Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443828688 ISBN 13: 9781443828680

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

In 1756 Charlotte Lennox, already a celebrated novelist she had just published her most renowned work, The Female Quixote, a year before translated from the original French one of the most successful novels written by Madame Claudine Gérin, the marquise de Tencin, Mémoires du comte de Comminge (1735). At the time, Madame de Tencin was a controversial public figure, an intellectual woman and one of the most distinguished salonnières in eighteenth-century France. Although Tencin s name as the authoress of the novel was kept secret until after her death, notwithstanding the outstanding success of her Mémoires, Charlotte Lennox knew that the novel had been penned by a woman and decided to translate it and later serialize it in her feminist magazine The Lady s Museum, a periodical wholly devoted to women s literary and cultural education. Lennox s translation of Tencin s short novel is here reprinted for the first time after two centuries with critical notes and an introduction, in an edition that takes into account a close comparison between Lennox s translation and Madame de Tencin s original French version, and analyses all the variations and addenda that appeared in Lennox s own version of The History of the Count de Comminge.

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About the Author

Marianna D Ezio completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Rome Sapienza and has been Adjunct Professor of English in several Italian universities (Cassino, Perugia and Rome). She lives and works in Italy, where she also worked as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California Rome Study Center. Her research interests focus on eighteenth-century literature and travel writing, with special attention to women writers. She has participated in many conferences worldwide and has published several articles on eighteenth-century women travelling to Italy as well as miscellaneous articles on various topics. She edited a collection of essays entitled Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century (2008) for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and wrote a monograph on Hester Piozzi (Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity, 2010). She also wrote a grammar book of English for Italian speakers (Mondadori 2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1443828688
• ISBN 13: 9781443828680
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 65
• Editor: Marianna D’Ezio