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Lucrece and Brutus: Glory in the Land of Tender: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, cartea 84

Autor Madeleine De Scudéry Editat de Sharon Diane Nell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2022
A collection of texts by a pioneering seventeenth-century French woman author.
 
Comprising texts by Madeleine de Scudéry, including many from her novel Clélie, this volume focuses on the story of Lucretia, the Roman matron whose rape and suicide led to the downfall of the Roman monarchy. Through her work, Scudéry seeks to contrast the enormous cultural contributions of women with their physical vulnerability and to propose an alternative to sexual violation, as envisioned on the Map of the Land of Tender that charts an imaginary land in the novel and outlines a path toward love. In Scudéry’s version of this tale, Lucrece and her beloved, Brutus, follow the path of tender friendship. Scudéry contradicts history’s characterization of Lucrece as craving glory in the form of fame. Indeed, contrary to ancient sources, Lucrece’s glory will be her decision to sacrifice herself secretly for her tender friend.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781649590220
ISBN-10: 1649590229
Pagini: 382
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Iter Press
Colecția Iter Press
Seria The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series


Notă biografică

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.
 

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction
The Other Voice
About This Volume
Queen of Tender: The Life and Times of Madeleine de Scudéry
Scudéry’s Legacy and the Afterlife of the Texts in This Volume
Note on the Translation


Glory and Woman before Clélie: Lucrece and Cloelia in the Femmes Illustres (1642)
Lucrece to Colatin
Cloelia to Porsenna

The Language of Tender in Clélie, Part 1, Book 1 (1654)
Conversation on the Power of Inclination
Conversation on the Birth of Love
The Map of the Land of Tender

Lucrece and Brutus in Clélie: Glory in the Land of Tender
Collatin Takes His Comrades to Visit Lucrece at Collatia, from Clélie, Part 1, Book 3 (1654)
“Story of Lucius Junius Brutus,” from Clélie, Part 2, Book 1 (1655)
Lucrece’s Suicide and Brutus’s Speech, from Clélie, Part 2, Book 3 (1655)
Lucrece Appears to Brutus in a Dream, from Clélie, Part 3, Book 3 (1657)
Lucrece Appears to Clelie in a Dream, from Clélie, Part 5, Book 2 (1660)

Scudéry on Glory after Clélie
Discourse on Glory (1671)

Appendix A: Lucrece and Brutus: Sources from Livy to Augustine and Seventeenth-Century France

Appendix B: Glossary

Appendix C: List of Characters

Bibliography

Index

Recenzii

“In this erudite and insightful work, Sharon Nell assembles and expertly translates passages from Madeleine de Scudéry’s corpus, illuminating the foundational story of Lucretia, a Roman matron who turns her rape by Sextus Tarquinius into an act of supreme heroism through her suicide, which ultimately causes the downfall of the Roman monarchy. Scudéry’s version of this story poetically intertwines two of the main cultural preoccupations of mid-seventeenth-century France concerning women: female heroism and salon life, including the notion of tender friendship. Nell exposes the centrality of the Lucretia story which sparked debates about female glory and virtue originating in antiquity and continuing unabated through the seventeenth century, demonstrating that era’s intense preoccupation with the proper role of women.”