| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 155 pages) |
| Series |
The other voice in early modern Europe |
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Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; The Story of Sapho; The Twentieth Harangue from Les femmes illustres; ou, Les harangues harangues heroiques; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Series Editors' Bibliography |
| Summary |
Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (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 Scudéry's novel Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the would-be salonnières that Molière satirized in Les précieuses ridi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701. Artamène
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| SUBJECT |
Artamène (Scudéry, Madeleine de) fast |
| Subject |
French literature -- 17th century -- Translations into English
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Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 17th century -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Romance -- General.
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French literature
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Women -- Social conditions
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Romance fiction
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Fiction
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Translations
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Love stories.
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Romance fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newman, Karen, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780226144009 |
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0226144003 |
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9780226143989 |
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0226143988 |
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9780226143996 |
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0226143996 |
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1281125466 |
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9781281125460 |
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9786611125462 |
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6611125469 |
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