she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854966188
• ISBN13: 9780854966189
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"