Lucrece and Brutus : glory in the land of tender /
Scudéry, Madeleine de,1607-1701,author.
Nell, Sharon Diane,1955-translator,editor.
Scudéry, Madeleine de,1607-1701.Femmes illustres.Selections.English.
Includes translations from French into English of selections from Scudéry's Clélie and two "harangues" from her Femmes illustres ou les harangues heroïques (1642).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Glory and woman before Clélie : Lucrece and Cloelia in the Femmes illustres (1642) -- The language of tender in Clélie, part 1, book 1 (1654) -- Lucrece and Brutus in Clélie : glory in the land of tender -- Scudéry on glory after Clélie -- Appendix A: Lucrece and Brutus : sources from Livy to Augustine and seventeenth-century France -- Appendix B: Glossary -- Appendix C: List of characters.
Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701
Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.
Lucrece and Brutus