Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo
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Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
Madame Du Deffand And Her World
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 1994
Madame Du Deffand And Her World written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Authors, French categories.
This biography of Madame du Deffand describes the life of this highly intelligent libertine and the role she played in the social and cultural life of 18th-century France. Quoting extensively from her subject's correspondence, Craveri attempts to relive the world of the philosophes of the Enlightment, centred around Voltaire and d'Alembert, and unravels a complex world of extreme intelligence, taste and sensibility, revealing a new view of reality, full of foreboding for the future.
Madame Du Deffand Y Su Mundo
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : es
Publisher: Siruela
Release Date : 2005-02-15
Madame Du Deffand Y Su Mundo written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by Siruela this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Personaje clave para entender el espíritu del siglo XVIII francés, Madame du Deffand (1697-1780) se ha convertido en la más perfecta y lúcida encarnación de cierta enfermedad del alma, el ennui, el tedio de vivir, el escepticismo llevado a sus últimas consecuencias: el aburrimiento. En 1718 se casó con el marqués Du Deffand y, tras una discreta separación de hecho, se hizo amante del regente. Invitada habitual en la corte de Sceaux, fue íntima amiga de la duquesa Del Maine y amante del presidente del parlamento. Cerca ya de los 50 años, se decidió a formar su propio salón en París, al cual acudirían, entre otros, Voltaire, D’Alembert, Montesquieu, Madame de Staal, y el último y más apasionado amor de su vida: el escritor inglés Horace Walpole. Su extensa correspondencia descubre un estilo que, según Sainte-Beuve, es «junto al de Voltaire, en la prosa, el más clásico y puro de esta época». Madame du Deffand pasa revista a los acontecimientos de una sociedad en donde el ingenio, la defensa del gusto y el culto a la inteligencia eran valores en alza. Sin embargo, sus cartas rebasan con mucho el género de la crónica mundana, y ello porque la marquesa vive, como ha dicho Cioran, azotada por el «flagelo de la lucidez».
Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Madame Du Deffand E Il Suo Mondo written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Authors, French categories.
The Cultural Origins Of The French Revolution
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Author : Roger Chartier
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-11
The Cultural Origins Of The French Revolution written by Roger Chartier and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-11 with History categories.
Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.” Chartier has set himself two important tasks. First, while acknowledging the seminal contribution of Daniel Mornet’s Les origens intellectuelles de la Révolution française (1935), he synthesizes the half-century of scholarship that has created a sociology of culture for Revolutionary France, from education reform through widely circulated printed literature to popular expectations of government and society. Chartier goes beyond Mornet’s work, not be revising that classic text but by raising questions that would not have occurred to its author. Chartier’s second contribution is to reexamine the conventional wisdom that there is a necessary link between the profound cultural transformation of the eighteenth century (generally characterized as the Enlightenment) and the abrupt Revolutionary rupture of 1789. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution is a major work by one of the leading scholars in the field and is likely to set the intellectual agenda for future work on the subject.
Threads And Traces
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Author : Carlo Ginzburg
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2012-09-02
Threads And Traces written by Carlo Ginzburg and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-02 with History categories.
"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʾs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians"--Provided by publisher.
Extravagant Narratives
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Author : Elizabeth Jane MacArthur
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Extravagant Narratives written by Elizabeth Jane MacArthur and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize correspondences, both real and fictional, reflect the preoccupations of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her readings of the Lettres portugaises, Mme du Deffand's correspondence with Horace Walpole, and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Hlose propose an alternative to closure-oriented theories of narrative as they uncover an interplay between two forces: a tendency towards closure and meaning (metaphor) and a tendency towards openness and desire (metonymy). While such an interplay structures all narrative, the epistolary form differs from the third or first person in the extent to which metonymy predominates. The author shows how critics and editors of correspondences have attempted to control their metonymy, channeling epistolary energy into univocal meaning. By juxtaposing real and fictional epistolary works, MacArthur reveals the similarities between the two, particularly their "extravagance": ambiguity, openness, and forward-moving energy. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Letters Of Sarah Harriet Burney
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Author : Sarah Harriet Burney
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1997
The Letters Of Sarah Harriet Burney written by Sarah Harriet Burney and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This scholarly edition presents for the first time all of the known surviving letters of British novelist Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1884). The overwhelming majority of these letters--more than ninety percent--have never before been published. Burney's accomplishments, says Lorna J. Clark, have been unjustly overlooked. She published five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, all of which met with reasonable success, including Traits of Nature (1812), which sold out within three months. These letters position Burney among her fellow women writers and shed light on her relations with her publisher and her ambivalence toward her own work and her readership. Her lively observation of the literary scene evinces the range and scope of her reading, as well as her awareness of literary trends and developments. Burney was, for example, remarkably prescient in recognizing, and praising from the first, the talent of Jane Austen, and met several of the authors of her day. A challenging new perspective on family matters also emerges in the letters. The youngest child of the second marriage of Charles Burney, and the only daughter to remain unmarried, Sarah Harriet had the unenviable task of caring for her father in his later years. Her letters reveal a darker side of Dr. Burney, and also help to round out our image of a more favored daughter, Sarah Harriet's half-sister (and fellow novelist), Frances Burney. As literature, Clark observes, Burney's letters are, arguably, her best work. Thoroughly versed in the epistolary arts, she sought always to amuse and entertain her correspondents. Burney ultimately emerges as a quiet but heroic single woman, relegated to the margins of society where she struggled for independence and self-respect. Displaying literary qualities and a lively sense of humor, the letters provide a fascinating insight into the literary, political, and social life of the day.
A Woman A Man And Two Kingdoms
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Author : Francis Steegmuller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
A Woman A Man And Two Kingdoms written by Francis Steegmuller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with History categories.
Pre-revolutionary Paris comes to life in this fascinating story surrounding the correspondence between two colorful and witty society figures: the French author Louise d'Épinay and the Italian priest-diplomat Ferdinando Galiani. Their friends included Voltaire, Diderot, Melchior Grimm, and the famous women of the salons, and their letters touched upon everything from social gossip to issues of education and politics. Francis Steegmuller's book is at once a unique history and a charming account of friendship sustained in a turbulent age. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Gender Mediation And Popular Education In Venice 1760 1830
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Author : Susan Dalton
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-10-17
Gender Mediation And Popular Education In Venice 1760 1830 written by Susan Dalton and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with History categories.
Gender, Mediation, and Popular Education in Venice, 1760–1830 examines how women with enough cultural capital could turn their identity as representatives of "the public" – those on the receiving end of education – to their advantage, producing knowledge under the guise of relaying it. Author Susan Dalton looks at the question of how elite women turned their reputation for ignorance into an opportunity to establish themselves as authors at the dawn of the nineteenth century in Venice. Many literary figures saw women as a group in need of education. By deploying essentialist understandings of femininity, whereby women possessed superior moral virtue but deficient rationality, these women entered the world of print as cultural mediators, identified by contemporaries as key players in the social projects of public education and moral edification central to the European Enlightenment. Focussing on Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi and Giustina Renier Michiel, both renowned Venetian authors, Dalton introduces two well-known Italian women of letters to English-speaking scholars, re-evaluates the impact of their writing in Italy and raises questions about female authorship across Europe, broadens our conceptions of gender norms, and enriches our knowledge of a little-known period of women’s writing in Italy. This volume is an essential resource for students and scholars alike interested in women’s and gender history, early modern history and social and cultural history.