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A collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French
woman author. Comprising texts by Madeleine de Scudery, including
many from her novel Clelie, this volume focuses on the story of
Lucretia, the Roman matron whose rape and suicide led to the
downfall of the Roman monarchy. Through her work, Scudery seeks to
contrast the enormous cultural contributions of women with their
physical vulnerability and to propose an alternative to sexual
violation, as envisioned on the Map of the Land of Tender that
charts an imaginary land in the novel and outlines a path toward
love. In Scudery's version of this tale, Lucrece and her beloved,
Brutus, follow the path of tender friendship. Scudery contradicts
history's characterization of Lucrece as craving glory in the form
of fame. Indeed, contrary to ancient sources, Lucrece's glory will
be her decision to sacrifice herself secretly for her tender
friend.
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.
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.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryN029846In fact by Madel ne
de Scud ry. In three parts, each of three books, but disposed in
four sections each having separate pagination and register, as
follows: part I; part II; part III, book 1; and part III, books 2
and 3.London: printed by J. M. for Thomas Dring, 1702. 2],225,
1];267, 1];107, 1];76p.; 2
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT085558In fact by Madelne de Scudry.London:
printed, and are sold by T. Tebb at the Flower de Luce in Little
Britain; T. Varnam and J. Osborne, in Lombard-street; N. Cliffe and
D. Jackson, at the Bible and 3 Crowns in Cheapside; and J. Graves
in St. James's Street, 1714. 12], 204 p.: ill.; 12
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