A trip to the country

Resource Information

The work A trip to the country represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

A trip to the country

Statement of responsibility

by Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Comtesse de Murat ; edited and translated by Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman ; introduction by Allison Stedman

Creator

• Murat, Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de, 1670-1716

Contributor

• Stedman, Allison, 1974-
• Gethner, Perry

Subject

• Country life -- France -- Fiction
• Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

"Popular with the worldly aristocracy, late seventeenth-century experimental novels like the Countess de Murat's Voyage de campagne (A Trip to the Country) were published in small format, widely circulated, and reprinted more frequently than any other type of fiction both in France and abroad. Murat's hybrid work, built around a humorous frame narrative, details a trip to a pristine country estate taken by seven Parisian aristocrats and contains interpolated examples of the period's most popular literary forms--including seven ghost stories, seven autobiographical anecdotes, one literary fairy tale, one rondeau, two gallant poems, two love letters, and eleven proverb comedies. In this translation of A Trip to the Country, editors Perry Gethner and Allison Stedman present the entire work in the English language for the first time. The editors follow the original 1699 edition as closely as possible to preserve the syntax, word choice, and other lively, readable qualities that were appreciated by the novel's first readers. Modern readers will value the editors' extensive footnotes to the text that offer additional definitions, historical referents, and notes on form and structure. An extensive introduction by Allison Stedman also draws connections between the late seventeenth-century experimental novel and the rise of the literary fairy-tale genre in France to provide a valuable context for students and scholars of the field. Gethner and Stedman offer an accessible and informative translation of A Trip to the Country that will appeal to students and teachers of fairy-tale studies and those interested in the history of French literature."--Publisher's website

Member of

• Voyage de campagne
• Series in fairy-tale studies

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

843/.4

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ1875.M8

LC item number

V6913 2011

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Series in fairy-tale studies