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This is a book that is beautifully modulated, gradually piecing together the different, varied and inevitably contrasting viewpoints and engagements of the literati. It focuses our attention on the interlocutors of the literary world - its readers, debaters, translators and aficionados. * Mark Greengrass, English Historical Review * This book is essential reading for historians and literary scholars interested in seventeenth-century France, who will find in it a newly expanded range of writers and intellectuals who mattered at this time, and fresh ways to approach their diverse and fascinating works. * Tom Hamilton, English Historical Review *

The book contains seven thematic chapters that portray in loving detail the literary landscape by stressing an inherent tension between participation in and withdrawal from public life. * Oded Rabinovitch, Journal of Modern History * Robert Schneider's wide-ranging study of how embracing withdrawal from public life led to new ways of thinking, reading, and writing forms a modern parallel with the COVID-19 pandemic. * Adam Horsley, The Seventeenth Century * This is a book that is beautifully modulated, gradually piecing together the different, varied and inevitably contrasting viewpoints and engagements of the literati. It focuses our attention on the interlocutors of the literary world - its readers, debaters, translators and aficionados. * Mark Greengrass, English Historical Review * This book is essential reading for historians and literary scholars interested in seventeenth-century France, who will find in it a newly expanded range of writers and intellectuals who mattered at this time, and fresh ways to approach their diverse and fascinating works. * Tom Hamilton, English Historical Review * An insightful look into how these writers and intellectuals negotiated the social, political, and religious issues of their day and reveals the active role they played in influencing the evolution of the French language and culture...It will be of great interest to both historians and literature scholars specializing in 17th-century France. * Choice *

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Robert A. Schneider received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at Brandeis University, the Catholic University of American, and, since 2005, at Indian University, Bloomington. He has been a visiting professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Bristol University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He has received fellowships from the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the French Government (the Chateaubriand fellowship), and he has been a visiting scholar at All Souls College and Oriel College in Oxford. He has published several books on early modern French history, and was the editor of the American Historical Review from 2005 to 2015.

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