The place of exile: leisure literature and the limits of absolutism

"The Place of Exile is a study of the margins, whether real or imagined, of absolutist culture in seventeenth-century France. Juliette Cherbuliez follows the novel and related genres through an ever-widening territory of disaffection from the center of absolutism at Louis XIV's first court to Europe's international communities of refugees. The Place of Exile explores the effects of exclusion on literary creation at its symbolic, narrative, and material levels."--Jacket.