Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - Hardcover

Scudery, Madeleine De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226144038 ISBN 13: 9780226144030

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jane Donawerth is a professor of English and affiliate faculty in women's studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Sixteenth-Century Study of Language, and most recently, editor of Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900: An Anthology. Julie Strongson, a specialist in French and English comparative literature, is an instructor at the University of Maryland.

Review

Best Translation of 2004Society for the Study of Early Modern Women  
  (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women 2005-10-14)

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226144038
• ISBN 13: 9780226144030
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200