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Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the 'Luxury
debate' in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of
The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
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.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
This collection of eighty-nine letters written by Parisian and
other European map publishers to the London map firm of Jefferys
& Faden represents one of the few business archives left to us
from the eighteenth-century map trade. Thomas Jefferys
(c.1720-1771) and William Faden (1749-1836) both enjoyed the title
of 'Geographer to the King of England' and were well respected by
other geographers of the period. Like many of his contemporaries in
the map trade, Jefferys had difficulty making a financial success
of his map business; his successor Faden, by contrast, was able to
expand the firm into a flourishing business which continued well
into the nineteenth century. Their correspondents included
important European map and print publishers such as Covens &
Mortier in Amsterdam and Lattre, Julien and Desnos in Paris, as
well as the French geographers d'Anville and Robert de Vaugondy.
Other persons mentioned in the correspondence provide links between
Faden's London firm and the Depot de la Marine, the French Navy's
cartographic department, an important connection in the tumultuous
decade of 1773-1783 when England found itself at war with France in
North America, in the English Channel, and in India. The letters
also provide a detailed view of the costs of doing business -
prices, discount, payment, schedules and methods, shipping costs
and arrangements- in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and
further increase our knowledge of the economics of map production
and sales in this period. The letters are now in the Manuscript
Division of the William L. Clements Library at the University of
Michigan. In this edition they have been transcribed and fully
annotated and are preceded by an introduction placing the
correspondence in the context of the print and book trade and the
role of cartography in eighteenth-century politics.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
Francoise de Graffigny est une femme de lettres paradoxale; elle
avoue craindre 'le nom d'auteur', mais ses ecrits font preuve d'une
originalite hardie. Pour la premiere fois la grande diversite de
son oeuvre fait ici l'objet d'un examen: sa correspondance, qui
mele des observations penetrantes sur son epoque a des reflexions
franches sur les diverses facettes de sa vie de provinciale
depaysee, de salonniere celebre, d'ecrivain novateur, et de femme -
en toutes lettres; son drame sentimental, Cenie, et autres pieces
morales ou philosophiques; ses premiers contes; et ses Lettres
d'une Peruvienne, que l'on s'arrache au dix-huitieme siecle, devenu
roman iconique des dernieres decennies. La femme et l'oeuvre
deroutent, pourtant, comme elles fascinent. Francoise de Graffigny
inspire le respect, l'amour aussi parfois, chez ses amis et les
habitues de son salon; les Lettres d'une Peruvienne et Cenie sont
lus, commentes et maintes fois traduits partout en Europe. Mais au
moyen de reecritures, de traductions ou de comptes rendus, on tente
neanmoins de recuperer une oeuvre qui, s'attaquant aux conventions,
destabilise, pour la reporter dans des categories familieres. A
travers une panoplie de reactions, nous decouvrons l'image que l'on
s'est faite de cette femme ecrivain, domestiquee en fonction des
gouts de son epoque. L'image de l'ecrivain qui emerge de ce volume
n'est pas unifiee; elle ne se cantonne pas a celle, metaphorique,
de l'auteur sentimental, ou feministe. Diverses approches critiques
- comparatistes et narratologiques, biographiques et
bibliographiques - nous font voir la richesse d'une oeuvre
polyvalente situee aux frontieres du vecu et de l'imaginaire, du
public et du prive, du traditionnel et de l'experimental. Francoise
de Graffigny resiste a toute interpretation reductrice,
ideologique, au vingt-et-unieme siecle comme au dix-huitieme. Elle
est une femme de lettres exceptionnelle, insaisissable, soit
irresistible.
Les annees 1752-1753 du sejour prussien de Voltaire sont marquees
par deux querelles a rebondissements et d'une extreme virulence:
l'une oppose l'auteur a La Beaumelle (la parution du "Supplement au
Siecle de Louis XIV" en marquera une etape), l'autre le met aux
prises avec Maupertuis et Frederic II, et Voltaire en rendra compte
sur le mode satirique dans son "Histoire du docteur Akakia", dont
l'edition critique est presentee dans ce volume.
"Pamela" and the "Memoires pour servir a la vie de Monsieur de
Voltaire" are accounts of the author's own life, concentrating
particularly on his relationship with the king of Prussia. They
were composed in the 1750s, one of the most turbulent decades in
Voltaire's life, which opened shortly after the death of Mme Du
Chatelet with an extended visit to Prussia, and ended with his
installation at Ferney with Mme Denis. It was a decade of extreme
contrasts shaped by his relationship with Frederick the Great, a
period of supreme, seemingly unassailable celebrity and of public
humiliation, of independence and exile, of power and vulnerability.
The texts are unusual in the works of Voltaire, for two reasons:
they are both written as first-person narratives, dealing with the
actions and emotions of the writer; and they were both unpublished
during the lifetime of the author. "Pamela", a reworking of letters
to Mme Denis during his years in Prussia (which were long thought
to be authentic), gives a very carefully constructed view of the
period, where attitudes are modified, chronology manipulated,
details omitted. The same is true of the "Memoires", where the
perspective is different, but still issues are simplified, and
evidence changed at will. Through these two texts, Voltaire speaks
directly to posterity, as he seeks to claim the authority to write
about himself, to create and control his image.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause
of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...'
Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish
conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is
rescued and taken to France by Deterville, a nobleman, who is soon
captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth
century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings
on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her
experience of a new and alien society. Francoise de Graffigny's
bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary
taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for love stories.
But by fusing sentimental fiction and social commentary, she also
created a new kind of heroine, defined by her intellect as much as
her feelings. The novel's controversial ending calls into question
traditional assumptions about the role of women both in fiction and
society, and about what constitutes 'civilization'. ABOUT THE
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En 1894, un siecle apres sa mort, Condorcet est porte au faite de
la gloire par la troisieme Republique. Pourquoi et comment un
philosophe des Lumieres, mathematiciens, revolutionnaire,
devient-il l'un des heros peuplant la memoire collective ?
L'evenement ne s'inscrit pas dans un continuum historique et n'est
pas l'aboutissement d'un long processus qui aurait commence des la
disparition du personnage. Les auteurs qui commentent et
interpretent la pensee, l'action ou la vie de Condorcet,
appartiennent aux horizons politiques et philosophiques les plus
divers; leurs discours respectifs s'affrontent souvent. Parfois des
lignes de fractures traversent une meme configuration idealogique
car chaque exegete opere des choix dans l'oeuvre du philosophe et
en recuse des pans entiers. Pour rendre compte de cette prolixite
du fait interpretatif, la demarche se situe a la rencontre de
l'etude conceptuelle et symbolique. L'analyse des formes textuelles
et des concepts philosophiques s'articule a une analyse des effets
institutionnels et a une exploration de l'imaginaire (iconographie,
statuomanie, celebrations). La permeabilite et l'entrelacement de
ces types discursifs permettent de definir la plasticite de la
figure de Condorcet qui conduit a la naissance posthume de
l'eidolon: a la fois image et sens.
A critical edition of "Le Misanthrope." The introduction examines
the interlocking levels of comedy apparent both in the play's
literary texture and in the original performance, and discusses the
history of its reception, showing how it is constantly adapted to
the values of changing times.
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