Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, The History of the Count de Comminge, translated by Charlotte Lennox
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In 1756 Charlotte Lennox, already a celebrated novelistshe had just published her most renowned work, The Female Quixote, a year beforetranslated from the original French one of the most successful novels written by Madame Claudine Gérin, the marquise de Tencin, Mémoires du comte de Comminge (1735). At the time, Madame de Tencin was a controversial public figure, an intellectual woman and one of the most distinguished salonnières in eighteenth-century France. Although Tencins name as the authoress of the novel was kept secret until after her death, notwithstanding the outstanding success of her Mémoires, Charlotte Lennox knew that the novel had been penned by a woman and decided to translate it and later serialize it in her feminist magazine The Ladys Museum, a periodical wholly devoted to womens literary and cultural education. Lennoxs translation of Tencins short novel is here reprinted for the first time after two centuries with critical notes and an introduction, in an edition that takes into account a close comparison between Lennoxs translation and Madame de Tencins original French version, and analyses all the variations and addenda that appeared in Lennoxs own version of The History of the Count de Comminge.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 30 Jun 2011
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443828680
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Marianna DEzio completed a PhD in English Literature at the University of Rome Sapienza and has been Adjunct Professor of English in several Italian universities (Cassino Perugia and Rome). She lives and works in Italy where she also worked as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California Rome Study Center. Her research interests focus on eighteenth-century literature and travel writing with special attention to women writers. She has participated in many conferences worldwide and has published several articles on eighteenth-century women travelling to Italy as well as miscellaneous articles on various topics. She edited a collection of essays entitled Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century (2008) for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and wrote a monograph on Hester Piozzi (Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity 2010). She also wrote a grammar book of English for Italian speakers (Mondadori 2010).