Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

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Madeleine de Scudery (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 Scudery's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudery'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.