Lucrece and Brutus – Glory in the Land of Tender

"The story of the chaste matron Lucretia as told from a feminist perspective by 17th-century French novelist Madeleine de Scudâery in eleven pieces of writing, most of them extracts, from three of her works"--

About the author

Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was a seventeenth-century French author of conversations, novellas, and novels, including Clélie, Histoire Romaine. Sharon Diane Nell is professor of French and dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas. She is the author of numerous articles and is the coeditor and cotranslator, with Aurora Wolfgang, of Jacques Du Bosc's L'Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women.

Product details

• Authors: Madeleine de Scudery, Sharon Diane Nell
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781649590220
• ISBN: 978-1-64959-022-0
• No. of pages: 382
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 153 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 632 g
• Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories