Literary studies: general books

"Written if not day by day then at least in temporal continuity, as the name ""historical diary"" would have it,...  Read More >>

Successive editors of Condorcet have piously avoided publishing this violently anticlerical text, which seeks to...  Read More >>

What remains of the abundant literary production of the eighteenth-century fable writers? The present anthology...  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 >>

"Written if not day by day then at least in temporal continuity, as the name ""historical diary"" would have it,...  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 notes taken by the diplomat Charles-Etienne Coquebert de Montbret during his journey from Paris to Dublin in...  Read More >>

The considerations of Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli on the role of colors in a society torn between chromophobia...  Read More >>

The texts in this collection shine light on the origins of the first European periodicals, their sources, their...  Read More >>

It is neither ideological nor documentary relevance that make this story unforgettable-this is accomplished rather...  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 >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels.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

"Matteo Maria Boiardo's ""Orlando Innamorato"" appears in this volume, in Alain-Rene Lesage's French translation,...  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 >>

Adolph von Knigge's work draws on a real event-Jean-Pierre Blanchard's ascent by balloon in August 1788--and the...  Read More >>

This eighteenth-century libertine novel is composed of two narrative-memoirs: the autobiography of a provincial...  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 >>

A short pamphlet defending a lost cause, the Voyage merveilleux du prince Fan-Feredin sparked a great debate on...  Read More >>

Freed by birth from all forms of prejudice, Imirce is both Candide (innocent) and Ingenu(e) (naive). As she explores...  Read More >>

Freemasonry has moved far from its origins: although some early practices survive, others have disappeared entirely....  Read More >>