Lucrece and Brutus : glory in the land of tender / Madeleine de Scudéry ; edited and translated by Sharon Diane Nell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701, author.

Contributor:

Nell, Sharon Diane, 1955- translator.

Series:

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: the Toronto ; v.84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translations.

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.

Scudéry, Madeleine de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Iter Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The story of the chaste matron Lucretia as told from a feminist perspective by 17th-century French novelist Madeleine de Scudéry in eleven pieces of writing, most of them extracts, from three of her works"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Glory and woman before Clélie : Lucrece and Cloelia in the Femmes illustres (1642)

The language of tender in Clélie, part 1, book 1 (1654)

Lucrece and Brutus in Clélie : glory in the land of tender

Scudéry on glory after Clélie

Appendix A: Lucrece and Brutus : sources from Livy to Augustine and seventeenth-century France

Appendix B: Glossary

Appendix C: List of characters.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64959-023-7