Selected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues [electronic resource] /
Madeleine de Scudéry ; edited and translated by Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson.
- University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 174 p.) : ill.
- Other voice in early modern Europe .
- Other voice in early modern Europe. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-43) and index.
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 rhetor.