La Vie de Marianne (The life of Marianne: or, the adventures of the Countess of ***) is an unfinished novel by Pierre de Marivaux and illustrated by Jakob van der Schley.
The novel was written in sections, eleven of which appeared between 1731 and 1745. A Continuation was produced by Madame Riccoboni, but this too is incomplete.
Bibliography
- Maria Rosaria Ansalone, Una Donna, una vita, un romanzo : saggio su âÂÂLa Vie de Marianneâ di Marivaux, Fasano: Schena, 1985.
- Patrick Brady, Structuralist perspectives in criticism of fiction : essays on Manon Lescaut and La Vie de Marianne, Bern; Las Vegas: P. Lang, 1978.
- Patrick Brady, Rococo Style versus enlightenment novel : with essays on Lettres persanes, La Vie de Marianne, Candide, La Nouvelle Héloïse, Le Neveu de Rameau, Geneva, Slatkine, 1984.
- Peter Brooks, The Novel of worldliness; Crébillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1969.
- David Coward, Marivaux, La Vie de Marianne and Le paysan parvenu, London: Grant & Cutler, 1982.
- Anne Deneys-Tunney, ÃÂcritures du corps : de Descartes ÃÂ Laclos, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1992 .
- Béatrice Didier, La Voix de Marianne : essai sur Marivaux, Paris: J. Corti, 1987 .
- Annick Jugan, Les Variations du récit dans La Vie de Marianne de Marivaux, Paris: Klincksieck, 1978.
- Marie-Paule Laden, Self-imitation in the eighteenth-century novel, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987 .
- Leo Spitzer, Alban K. Forcione, Herbert Samuel Lindenberger, et al. Representative essays, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988 .
- Theodore E. D. Braun, John A. McCarthy, Disrupted patterns : on chaos and order in the Enlightenment, Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000 .
- Nancy K. Miller, The Heroine's text: readings in the French and English novel, 1722-1782, New York: Columbia University Press, 1980 .
- Annie Rivara, Les SÃ
Âurs de Marianne : suites, imitations, variations, 1731-1761, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1991 .
- Philip Stewart, Half-told tales : Dilemmas of meaning in three French novels, Chapel Hill: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1987 .
- Loïc Thommeret, La Mémoire créatrice. Essai sur lâÂÂécriture de soi au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: LâÂÂHarmattan, 2006, .
- Arnold L. Weinstein, Fictions of the self, 1550-1800, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981 .
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