The Fortunes of Pope’s ‘Essay on man’ in 18th-century France
Author: Richard Gilbert Knapp
Volume: 82
Series: SVEC
Publication Date: 1971
Pages: 156
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0174-6
Price: £35
About
Preface
Introduction
I. Background to the Du Resnel and Silhouette translations
A. The Voltaire-Du Resnel relationship and the problem of authorship
B. The general principles of poetic translation and specifically with regard to the two texts
II. The early French reaction to the translations
III. Voltaire’s reaction to the Essay on man
IV. Fontanes’s translation and the later French reaction
Conclusion
List of works consulted
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