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Author: Daniel Brewer (University of Minnesota)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.500kg
ISBN: 9781107021488
ISBN 10: 1107021480
Pages: 265
Publication Date: 30 October 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'Daniel Brewer, a leading expert on the French Age of Enlightenment, has edited a volume aimed at offering a complete overview and introduction not just to the eighteenth century and its ideas, but also to the historiographical construction of the concept of the Enlightenment ... [this book] will be a very useful resource and reference for students, whilst representing for scholars a most welcome synthesis of the debates on the Enlightenment from the 1789 Revolution onwards, as well as a timely update on what the Enlightenment is considered to be today.' Richard Langer, Forum for Modern Language Studies 'This stimulating collection of essays examines the French Enlightenment from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. ... for more advanced students this Companion will be an invaluable and irreplaceable guide to the most prominent re-evaluations of the French Enlightenment over the last two decades.' Nicholas Cronk, French Studies Daniel Brewer, a leading expert on the French Age of Enlightenment, has edited a volume aimed at offering a complete overview and introduction not just to the eighteenth century and its ideas, but also to the historiographical construction of the concept of the Enlightenment ... [this book] will be a very useful resource and reference for students, whilst representing for scholars a most welcome synthesis of the debates on the Enlightenment from the 1789 Revolution onwards, as well as a timely update on what the Enlightenment is considered to be today. Richard Langer, Forum for Modern Language Studies This stimulating collection of essays examines the French Enlightenment from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. ... for more advanced students this Companion will be an invaluable and irreplaceable guide to the most prominent re-evaluations of the French Enlightenment over the last two decades. Nicholas Cronk, French Studies
'Daniel Brewer, a leading expert on the French Age of Enlightenment, has edited a volume aimed at offering a complete overview and introduction not just to the eighteenth century and its ideas, but also to the historiographical construction of the concept of the Enlightenment ... [this book] will be a very useful resource and reference for students, whilst representing for scholars a most welcome synthesis of the debates on the Enlightenment from the 1789 Revolution onwards, as well as a timely update on what the Enlightenment is considered to be today.' Richard Langer, Forum for Modern Language Studies 'This stimulating collection of essays examines the French Enlightenment from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. ... for more advanced students this Companion will be an invaluable and irreplaceable guide to the most prominent re-evaluations of the French Enlightenment over the last two decades.' Nicholas Cronk, French Studies
Author Information
Daniel Brewer, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, has published widely in the area of eighteenth-century French literature and culture. He is author of The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-editor of L'esprit créateur, an international journal of French and Francophone literature and culture.
