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La Correspondance d'Eugène Fromentin réunit, pour la première fois, toutes les lettres de Fromentin repérées à ce jour, ainsi qu'une sélection très importante des réponses qu'il reçut. Pour les trois quarts inédites, ces lettres ont été retrouvées dans différentes collections publiques et particulières en France et à l'étranger, notamment dans les archives privées des descendants de celui qui fut à la fois peintre et écrivain.

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Isabelle de Charrière, formerly best known for her friendship with James Boswell and Benjamin Constant, is now recognised as one of the most fascinating literary figures of her time, a brilliant letter-writer and gifted novelist.Cecil Courney's biography chronicles her life in a lively, comprehensive and scholarly fashion and makes full use of the original sources, notably Belle's extensive correspondence with many of the leading figures of he...

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Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet's construction through print culture, Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopédie examines the shifting definition of ballet over the second half of the eighteenth century, highlighting the role of textual borrowing and compilation in disseminating knowledge during the Enlightenment.

A comparative foray into their respective different approaches to history and authorship cautions us against assuming a direct transition from the Republic of Letters into an Enlightenment Republic of Letters.

This book fills a gap as it poses, for the first time, the question of the philosophical meaning of atheism in the early modern period. The philosophy of Spinoza, Hobbes, Bayle, Meslier, Boulainviller, Du Marsais, Fréret, Toland, Collins, Hume, Diderot, Voltaire, and d'Holbach is explored and their positions are placed in a general interpretive scheme, based on the idea that atheism is itself an unwanted fruit of early modern metaphysics and t...

Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in representing the "Other" against which European identity has been constructed.

While their importance has been fully recognised and extensively studied in early modern Britain and in the Victorian period, the long eighteenth century has been too often presented as a black hole regarding genealogy. Enlightened values and urban sociability have been presented as inimical to the praise of ancestry and birth. In contrast, however, various studies on the continental or in the American colonies, have shed light on the many use...

This volume originated as a colloquium titled 'Artisanal praxis and state power' hosted by the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in December 2017."--Page xix.

Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico is the first study to comprehensively analyse the configuration of the idea of the Republic of Letters in an eighteenth-century Latin American country. Taking a multisided approach to Mexican culture of the era, this book's analysis of literary texts engages with an exploration of such concepts as the Republic of Letters and the archive, as well as their connections to transatlan...

Riche de ses éditeurs scolaires et de ses collections enfantines, le dix-neuvième siècle a-t-il inventé le marché du livre pour enfants? Dans la France du dix-huitième siècle, de nombreux acteurs s'efforcent déjà de séparer, au sein de la librairie, les lectures adaptées aux enfants et aux jeunes gens. Les rituels pédagogiques des collèges et des petites écoles, les stratégies commerciales des libraires, les préoccupations des Églises, les pro...

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Latest volume of the edited correspondence of 18th-century French novelist, playwright and salonniere, Madame de Graffigny. Contains the letters written between 1756 and 1759. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

La table ronde qui s'est tenue à Bristol en juillet 1991 rassemblait à l'occasion du Congrès quadriennal des Lumières neuf chercheurs de réputation internationale dans le domaine de communication manuscrite au XVIIIe siècle. Spécialistes des correspondances littéraires destinées aux princes, des manuscrits clandestins à coloration philosophique, des gazettes manuscrites dites « nouvelles à la main » et de la circulation de l'information par ce...

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Part of the complete works of the French philosopher, historian and social reformer, Voltaire. This set of three volumes is the only modern critical edition of Voltaire's longest, most sustained piece of literary criticism. For students and scholars of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Part of Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny.

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