Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays on the French Enlightenment Presented to George R. Havens Hardcover - 1985

Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1985. Cloth, xix, 414 pages; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. CONTENTS: Fontenelle, Perrault, and the realignment of the arts, by Hugh M. Davidson; Historical pyrrhonism and Enlightenment historiography in France, by J.H. Brumfitt; The diamond of Courtoisie and the Gragonnades of 1681: Valincour's Vie de Francois de Lorraine, by Charles G.S. Williams; The Journal des scavans and the Lettres persanes, by Alessandro S. Crisafulli; From London to lapland: Maupertuis, Johann Bernoulli I, and La terre applatie, 1728-1738, by Harcourt Brown; Notes on making of a Philosophie: Cuenz and Bouhier, by Ira O. Wade; Sur les Me moires de Voltaire, by Jean Sareil; Voltaire's debt to the Encyclopedie in the Opinion en alphabet, by Jeanne R. Monty; Ulcerated hearts: love in Voltaire's La mort de Cesar, by Robert D. Cottrell; A reevaluation of Rousseau's political doctrine, by Virgil W. Topazio; Literature and the "natural man" in Rousseau's Emile, by James F. Hamilton; Rousseau's antifeminism in the Lettre a d'Alembert and Emile, by Richard A. Brooks; Diderot's Supple ment as pendant for La religeuse, by Otis Fellows; Diderot's artist: puppet and poet, by Douglas Bonneville; Une certaine Madame Madin, by Georges May; Subterfuges et stratege mes, ou le romanciers malgre eux, by Diana Guiragossian; Censorship and subterfuge in eighteenth-century France, by Edward P. Shaw; Bibliographic notes on the Beaumarchais-Goezman lawsuit, by Theodore Besterman; Lamartine and the philosophes, by Arnold Ages; Stendhal and the age of ideas, by Gita May; Readership in the American Enlightenment, by Paul M. Spurlin; Encyclopedism and its conscience: evolution and revolution, by Dorothy M. McGhee.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.