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Voltaire Historiographer
Narrative Paradigms
Häftad, 2008
1898 kr
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Voltaire’s historical works reflect his own changing roles and preoccupations from conteur to campaigner. His groundbreaking historical output of thirty-eight texts, composed throughout his long career as a writer, is now receiving renewed critical attention.In the first study to explore the whole …
Voltaire
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
Inbunden, 2024
1704 kr
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Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works French author. This Guide offers 21st-century readers a glimpse into the multifaceted Voltaire: the thinker, rebel, writer, exile, and campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day. A wide-ranging Introduction situates the prolific …
Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text
Av Síofra Pierse, Emma M. Dunne
Häftad, 2022
1685 kr
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What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This volume proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context. …
Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres
Av James Hanrahan, Síofra Pierse
Häftad, 2015
682 kr
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This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopdiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment and an undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices. …
Women and Work in the Eighteenth-Century Francosphere
History, Art, Culture
Av Síofra Pierse, Lucille Raynal
Inbunden, 2027
1309 kr
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This book focuses on the interfaces between women and work and/or women at work, across the eighteenth-century French speaking world, primarily in text (private, historical, literary)and art. How did women retain agency through their work? These essays explore this question and underscore the value …