Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Chicago Series

by Madeleine de Scudéry, Jane Donawerth (Translator), Julie Strongson (Translator)

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.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Madeleine de Scudéry, often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry, but is generally regarded as his superior in skill.

Madeleine de Scudéry, sœur cadette de Georges de Scudéry, morte à Paris le 2 juin 1701, était une femme de lettres française.

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[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

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