Enlightenment and tradition
Subtitle: women's studies ; Montesquieu.
Contributors: Voltaire Foundation.
Series: SVEC -- 2007:06.; SVEC -- 2007:06.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780729409087
Subjects: French literature -- 18th century -- Criticism and interpretation.; Philosophy, French -- 18th century.; Enlightenment -- France -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. The discursive culture: reaction and interaction, text and context: Introduction / Mark Darlow and Caroline Warman; title: Chain reactions in the 18th century: reading Racine, Marot and Horace / Russell Goulbourne; title: Anecdote in history: the case of Voltaire's Histoire de Charles XII / Wendy Trowbridge; title: Contemporary reactions to Jean-Georges Noverre's ballets d'action / Edward Nye; title: Fragonard and pastiche: the case of the Girl in Spanish costume at Dulwich / Melissa Percival; title: Chains of influence, chains of allusion: case studies of clandestine rhetoric in and around the Encyclopédie / Caroline Warman - 'Le grand oubli de Suzanne Simonin': a premature case of amnesia in Diderot's La Religieuse / Phoebe von Held; title: Illustrations as reactions: three nineteenth-century readings of La Nouvelle Héloïse / Ann Lewis; title: Reacting to the Revolution: the example of Marmontel and Mercier / Katherine Astbury; title: The role of the listener in the musical aesthetics of the Revolution / Mark Darlow; title: II. Woman's studies: Violence against actresses: evidence from Campardon and others / Jan Clarke; title: Lambert, Puisieux, Leprince de Beaumont, Epinay and the legacy of their educational manuals in the nineteenth century / Nadine Bérenguier; title: Challenging male violence and the double standard in the courts: the separation case of Dame D (Paris, 1788) / Mary Trouille; title: III. Montesquieu: Montesquieu et ses sources: Alexandre, l'empire perse, les Guèbres et l'irrigation (De l'esprit des lois X.13-14; XVIII.7); title: IV. Language and culture: From the corruption of French to the cultural distinctiveness of German: the controversy over Prémontval's Préservatif (1759); title: Reconsidering Peru: eighteenth-century translations of Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne.