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The Story of Sapho (Hardcover)
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The Story of Sapho (Hardcover)
Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
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Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her
protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701) has not been
treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume
novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost
immediately into English, German, Italian, Spanish, and even
Arabic.
"The Story of Sapho" makes available for the first time in modern
English a self-contained section from Scudery's novel "Artamene ou
le Grand Cyrus," best known today as the favored reading material
of the would-be "salonnieres" that Moliere satirized in "Les
precieuses ridicules," The" Story "tells of Sapho, a woman writer
modeled on the Greek Sappho, who deems marriage slavery.
Interspersed in the love story of Sapho and Phaon are a series of
conversations like those that took place in Scudery's own salon in
which Sapho and her circle discuss the nature of love, the
education of women, writing, and right conduct. This edition also
includes a translation of an oration, or "harangue," of Scudery's
in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order
to persuade them to write.
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