Paris And The Provinces In Eighteenth Century Prose Fiction
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Paris And The Provinces In Eighteenth Century Prose Fiction
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Author : Simon Davies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Paris And The Provinces In Eighteenth Century Prose Fiction written by Simon Davies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Studies On Voltaire And The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Haydn Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Studies On Voltaire And The Eighteenth Century written by Haydn Mason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with categories.
Paris
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Author : Colin Jones
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-04-04
Paris written by Colin Jones and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-04 with History categories.
From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the muse of nineteenth-century Impressionist painters, and much more. Jones’s masterful narrative is enhanced by numerous photographs and feature boxes—on the Bastille or Josephine Baker, for instance—that complete a colorful and comprehensive portrait of a place that has endured Vikings, Black Death, and the Nazis to emerge as the heart of a resurgent Europe. This is a thrilling companion for history buffs and backpack, or armchair, travelers alike.
A Taste For The Foreign
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Author : Ellen R. Welch
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-14
A Taste For The Foreign written by Ellen R. Welch and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Taste for the Foreign examines foreignness as a crucial aesthetic category for the development of prose fiction from Jacques Amyot’s 1547 translation of The Ethiopian Story to Antoine Galland’s early eighteenth-century version of The Thousand and One Nights. While fantastic storylines and elements of magic were increasingly shunned by a neo-classicist literary culture that valued verisimilitude above all else, writers and critics surmised that the depiction of exotic lands could offer a superior source for the novelty, variety, and marvelousness that constituted fiction’s appeal. In this sense, early modern fiction presents itself as privileged site for thinking through the literary and cultural stakes of exoticism, or the taste for the foreign. Long before the term exoticism came into common parlance in France, fiction writers thus demonstrated their understanding of the special kinds of aesthetic pleasure produced by evocations of foreignness, developing techniques to simulate those delights through imitations of the exotic. As early modern readers eagerly consumed travel narratives, maps, and international newsletters, novelists discovered ways to blur the distinction between true and imaginary representations of the foreign, tantalizing readers with an illusion of learning about the faraway lands that captured their imaginations. This book analyzes the creative appropriations of those scientific or documentary forms of writing that claimed to inform the French public about exotic places. Concentrating on the most successful examples of some of the most important sub-genres of prose fiction in the long seventeenth century—heroic romances, shorter urban novels, fictional memoirs, and extraordinary voyages—the book examines how these types of fiction creatively appropriate the scientific or documentary forms of writing that claimed to inform the French public about exotic places. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
The Cultural Origins Of The French Revolution
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Author : Roger Chartier
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1991-04-30
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 1991-04-30 with History categories.
Reknowned historian Roger Chartier 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, 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'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. -- From product description.
Preserving The Provinces
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Author : Andrew Watts
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Preserving The Provinces written by Andrew Watts and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Though famed for his vivid depictions of nineteenth-century Paris, Honoré de Balzac devoted as much of his creative energy to the provinces. This book examines the way in which he combined a theatrical tradition of anti-provincial satire with a more open celebration of French provincial life in the post-Revolutionary period. Ranging widely over texts from both within and outside La Comédie humaine, the author analyses Balzac's determination to invest the Rousseauist nostalgia for country over city with an updated rationale. A champion of central authority and absolutist government, Balzac is seen here in an unfamiliar role as the guardian of regional culture, a novelist who sought to record the diversity of France's small towns and villages before they were lost to industrialization and the railway age. Equally, the study reveals new aspects of his political engagement with questions impacting upon the provinces during the Restoration and July Monarchy, from broad issues such as agriculture and landownership, to more isolated grievances such as the implications of the 1827 Forest Code. The whole offers a fresh insight into Balzac's thought and literary aesthetic, and an assessment of his hitherto-neglected role in supporting the emergence of the regionalist novel, or roman du terroir, in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Imagining The City The Politics Of Urban Space
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Author : Christian Emden
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Imagining The City The Politics Of Urban Space written by Christian Emden and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture and society categories.
This volume is based on papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples.
Ireland And French Enlightenment 1700 1800
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Author : G. Gargett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-02-08
Ireland And French Enlightenment 1700 1800 written by G. Gargett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-08 with History categories.
By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume.
The Shaping Of French National Identity
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Author : Matthew D'Auria
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-03
The Shaping Of French National Identity written by Matthew D'Auria and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-03 with History categories.
Casts new light on of the 'official' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country's past.
The Enterprise Of Enlightenment
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Author : Terry Pratt
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
The Enterprise Of Enlightenment written by Terry Pratt and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Published on the occasion of his retirement in honour of his outstanding contribution to French Enlightenment studies, this volume explores those areas of research in which David Williams has excelled and continues to excel: literary criticism, particularly Voltaire, the history of ideas, women and Enlightenment, colonial practices and revolutionary politics. It brings together a collection of essays from some of the most prestigious international names in the field and tackles subjects which expose in all their splendid diversity the enterprise - both innovation and undertaking - of the Siècle des Lumières.