Architecture, Cultural History, Autobiography

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the ‘Luxury debate’ in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-05
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska, Franska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:355
Förlag:Voltaire Foundation
ISBN:9780729409346

Utforska kategorier

Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Arkitekturhistoria inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Innehållsförteckning

I. ArchitecturePascal Dubourg Glatigny, Les académies face à la question des techniques en architecture (de la fin du XVIIe siècle à 1750) James W.P. Campbell, Wren, architectural research and the history of trades in the early Royal SocietyOlga Medvedkova, La Maison de Glace, ou l’architecture comme science expérimentaleJorge Galindo Díaz, The Royal Academy of Mathematics in Barcelona and the trade-guild tradition crisis (1720-1793) Hélène Rousteau-Chambon, L’enseignement des mathématiques dans la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle au sein de l’Académie royale d’architectureAnthony Gerbino, The Académie royale des sciences and the gardens of VersaillesII. Cultural historyReed Benhamou, Sociabilité and the écoles de dessinIsabelle C. Demarte, Détournements d’auteur: les surprises de l’épistolarité dans la Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie de Denis DiderotStéphane Roy, The art of trade and the economics of taste: the English print market in Paris, 1770-1800Fabienne Moore, 1711: the advent of Homer in French prose – an anatomy of Mme Dacier’s ground-breaking translationIII. Luxury in the eighteenth centuryFelicia Gottmann, Materialism and morality: Diderot and Sade in light of the luxury debateAntoine Hatzenberger, Luxe d’ostentation et luxe de mollesse: la critique rousseauiste des carrossesRalph R. McLean, Storming the castle of indolence: rescuing virtue from luxury in the works of James Thomson and Thomas BlackwellMatthew Niblett, The death of Puritanism? Protestant Dissent and the problem of luxury in eighteenth-century EnglandIV. AutobiographyCarol Merriam and John Sainsbury (ed.) The Life of John WilkesV. RousseauNathan Martin, An unknown Rousseau autograph: the Neuchâtel manuscript of NOTES, en Musique