Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 books

Through these two royalist tragedies written in 1797, the authors intended to pay homage to two martyrs of the French...  Read More >>

The myth of Sappho appears in the eighteenth century in art, literature, and philosophical thought. Inflected by...  Read More >>

This work consists of more than 180--mostly unpublished--prefaces to eighteenth-century novels. The generous accompanying...  Read More >>

"Matteo Maria Boiardo's ""Orlando Innamorato"" appears in this volume, in Alain-Rene Lesage's French translation,...  Read More >>

Jean-Marie-Jerome Fleuriot de Langle, a contemporary of Beaumarchais and Chateaubriand, is not exactly a literary...  Read More >>

The rich production of novels in France within this short period, which precedes not only the ban on novels but...  Read More >>

This work brings together all the writings related to the dispute that followed the first performance of the play...  Read More >>

Adolph von Knigge's work draws on a real event-Jean-Pierre Blanchard's ascent by balloon in August 1788--and the...  Read More >>

This eighteenth-century libertine novel is composed of two narrative-memoirs: the autobiography of a provincial...  Read More >>

The prefaces assembled in this volume illustrate the contradiction between the demand for foreign novels--which...  Read More >>

"Marivaux's short satirical story about the cup-and-ball game ""bilboquet""--omitted from the author's complete...  Read More >>

A short pamphlet defending a lost cause, the Voyage merveilleux du prince Fan-Feredin sparked a great debate on...  Read More >>

Freed by birth from all forms of prejudice, Imirce is both Candide (innocent) and Ingenu(e) (naive). As she explores...  Read More >>

Freemasonry has moved far from its origins: although some early practices survive, others have disappeared entirely....  Read More >>

This work offers an insight into the many lampoons written about Cagliostro and explores how, in the time between...  Read More >>

This work presents a chronological journey through the work of Alain-Rene Lesage. We will see in particular how...  Read More >>

"Using a surprising approach, this collection demonstrates the literary practices and obsessions of an era, all...  Read More >>

The texts offered in this collection will help readers get a sense of the diversity of the works of Jean-Jacques...  Read More >>

This pamphlet published in 1784 is a satire as well as a profound discussion about the future of the book and culture...  Read More >>

This anthology offers an overview of a now forgotten literature of entertainment and of a genre dependent on Ancien...  Read More >>

Marivaux was not afraid to take on the role of editing feuilles volantes, no matter how lowly this position was...  Read More >>

This critical anthology of twenty-three pamphlets gives an account of the media's relentless attacks on Ancien Regime...  Read More >>

The account of this journey, the manuscript for which remains miraculously intact, is the work of a perfectly unknown...  Read More >>

This book explores what happens when a lover’s lament is transplanted from the theatrical stage to the courtly chamber,...  Read More >>

Some are familiar - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - others unexpected, but together they form an extraordinary...  Read More >>