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The Eighteenth Century Now - Boundaries and Perspectives (English, French, Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The Eighteenth Century Now - Boundaries and Perspectives (English, French, Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2005:10
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Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of SVEC, this collection
of essays examines the current state of eighteenth-century French
studies; it revisits a familiar canon, investigates more recently
discovered fields of enquiry, and explores new perspectives for
research. Eighteenth-century studies today are characterised above
all by their re-examination of categories and boundaries. We are
witnessing a progressive broadening of the canon, not least in our
rediscovery of women's writing, and a reinvestigation of apparently
'minor' works by apparently 'familiar' authors. There has been
path-breaking research, too, in areas which reflect our broadening
conception of eighteenth-century studies, from literature of travel
to post-colonial writing, translation to the press, popular
literature to clandestine manuscripts. Different perspectives on
eighteenth-century writing have been opened up by new ways of
reading which draw on research in cultural studies, history of the
book or rhetorical analysis. New insights have emerged from
studying the interaction of text and image, word and music, the
points of contact between the worlds of science and the arts, of
politics, philosophy and literature, exchanges across national and
linguistic boundaries, or across the artificial divisions of 'one'
century. Inclusive, interdisciplinary and international, this
volume embodies the principles which inspired the creation of SVEC
by Theodore Besterman in 1955; it investigates our changing images
of writers and writing to the categories in which we may try to
confine them, from 'Voltaire' to the 'eighteenth century'. The
Eighteenth century now suggests our sense of identification with
the period, the vibrancy of present research in both individual and
collaborative projects, and the promise of immediacy and exchange
in the electronic age. But it also evokes the boundaries which
remain, financial, institutional, intellectual, and which present
the challenge of the future. Its aim is as much to provoke thought
as to provide answers, to stimulate as well as to celebrate.
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