Literary studies: general books

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 >>

This pamphlet published in 1784 is a satire as well as a profound discussion about the future of the book and culture...  Read More >>

The texts offered in this collection will help readers get a sense of the diversity of the works of Jean-Jacques...  Read More >>

This anthology offers an overview of a now forgotten literature of entertainment and of a genre dependent on Ancien...  Read More >>

Argues that digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions, ambiguities, and gaps in core narrative concepts,...  Read More >>

At head of title: Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma.  Read More >>

Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of the underground in nineteenth-century US literature, showing how...  Read More >>

This critical anthology of twenty-three pamphlets gives an account of the media's relentless attacks on Ancien Regime...  Read More >>

Marivaux was not afraid to take on the role of editing feuilles volantes, no matter how lowly this position was...  Read More >>

The account of this journey, the manuscript for which remains miraculously intact, is the work of a perfectly unknown...  Read More >>

This work presents a philological study of the Corbierian text, its punctuation, its style of spelling, and various...  Read More >>

Rabelais's work is peppered with references and quotations taken from the Bible. From this traditional typology,...  Read More >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying...  Read More >>

"The studies gathered in this volume aim to clarify the status of literary people in the eighteenth century and...  Read More >>