TY - BOOK ID - 77871968 TI - Selected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues AU - de Scudery, Madeleine AU - Donawerth, Jane AU - Strongson, Julie PY - 2004 SN - 1281125474 9786611125479 0226144127 9780226144122 9780226144030 0226144038 9780226144047 0226144046 9781281125477 0226144038 0226144046 6611125477 PB - Chicago, Ill. The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - French literature KW - Scudéry, Madeleine de, KW - madeleine de scudery, women writer, female author, literature, gender, europe, france, salon, career, education, feminism, feminist theory, social roles, louis xiv, french academy, pension, fame, success, recovery, archive, canon, nonfiction, essays, rhetoric, amorous letters, history, speech, marginalized, intellectual, profession. KW - Scudery, Madeleine de, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871968 AB - 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. ER -