Seneca Unmasqued: Aphra Behn's Translation of La Rochefoucauld's "Maxims" (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-century) - Hardcover

Behn, Aphra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0404635296 ISBN 13: 9780404635299

Publisher: AMS Press, 2001

Synopsis

The second English translation of La Rochefoucauld's maxims was made by Mrs Aphra Behn, a woman who is now admired as England's first professional female author. This facing-page bilingual edition offers an accurate translation of the text, an introduction and extensive annotations of the maxims.

Edition details

• Publisher: AMS Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0404635296
• ISBN 13: 9780404635299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: Primer Irwin