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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 : 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 : 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 : Allison Stedman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611484367
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Rococo Fiction in France, 1600-1715 written by Allison Stedman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the "long eighteenth century" by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo's evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and '90s, Allison Stedman unearths the seventeenth century rococo's counter-vision for the trajectory of the French monarchy and the dawn of the French Enlightenment. The first part of the study investigates the relationship between Montaigne's philosophy of literary production and those of early seventeenth-century "table-talk" novelists, libertine writers, and playwrights involved in the quarrel over Corneille's play Le Cid. She thus establishes the existence of a rococo philosophy of literary production whose goal was to innovate, to bring pleasure, and to create communities. The second part of the study explores the impact that the Duchess de Montpensier's literary portrait galleries, Jean Donneau de Vis 's periodical the Mercure Galant, and other forms of rococo literary production--by such authors as Charles Sorel, Alcide de Saint-Maurice, J.N. de Parvial and Jean de Pr chac--had in the creation of a textually mediated social sphere that served as the foundation of the publicly critical culture of the French Enlightenment. The study concludes with an investigation of the influx of salon sociability into the textually mediated social sphere during the 1690s. Stedman examines the role of interpolated literary fairy tales, proverb plays and other rococo publication strategies--in such late seventeenth-century women writers as d'Aulnoy, Lh ritier, Murat, and Durand--in transfiguring the salon from an exclusive social circle mediated by physical presence to an inclusive social diaspora mediated by texts. Rococo Fiction in France challenges established views of early modern French literary history and discusses a range of little known works in a generous and engaging manner.
Author : Vivienne Mylne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719001741
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-century French Novel written by Vivienne Mylne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 : Faith E. Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351902210
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France written by Faith E. Beasley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with the great reign of Louis XIV and designated the official canon of French literature. Beasley argues that in a rewriting of this past, the salons were reconfigured in order to advance an alternative view of this premier moment of French culture and of the literary masterpieces that developed out of it. Through her analysis of how the seventeenth century salon has been defined and transmitted to posterity, Beasley illuminates facets of France's collective memory, and the powers that constituted it in the past and that are still working to define it today.
Author : Annie Lemp Konta
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Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The History of French Literature from the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler written by Annie Lemp Konta and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris Pronin Fromberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136700854
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education written by Doris Pronin Fromberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected by changes taking place in the nation’s economy, demographics, schools, communities and families that influence political and professional decisions. These diverse historical, political economic, socio-cultural, intellectual and educational influences on early childhood education have hindered the development of a clear definition of the field. The Encyclopedia provides an opportunity to define the field against the background of these influences and relates the field of early childhood education to its diverse contexts and to the cultural and technological resources currently affecting it.
Author : Leslie R. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415672511
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education written by Leslie R. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia is a reference work about young children in the USA, designed for use by policy makers, community planners, parents of young children, teacher and early childhood educators, programme and school administrators, among others. The field of early childhood education has been affected by changes taking place in the nation's economy, demographics, schools, communities and families that influence political and professional decisions. The Encyclopedia provides an opportunity to define the field against the background of these influences and relates the field of early childhood education to its diverse contexts and to the cultural and technological resources currently affecting it.
Author : Dr Scott Carpenter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409475379
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France written by Dr Scott Carpenter and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his engagingly written and original book, Scott Carpenter analyzes multiple manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century France. Under Carpenter's thorough and systematic analysis, fraudulence emerges as a cultural preoccupation in nineteenth-century literature and society, whether it be in the form of literary mystifications, the thematic portrayal of frauds, or the privileging of falseness as an aesthetic principle. Focusing particularly on the aesthetics of fraudulence in works by Mérimée, Balzac, Baudelaire, Vidocq, Sand, and others, Carpenter places these literary representations within the context of other cultural phenomena, such as caricature, political history, and ceremonial events. As he highlights the special relationship between literary fiction and fraudulence, Carpenter argues that falseness arises as an aesthetic preoccupation in post-revolutionary France, where it introduces a blurring of limits between hitherto discrete categories. This transgression of boundaries challenges notions of authenticity and sincerity, categories that Romantic aesthetics championed at the beginning of the nineteenth century in France. Carpenter's study makes an important contribution to the cultural significance of mystification in nineteenth-century France and furthers our understanding of French literature and cultural history.
Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812222164
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Divine Art, Infernal Machine written by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation 'Divine Art, Infernal Machine' presents a history of the printing press & of the ambivalent attitudes of the public toward printers & printing since the days of Gutenberg & his business partner Johann Fust, a gentleman often tellingly confused with the notorious Doctor Faustus.
Author : Philip F. Gura
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271024837
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Crossroads of American History and Literature written by Philip F. Gura and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the Connecticut River Valley, Cotton Mather's understanding of political leadership, and the religious upheavals of the Great Awakening. In the nineteenth century, he visits such varied topics as the history of print culture in rural communities, the philological interests of the Transcendentalist Elizabeth Peabody, the craft and business of the early Amerian music trades, and Thoreau's interest in exploration literature and in the Native American. Displaying remarkable sophistication in a variety of fields that, taken together, constitute the heart of American Studies, this collection illustrates the complexity of American cultural history.
