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Selected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues / Madeleine de Scudery ; edited and translated by Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.
- Series:
- Other voice in early modern Europe.
- Other voice in early modern Europe
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 2004
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scudery, Madeleine de, 1607-1701. Selections.
- Scudery, Madeleine de.
- French literature--17th century.
- French literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her writing and defended women's education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's Amorous Letters, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her Famous Women, or Heroic Speeches, and her series of Conversations. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
- VOLUME EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
- VOLUME EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY
- MODEL LETTERS FROM "AMOROUS LETTERS "(1641)
- FICTIONAL ORATIONS FROM "FAMOUS WOMEN"(1665)
- RHETORICAL DIALOGUES
- SERIES EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-43) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611125479
- 9781281125477
- 1281125474
- 9780226144122
- 0226144127
- OCLC:
- 476229104
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