The story of Sapho / Madeleine de Scudery ; translated and with an introduction by Karen Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.

Contributor:

Newman, Karen, 1949-

Series:

Other voice in early modern Europe.

The other voice in early modern Europe

Standardized Title:

Artamène. English. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scudery, Madeleine de, 1607-1701. Artamene.

Scudery, Madeleine de.

French literature--17th century--Translations into English.

French literature.

Women--France--Social conditions--17th century--Fiction.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost immediately into English, German, Italian, Spanish, and even Arabic. The Story of Sapho makes available for the first time in modern English a self-contained section from Scudéry's novel Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the would-be salonnières that Molière satirized in Les précieuses ridicules. The Story tells of Sapho, a woman writer modeled on the Greek Sappho, who deems marriage slavery. Interspersed in the love story of Sapho and Phaon are a series of conversations like those that took place in Scudéry's own salon in which Sapho and her circle discuss the nature of love, the education of women, writing, and right conduct. This edition also includes a translation of an oration, or harangue, of Scudéry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Series Editors' Introduction

Volume Editor's Introduction

The Story of Sapho

The Twentieth Harangue from Les femmes illustres; ou, Les harangues héröıques

Volume Editor's Bibliography

Series Editors' Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155).

ISBN:

9786611125462

9781281125460

1281125466

9780226144009

0226144003

OCLC:

476229779