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

by Aphra Behn

Irwin Primer (Introduction) and Aphra Behn (Translator)

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.

• ISBN13: 9780404635299
• Publish Date: 1 November 1996
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: AMS Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 198
• Language: English