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Romance writings
- Title
- Romance writings / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; edited by Isobel Grundy.
- Author
- Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR3604 .A6 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Grundy, Isobel.
- Description
- xxviii, 276 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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 in 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 taken 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Language (note)
- English, French, and Italian.
- Contents
- Indamora to Lindamira: Her Life Writ In 5 Letters -- The Sultan's Tale -- Court Tales 1: Mademoiselle De Conde -- Court Tales 2: Louisa -- Italian Memoir -- Princess Docile I -- Princess Docile II -- Princess Docile: Fragment I -- Princess Docile: Fragment II -- App. I: Memorie Italiano -- App. II: La Princesse Docile I -- App. II: La Princesse Docile II -- App. II: La Princesse Docile: Fragment I -- App. II: La Princesse Docile: Fragment II.
- ISBN
- 0198183194 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 95025046
- OCLC
- 33013546
- ocm33013546
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries