Works by Madeleine de Scudéry

Cited Works

Citations are to the page numbers of the original French version. Passages from the French quoted in this entry are translated by John Conley.

Other Works

• Discours de la Gloire, Paris: Pierre le Petit, 1671. [Translated as Essay Upon Glory by Elizabeth Elstob: J. Morphew, 1708.] (Scholar)
• Lettres de Scudéry à M. Godeau, évêque de Vence, M Monmerqué (ed.), Paris: A. Levavasseur, 1835.
• Mademoiselle de Scudéry, sa vie et sa correspondance, avec un choix de ses poésies, par MM. Rathy et Boutron, Paris: Léon Techener, 1873.
• Nouvelles conversations de morale, 2 vols., Paris: Mabre-Cramoisy, 1688.
• La Promenade de Versailles, Paris: C. Barbin, 1669.
• Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues, Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson (trans. and eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
• The Story of Sapho, Karen Newman (trans. and ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [excerpt from Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus (1648–1653)]

Secondary Sources

• Aronson, Nicole, 1978, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, Boston: Twayne Publishers. (Scholar)
• Beasley, Faith E., 1990, Revising Memory: Women’s Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth Century France, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Scholar)
• Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, 1966 [OC], Oeuvres complètes, François Escal (ed.), Paris: Gallimard.
• Blank, Andreas, 2019, “Self-Knowledge and Varieties of Human Excellence in the French Moralists,” in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 27(3): 513–534. (Scholar)
• Burch, Laura J., 2013, “Madeleine de Scudéry : Peut-on parler de femme philosophe ?” Revue philosophique de la France et de l’Etranger, 203(31): 361–375. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Le livre aux lèvres: Apprendre à parler autement dans les Conversations de Madeleine de Scudéry,” in “A qui lira”; Littérature, livre et librairie en France au XVIIe siècle, Mathilde Bombart et al. (eds.), Tùbingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 746. (Scholar)
• Conley, John J., 2023, “Madeleine de Scudéry: Moral Philosophy in a Gendered Key” in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro (eds.), New York and London, Routledge. (Scholar)
• Cousin, Victor, 1858, La Société française au XVIIe siècle d’après “Le Grand Cyrus” de Mademoiselle de Scudéry, 2 vols., Paris: Didier. (Scholar)
• De Jean, Joan, 1991, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Denery, Dallas G., 2021, “Truth, Lies, and the Good Life in Michel de Montaigne, Madeleine de Scudéry, And Several Others,” in Being Untruthful: Lying, Fiction, and the Non-Factual, Monika Fludernik et al. (eds.), Wùrzburg: Ergon Verlag, 347. (Scholar)
• Duggan, Anne E., 2016, “Madeleine de Scudéry’s Animal Sublime, or Of Chameleons,” European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 7(1): 28–41. [Duggan 2016 available online] (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Les Femmes illustres, or the Book as Triumphal Arch,” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 44(87): 247–266. (Scholar)
• Forbes, Allauren Samantha, 2022, “Madeleine de Scudéry on Conversation and Its Feminist Ends,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 30(1): 48–70. (Scholar)
• Goldsmith, Elizabeth, 1988, Exclusive Conversations: The Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• Grande, Nathalie, 2022, “Madeleine de Scudéry au péril de la folie: Comment un argument poétique devient un critique misogyne (Molière, Boileau, Subligny),” in Femme et folie sous l’Ancien Régime, Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier, 361. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Des plaisirs honnêtes? Loisirs et plaisirs féminins selon François de Grenaille et Madeleine de Scudéry,” in L’Honnêteté au Grand Siècle: Belles manières et belles lettres, Marcella Leopizzi (ed.), Tùbingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 476. (Scholar)
• Green, Karen, 2010, “The Amazons and Mademoiselle de Scudéry’s Refashioning of Female Virtue,” in Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, P. Salzman (ed.), Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 150–167. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Madeleine de Scudéry on Love and the Emergence of the ‘Private Sphere,’” History of Political Thought, 30(2): 272–285. (Scholar)
• Harth, Erica, 1992, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Hogg, Chloé, 2018, “The King in Trinkets: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Conversations and the Downsizing of Absolutism,” Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 41(3): 355–371. doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12523 (Scholar)
• Liot Backer, Dorothy Anne, 1974, Precious Women: A Feminist Phenomenon in the Age of Louis XIV, New York City: Basic Books. (Scholar)
• Niderst, Alain, 1976, Madeleine de Scudéry, Paul Pellisson et leur monde, Paris: Presses universitaires de France. (Scholar)
• Richards, Sinan, 2021, “La Mère dangereuse: Reimagning Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre with Lacan’s Graph of Desire,” French Studies: A Quarterly Review, 75(2): 163–183. (Scholar)
• Sahlins, Peter, 2015, “A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV,” in French Thinking About Animals, Louisa Mackenzie and Stephanie Posthumus (eds.), East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. (Scholar)
• Suzuki, Mihoko, 2018, “Political Writing Across Borders,” in A History of Early Modern Women’s Writing, Patricia Berrahou Philippy (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 364–381. doi:10.1017/9781316480267.021 (Scholar)
• Timmermans, Linda, 1993, L’Accès des Femmes à la Culture (1598–1715), Paris: Éditions Champion.