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Author : Rémy G. Saisselin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608160535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Literary Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century France written by Rémy G. Saisselin and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rémy Gilbert Saisselin
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Literary Enterprise in Eighteenth-century France written by Rémy Gilbert Saisselin and published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and fascinating study of eighteenth-century French literary culture, Rémy G. Saisselin abandons the emphasis on literary genres and the history of ideas that has long characterized traditional literary histories. Instead he introduces the concept of "literary spaces" - the library, the Temple of Fame, and the French version of Grub Street - to examine the changing values and expectations associated with a literary career in the Old Régime. Each of these major perspectives is analyzed through representative men of letters and their works; some, like Voltaire, are still well known in modern scholarly histories, while others are perhaps undeservedly forgotten. Saisselin holds that the literary life of eighteenth-century France cannot be understood solely in terms of the definitions laid down by the philosophes, for literary histories are written according to the point of view that has prevailed. Rather, his study includes an examination of the entire milieu within which the would-be author had to establish himself, ranging from publishers to censors to hacks, journalists, scholars, and philosophes. The result is witty and humane scholarship which will appeal not only to those with a professional interest in French literature, but to lovers of Swift, Pope, Johnson, and the whole world of books and authorship.
Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521300094
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive 1997 account of eighteenth-century literary criticism is now available in paperback.
Author : H. B. Nisbet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521317207
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 4, The Eighteenth Century written by H. B. Nisbet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800. Unlike previous histories, it is not just a chronological survey of critical writing, but a multidisciplinary investigation of how the understanding of literature and its various genres was transformed, at the start of the modern era, by developments in philosophy, psychology, the natural sciences, linguistics, and other disciplines, as well as in society at large. In the process, modern literary theory - at first often implicit in literary texts themselves - emancipated itself from classical poetics and rhetoric, and literary criticism emerged as a full-time professional activity catering for an expanding literate public. The volume is international both in coverage and in authorship. Extensive bibliographies provide guidance for further specialised study.
Author : Rémy Gilbert Saisselin
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Literary Enterprise in Eighteenth-century France written by Rémy Gilbert Saisselin and published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and fascinating study of eighteenth-century French literary culture, Rémy G. Saisselin abandons the emphasis on literary genres and the history of ideas that has long characterized traditional literary histories. Instead he introduces the concept of "literary spaces" - the library, the Temple of Fame, and the French version of Grub Street - to examine the changing values and expectations associated with a literary career in the Old Régime. Each of these major perspectives is analyzed through representative men of letters and their works; some, like Voltaire, are still well known in modern scholarly histories, while others are perhaps undeservedly forgotten. Saisselin holds that the literary life of eighteenth-century France cannot be understood solely in terms of the definitions laid down by the philosophes, for literary histories are written according to the point of view that has prevailed. Rather, his study includes an examination of the entire milieu within which the would-be author had to establish himself, ranging from publishers to censors to hacks, journalists, scholars, and philosophes. The result is witty and humane scholarship which will appeal not only to those with a professional interest in French literature, but to lovers of Swift, Pope, Johnson, and the whole world of books and authorship.
Author : Aurora Wolfgang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934724
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730–1782 written by Aurora Wolfgang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing four best-selling novels - by both women and men - written in the feminine voice, this book traces how the creation of women-centered salons and the emergence of a feminine poetic style engendered a new type of literature in eighteenth-century France. The author argues that writing in a female voice allowed writers of both sexes to break with classical notions of literature and style, so that they could create a modern sensibility that appealed to a larger reading public, and gave them scope to innovate with style and form. Wolfgang brings to light how the 'female voice' in literature came to embody the language of sociability, but also allowed writers to explore the domain of inter-subjectivity, while creating new bonds between writers and the reading public. Through examination of Marivaux's La Vie de Marianne, Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne, Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd, and Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses, she shows that in France, this modern 'feminine' sensibility turned the least prestigious of literary genres - the novel - into the most compelling and innovative literary form of the eighteenth century. Emphasizing how the narratives analyzed here refashioned the French literary world through their linguistic innovation and expression of new forms of subjectivity, this study claims an important role for feminine-voice narratives in shaping the field of eighteenth-century literature.
Author : Geoffrey Turnovsky
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203577
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Literary Market written by Geoffrey Turnovsky and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves—the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property—than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.
Author : Jack Censer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861605
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The French Press in the Age of Enlightenment written by Jack Censer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Stephanie Mathilde Hilger
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025786
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Women Write Back written by Stephanie Mathilde Hilger and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire's Mahomet, Johnson's Rasselas, Goethe's Werther, and Rousseau's Julie. The analysis of these women's texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.
Author : Susan Sniader Lanser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172309X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Fictions of Authority written by Susan Sniader Lanser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"—including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig—she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.
Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century written by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor F. Shevlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351888226
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The History of the Book in the West: 1700–1800 written by Eleanor F. Shevlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developments and practices that pointed to its future: ’the foundations of modern copyright; a rapid growth in the publication, circulation, and reading of periodicals; the promotion of niche marketing; alterations to distribution networks; and the emergence of the publisher as a central figure in the book trade, to name a few.’ The pace and extent of these changes varied greatly within the different sociopolitical contexts across the western world. The volume’s twenty-four articles, many of which proffer broader theoretical implications beyond their specific focus, highlight the era’s range of developments. Complementing these articles, the introductory essay provides an overview of the eighteenth-century book and milestones in its history during this period while simultaneously identifying potential directions for new scholarship.
Author : Anne C. Vila
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801858093
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment and Pathology written by Anne C. Vila and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to tell. Author Anne Vila shows that multiple junctures between the body and the mind promoted a steady commerce of speculation and discussion between science and the social salons of the time. 9 illustrations.
Author : James MacGregor Burns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024900
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Fire and Light written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With this profound and magnificent book, drawing on his deep reservoir of thought and expertise in the humanities, James MacGregor Burns takes us into the fire's center. As a 21st-century philosopher, he brings to vivid life the incandescent personalities and ideas that embody the best in Western civilization and shows us how understanding them is essential for anyone who would seek to decipher the complex problems and potentialities of the world we will live in tomorrow." --Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 "James MacGregor Burns is a national treasure, and Fire and Light is the elegiac capstone to a career devoted to understanding the seminal ideas that made America - for better and for worse - what it is." --Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Revolutionary Summer Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments. Fire and Light brings to vivid life the galaxy of revolutionary leaders of thought and action who, armed with a new sense of human possibility, driven by a hunger for change, created the modern world. Burns discovers the origins of a distinctive American Enlightenment in men like the Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and their early encounters with incendiary European ideas about liberty and equality. It was these thinker-activists who framed the United States as a grand and continuing experiment in Enlightenment principles. Today the same questions Enlightenment thinkers grappled with have taken on new urgency around the world: in the turmoil of the Arab Spring, in the former Soviet Union, and China, as well as in the United States itself. What should a nation be? What should citizens expect from their government? Who should lead and how can leadership be made both effective and accountable? What is happiness, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns's exploration of the ideals and arguments that formed the bedrock of our modern world shines a new light on these ever-important questions.
Author : David Warren Sabean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442643943
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures written by David Warren Sabean and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'selfhood' conjures up images of self-sufficiency, integrity, introspectiveness, and autonomy characteristics typically associated with 'modernity.' The seventeenth century marks the crucial transition to a new form of 'bourgeois' selfhood, although the concept goes back to the pre-modern and early modern period. A richly interdisciplinary collection, Space and Self integrates perspectives from history, history of literature, and history of art to link the issue of selfhood to the new and vital literature on space. As Space and Self shows, there have at all times been multiple paths and alternative possibilities for forming identities, marking personhood, and experiencing life as a concrete, singular individual. Positioning self and space as specific and evolving constructs, a diverse group of contributors explore how persons become embodied in particular places or inscribed in concrete space. Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their cultural specificity.
Author : Anne C. Vila
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294807
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Suffering Scholars written by Anne C. Vila and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a phenomenon illustrated by the popularity of works such as Samuel-Auguste Tissot's De la santé des gens de lettres, first published in 1768. Though hardly limited to French-speaking Europe, the link between mental endeavor and physical disorder was embraced with particular vigor there, as was the tendency to imbue intellectuals with an aura of otherness and detachment from the world. Intellectuals and artists were portrayed as peculiarly susceptible to altered states of health as well as psyche—the combination of mental intensity and somatic frailty proved both the privileges and the perils of knowledge-seeking and creative endeavor. In Suffering Scholars, Anne C. Vila focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around great intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Beginning with Tissot's work, which launched a subgenre of health advice aimed specifically at scholars, she demonstrates how writers like Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mme de Staël, responded to the "suffering scholar" syndrome and helped to shape it. She traces the ways in which this syndrome influenced the cultural perceptions of iconic personae such as the philosophe, the solitary genius, and the learned lady. By showing how crucial the so-called suffering scholar was to debates about the mind-body relation as well as to sex and sensibility, Vila sheds light on the consequences book-learning was thought to have on both the individual body and the body politic, not only in the eighteenth century but also into the decades following the Revolution.
Author : Gregory S. Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231503655
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book A Field of Honor written by Gregory S. Brown and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to the Revolution offers a multilevel study of the intellectual, social, and institutional contexts of dramatic authorship and the world of playwrights in 18th-century Paris. Brown deftly interweaves research in archival and printed materials, case studies of individual authorial strategies, the rich, often contentious historiography on the French Enlightenment and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. Drawing on a sophisticated array of recent studies, Brown positions his work against and between the grain of alternative approaches and interpretations. He combines scholarship on the history of the book with analyses of political culture and cultural identity, leaving the reader with a strong and revealing appreciation for the tensions and crosscurrents staged at the center of the 18th-century "republic of letters."
