Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Galanterieand the Art of Listening Chapter 1: What Women Want Chapter 2: Befriending the Female Reader: Tales of Female Friendship in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 3: Girls with Guns: Women Soldiers’ Stories in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 4: True Crime? Women and Violence in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 5: Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles: Conversion Stories in Le Mercure Galant’s Anti-Protestant Propaganda Epilogue: Buying In or Selling Out? Reading Le Mercure Galant Today Bibliography Index

Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Galanterieand the Art of Listening Chapter 1: What Women Want Chapter 2: Befriending the Female Reader: Tales of Female Friendship in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 3: Girls with Guns: Women Soldiers’ Stories in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 4: True Crime? Women and Violence in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 5: Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles: Conversion Stories in Le Mercure Galant’s Anti-Protestant Propaganda Epilogue: Buying In or Selling Out? Reading Le Mercure Galant Today Bibliography Index

Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Galanterieand the Art of Listening Chapter 1: What Women Want Chapter 2: Befriending the Female Reader: Tales of Female Friendship in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 3: Girls with Guns: Women Soldiers’ Stories in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 4: True Crime? Women and Violence in Le Mercure Galant Chapter 5: Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles: Conversion Stories in Le Mercure Galant’s Anti-Protestant Propaganda Epilogue: Buying In or Selling Out? Reading Le Mercure Galant Today Bibliography Index