Diderot and European culture
By: edited by Frédéric Ogée and Anthony Strugnell.
Contributors: Ogée, Frédéric.; Strugnell, Anthony.
Series: SVEC -- 2006:09.; SVEC -- 2006:09.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Diderot, Denis, -- 1713-1784 -- Influence; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century
Notes: "This volume of essays originated in papers given at a colloquium of the same name held in 2002 at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242) and index.

Articles and summaries in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Anthony Strugnell and -- Frédéric Ogée -- I.; title: The non-European other.; title: Talking jewels and other oriental seductions -- Srinivas Aravamudan ;; title: Diderot and the Encyclopédie's construction of the black African -- Andrew Curran -- II.; title: The European experience.; title: Diderot et la Russie: colonisation et civilisation, projets et expérience directe -- Gianluigi Goggi ;; title: La statue du bon despote: Diderot et la figure de Pierre le Grand -- Colas Duflo ;; title: Un voyage manqué: Diderot, Grimm et le mythe de Venise -- Girolamo Imbruglia ;; title: An island race: Diderot's deconstruction of English history -- Anthony Strugnell -- III.; title: Translating English thought.; title: Diderot and Richardson -- Frédéric Ogée ;; title: Around 1740: Diderot and the subject of translation -- Julie Candler Hayes ;; title: Diderot, the European underground and English radical thought: filling out the gaps -- Marian Hobson ;; title: Diderot and the Enlightenment's poetics of confusion in the Lettre sur les aveugles -- John O'Neal -- IV.; title: Constructing "Diderot."; title: Hobbes and Hume: determining voices in Jacques le fataliste et son maître -- Nicholas Cronk ;; title: Diderot and the culture of belatedness -- Daniel Brewer ;; title: Comment (ne pas) hériter de Diderot?-- Jean-Claude Bourdin.