| Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues Contributor(s): Scudery, Madeleine De (Author), Donawerth, Jane (Translator), Strongson, Julie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226144038 ISBN-13: 9780226144030 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: Madeleine de Scudery (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 Scudery's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudery'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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 843.7 |
| LCCN: 2003023250 |
| Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.22" W x 9.24" (0.93 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |