Modern Techniques in a Seventeenth-Century Writer focuses on the novelistic techniques used by Anne de la Roche-Guilhen, a seventeenth-century writer. The first in-depth study of its kind, it explores many elements of plot, characterization, and narration. It shows Anne de la Roche-Guilhen’s originality by comparing her treatment of the theme of love to that of Madame de La Fayette and other well-known authors.