{"product_id":"9780226144122","title":"Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues","description":"Madeleine de Scudéry (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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's \u003ci\u003eAmorous Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her \u003ci\u003eFamous Women, or Heroic Speeches\u003c\/i\u003e, and her series of \u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111209812208,"sku":"9780226144122","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226144122_p0.jpg?v=1763674532","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226144122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}