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  1. The story of Sapho
    Author: Scudéry, Madeleine de
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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,... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    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.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Newman, Karen
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226144009; 0226144003; 9780226143989; 0226143988; 9780226143996; 0226143996; 1281125466; 9781281125460
    Series: The other voice in early modern Europe
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 155 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155)