Letters from a Peruvian woman / Françoise de Graffigny ; translated by David Kornacker ; introduction by Joan DeJean and Nancy K. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Texts and translations. Translations ; 2.

Texts and translations. Translations ; 2

Standardized Title:

Lettres d'une Péruvienne. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

France--Social life and customs--18th century--Fiction.

France.

Manners and customs.

Peruvians--France--Fiction.

Peruvians.

Women--France--Fiction.

Women.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 174 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1993.

Summary:

One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Letters from a Peruvian Woman appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publication in 1747. In the novel the Inca princess Zilia is kidnapped by Spanish conquerors, captured by the French alter a battle at sea, and taken to Europe. She describes her experiences in a series of letters to the prince she was to have married in Peru. Graffigny's brilliant novel offered a bold critique of French society, delivered one of the most vehement feminist protests in eighteenth-century literature, and announced -- fourteen years before Rousseau's Julie, or the New Eloise -- the Romantic tradition in French literature. This new edition is the first English translation in almost two hundred years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

087352778X

OCLC:

28965766