BIOGRAPHY

Levi, Anthony. “Georges de Scudéry, 1601-1667.” In Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789, pp. 821-27. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994.

Provides an overview of Scudéry's life and works.

CRITICISM

Boyce, Benjamin. Introduction to Prefaces to Fiction, pp. i-x. Augustan Reprint Society Publication Number 32. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1952.

Surveys Scudéry's role in codifying early theories of the novel by examining the preface to Ibrahim and a conversation included in Clélie. The volume reprints the preface to Ibrahim.