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Freed by birth from all forms of prejudice, Imirce is both Candide (innocent) and Ingenu(e) (naive). As she explores... Read More >>
Widely read and distributed, the Almanach parisien is a revelatory text on uses of the city during the Enlightenment.... Read More >>
The impact of the Etudes de la nature on French literature and philosophy is largely overlooked today. The edition... Read More >>
The texts in this collection shine light on the origins of the first European periodicals, their sources, their... Read More >>
The notes taken by the diplomat Charles-Etienne Coquebert de Montbret during his journey from Paris to Dublin in... Read More >>
It is neither ideological nor documentary relevance that make this story unforgettable-this is accomplished rather... Read More >>
"Using a surprising approach, this collection demonstrates the literary practices and obsessions of an era, all... Read More >>
This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying... Read More >>
Jean-Marie-Jerome Fleuriot de Langle, a contemporary of Beaumarchais and Chateaubriand, is not exactly a literary... Read More >>
The rich production of novels in France within this short period, which precedes not only the ban on novels but... Read More >>
This work brings together all the writings related to the dispute that followed the first performance of the play... Read More >>
The prefaces assembled in this volume illustrate the contradiction between the demand for foreign novels--which... Read More >>
"Marivaux's short satirical story about the cup-and-ball game ""bilboquet""--omitted from the author's complete... Read More >>
This eighteenth-century libertine novel is composed of two narrative-memoirs: the autobiography of a provincial... Read More >>
"Written if not day by day then at least in temporal continuity, as the name ""historical diary"" would have it,... Read More >>
Le Chef-d'oeuvre d'un inconnu by Themiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe, first published in 1714, is a parody in which a popular... Read More >>
What remains of the abundant literary production of the eighteenth-century fable writers? The present anthology... Read More >>
Freemasonry has moved far from its origins: although some early practices survive, others have disappeared entirely.... Read More >>
Successive editors of Condorcet have piously avoided publishing this violently anticlerical text, which seeks to... Read More >>
This work offers an insight into the many lampoons written about Cagliostro and explores how, in the time between... Read More >>
This work presents a chronological journey through the work of Alain-Rene Lesage. We will see in particular how... Read More >>
The considerations of Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli on the role of colors in a society torn between chromophobia... Read More >>
Through these two royalist tragedies written in 1797, the authors intended to pay homage to two martyrs of the French... Read More >>
The myth of Sappho appears in the eighteenth century in art, literature, and philosophical thought. Inflected by... Read More >>
"Matteo Maria Boiardo's ""Orlando Innamorato"" appears in this volume, in Alain-Rene Lesage's French translation,... Read More >>
