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The Story of Sapho (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe),Used
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Product Description Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudry (16071701) 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 selfcontained section from Scudry's novel Artamne ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the wouldbe salonnires that Molire satirized in Les prcieuses 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 Scudry'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 Scudry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write. From the Inside Flap Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudry (16071701) 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 selfcontained section from Scudry's novelArtamne ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the wouldbesalonnires that Molire satirized in Les prcieuses ridicules. The Storytells 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 Scudry'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, orharangue, of Scudry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write. From the Back Cover Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudry (16071701) 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 selfcontained section from Scudry's novel Artamne ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the wouldbe salonnires that Molire satirized in Les prcieuses 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 Scudry'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 Scudry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write. About the Author Madeleine de Scudry (16071701) 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 womens education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing.Karen Newman is the University Professor and professor of comparative literatur
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