The Enterprise of Enlightenment
A Tribute to David Williams from his Friends
Published on 12. February 2004
Book
Hardback
402 pages
978-3-03910-164-1 (ISBN)
Description
Published on the occasion of his retirement in honour of his outstanding contribution to French Enlightenment studies, this volume explores those areas of research in which David Williams has excelled and continues to excel: literary criticism, particularly Voltaire, the history of ideas, women and Enlightenment, colonial practices and revolutionary politics. It brings together a collection of essays from some of the most prestigious international names in the field and tackles subjects which expose in all their splendid diversity the enterprise - both innovation and undertaking - of the Siècle des Lumières.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
16 ill.
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
693 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03910-164-1 (9783039101641)
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Persons
The Editors: Terry Pratt is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Sheffield and has published widely on French Enlightenment epic poetry and authors of the late eighteenth century.
David McCallam is Lecturer in French at the University of Sheffield, specialist in the literature and politics of the revolutionary period and author of Chamfort and the French Revolution: A Study in Form and Ideology (Oxford, 2002).
Content
Contents: Haydn Mason: Foreword - Michael Cardy: The abbé Du Bos Reads Addison in
The Spectator
- Cecil Courtney: Variations on a Theme: 'Il faut cultiver notre jardin' in the Writings of Belle de Zuylen / Isabelle de Charrière - Patrick Fein: Crébillon's Use of Humour and Satire in
Les Egarements du c?ur et de l'esprit
- Robin Howells: Humiliation in Mme de Graffigny - Sylvain Menant: Caylus ou le rejet de la poésie - Malcolm Cook: Philosophy and Method in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's
Paul et Virginie
- Philip Robinson: Mme Poivre's Letters to Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Biography between the Lines - David Adams: Slavery in the
Encyclopédie
- Peter Jimack: Diderot and India - Roger Little: A Black Mayor in 1790 France - John Renwick:
Philosophes
into Counter-Revolutionaries? The Case of Jean-François Marmontel - Theodore E. D. Braun:
Micromégas
: Voltaire's Interstellar
Conte
, a Model for the Future? - David Coward: Le Conte voltairien d'après la
Correspondance
- Nicholas Cronk: Public and Private Poetry: The Problem of Voltaire's
L'Anti-Giton
- Simon Davies: Voltaire's
Les Lois de Minos
: Text and Context - J. Patrick Lee: The Apocryphal Voltaire: Problems in the Voltairean Canon - Christiane Mervaud: Du
Siècle de Louis XIV
aux
Questions sur l'Encyclopédie
: Voltaire et l'abbé Jacques Boileau - John Dunkley: Added Value: From Berquin to Johnson; John Bewick's Illustrations to
The Looking-Glass for the Mind
- Peter France: Teaching Taste - David Smith: Nouveaux Regards sur la brève rencontre entre Mme Du Châtelet et Saint-Lambert - Adrienne Mason: Rekindling
La Dispute
: Rediscovery and Cultural Transfer - Haydn Mason: David Hume: Paradox and Achievement.