Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Romance writings
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Romance writings
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical footnotes
Text in English, with Italian, French appendixes
Contents of Works
- Indamora to Lindamira : her life writ in 5 letters : to the reader I have read somewhere a book thus intitled The adventures of Lindamira a lady of quality, written by her own hand to a freind [i.e. friend] in the country
- The Sultan's tale
- Court tales, I. Mademoiselle de Condé
- Court tales, II. Louisa
- Italian memoir
- Princess Docile, I, II
- Princess Docile : fragment, I, II
- Appedix I. Memoire Italiano
- Appendix II. La princesse Docile, I, II ; La princesse Docile : fragment, I, II
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Description
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) is one of the most important women writers between Aphra Behn and Jane Austen, and one of her period's most provocative and entertaining writers of either sex. The narratives in this volume, with the exception of one juvenile piece, have never been printed before. They show the author experimenting with the genres of fiction and autobiography, more influenced by French models than by English, but always working experimentally
against the grain of her various traditions. Besides page-turning narrative, these works offer the rare opportunity of a completely fresh take on literary movements, cross-cultural relations, gender ideologies, and other literary debates of the early eighteenth century. Our existing picture of what was
once possible in literature and what was possible for women at this time cannot remain unchanged once these writings appear.
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