M. E. Cantillo-Lucuara

Madeleine de Scudéry’s Sappho and the Rise of the Novel in Early Modern England: Transnationalism, Catalogic Networks, and Intergeneric Nodes

In this article, I reconsider the early modern reception of Sappho by situating her emergence as a narrative character in the larger context of the transnational formation of the English novel. Focusing on the first translation of Madeleine de Scudéry’s Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus (1653), I argue that Sappho’s entry int...