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Annotated Bibliography

de Scudéry, Madeleine. Artamene Ou Le Grand Cyrus… 1650.

—. Clélie, Histoire Romaine. Editions Gallimard, 2006.

—. Conversations Nouvelles Sur Divers Sujets, Dediées Au Roy. 1685.

—. Discours de La Gloire. 1671.

—. Entretiens de Morale. 1692.

—. La Morale Du Monde, Ou Conversations. 1686.

—. La Promenade de Versailles. 1669.

—. Les Femmes Illustres, 1644. Editions Indigo & Côté-femmes, 1991.

—. Mathilde (d’aguilar). Slatkine Reprints, 1667.

de Scudery, Madeleine. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. University of Chicago Press, 2007.

—. The Story of Sapho. Translated by Karen Newman, University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Duggan, Anne E. “Madeleine de Scudéry’s Animal Sublime, or Of Chameleons // Lo Sublime Animal de Madeleine de Scudéry, o De Los Camaleones.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 7, no. 1, June 2016, pp. 28–41, doi:10.37536/ecozona.2016.7.1.977.

Anne Duggan’s paper analyzes Scudery’s relationship with her two chameleons and her argument against the Cartesian idea that non-human animals are mechanical and without reason. Duggan compares Scudery’s ideas with that of other writers of the time who seemingly objectify the animals and don’t believe animals have agency. The author explores Scudery’s values as a part of early ecofeminism.

(Georges), M. de Scudéry. Ibrahim, or the Illustrious Bassa, an Excellent New Romance … Written in French by Monsieur de Scuderi in Foure Parts … Englished by H. Cogan. 1652.

Green, Karen. “‘Madeleine de Scudéry on Love and the Emergence of the “Private Sphere.”’” History of Political Thought, vol. 30, no. 2, 2009, pp. 272–85, doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/26224101. JSTOR.

Karen Green writes about Scudery’s ability to parse out two distinct ‘spheres’ in society pertaining to love and relationships. Green describes Scudery’s ideas that romantic love and marriage are separate. The author outlines these terms and their meanings before Scudery’s influence and after.

Hogg, Chloé. “The King in Trinkets: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Conversations and the Downsizing of Absolutism.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, Jan. 2018, pp. 355–71, doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12523.

Chloe Hogg analyzes Scudery’s writing about the material culture of at the end of the seventeenth century. Hogg describes Scudery’s emphasis on trinkets and the emotions of consumption. The author notes that even Scudery is in the business of commodities by writing and selling her work.