Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2004
First published:	April 2004
Authors:	Madeleine de Scudery
Dimensions:	155 x 234 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-14404-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-226-14404-6
Barcode:	9780226144047

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