Madeleine de Scudéry
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Standard Name: Scudéry, Madeleine de
Birth Name: Madeleine de Scudéry
Pseudonym: Monsieur de Scudéry
Used Form: Madeleine de Scudery
MS
is the most famous of the seventeenth-century French authors of heroic romances: fictions of great length, which centred on the lives, loves, and philosophical disquisitions of aristocratic characters. She also wrote poetry and letters.
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Literary Setting | Hope Mirrlees | HM
sets her narrative during a period of female learning and literary productivity in seventeenth-century France. Madeleine Toqueville, a young girl, moves with her parents from their provincial home to Paris, where Madeleine's erotic... |
Literary responses | Hope Mirrlees | Julia Briggs
reads the text as a roman à clef in which Scudéry
is an unflattering portrait of Natalie Barney
(whom HM
would have encountered when herself living in Paris) while Harrison
appears as the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Damaris Masham | Her letters to Locke begin under the sign of romance, with the choice of a pseudonym probably taken from Sir Philip Sidney
's Arcadia and an allusion (turning on the behaviour of people in love)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Lennox | Arabella is a reading heroine. Brought up on her dead mother's collection of French romances, she has been savouring a universal power over men, which exists only in her imagination. For this reason she scorns... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote a complex generic hybrid. It is a romance (Arabella is more beautiful and more intelligent than any other woman in the story; male characters can be judged by the degree and kind... |
Textual Features | Sophia Lee | An Advertisement claims that The Recess is a version, in modernised English, of a manuscript memoir from the reign of Elizabeth I
. It breaks new ground for the English novel in various ways: it... |
Textual Production | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | Jean Renaud de Segrais was a real person, who like Lafayette and Huet (a correspondent of de Scudéry
) was a member of the late seventeenth-century Paris intelligentsia. This novel was translated into English in... |
Textual Features | Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette | This work is more like the Scudéry
type of romance than are MML
's better-known novels. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In her preface JK
explains her interest in the rise of the novel and argues that novels have become the teachers for good or for evil of many; their power can be exalted or deplored—it... |
Textual Features | Julia Kavanagh | JK
successfully blends scholarly knowledge with popular style. Her historical and critical opinions are still well worth reading. On the great length of Scudéry
's romances, she cites a contemporary reader who had reached page... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
's preface discusses the magnetic attraction of novels for the young, and the importance this gives them as a method of instruction and influence. She throws out the expected gibe against circulating libraries and... |
Education | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Stéphanie-Félicité was seven when her governess, who was only sixteen, joined the family. In later years she regularly stressed the inadequacy of the way French girls of her class were taught, arguing in Discours sur... |
Dedications | Elizabeth Elstob | EE
published An Essay upon Glory—translated, as the title-page explains, from the French of Madeleine de Scudéryby a Person of the Same Sex. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. |
Textual Features | Susannah Dobson | SD
says her previous choice of subjects (Petrarch and the troubadours) was dictated by the feeling that it was well worth while to pass over a multitude of tyrants, whose lives are written in blood... |
Education | Elizabeth Delaval | She later recalled how she listened to fairy stories told her by Mrs Carter, how she read out chapters of the Bible in French, and loved the still new and fashionable French romances in their... |
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