History of the book; Translation; History of ideas; Paul et Virginie; Varia

Volume: 2003:12

Series: SVEC

Series Collaborators: Olivier Courcelle, EDP Sciences, Paris; Robert Darnton, Princeton University; William F. Edmiston, University of South Carolina; Patrick Graille, Orléans; Denis Grélé, Wellesley College; Peter Hallberg, Stockholm University; Ian Henderson, Griffith University, Brisbane; Lawrence Kerslake, University of Toronto; Mladen Kozul, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati; Elizabeth Rechniewski, University of Sydney; Jean-Nicolas Rieucau, PHARE, Université de Paris I; Catherine Thomas, Université de Brest; Judith P. Zinsser, Miami University<br>

Publication Date: 2003

Pages: 375

ISBN: 978-0-7294-0835-6

Price: £75


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I. History of the book
Robert Darnton, The science of piracy: a crucial ingredient in eighteenth-century publishing
II. Translation
Patrick Graille et Mladen Kozul, De la monstruosité pontificale, ou Tableau fidèle des papes de Davisson, traduit par d’Holbach: édition critique
Lawrence Kerslake, Rivarol’s evaluation and translation of Dante
Judith P. Zinsser and Olivier Courcelle, A remarkable collaboration: the marquise Du Châtelet and Alexis Clairaut
III. History of ideas
Peter Hallberg, History writing and the idea of ‘the public’ in eighteenth-century Sweden: Olof Dalin’s history of the realm
Jeff Loveland, Louis-Jean Marie Daubenton and the Encyclopédie
Elizabeth Rechniewski, References to ‘national character’ in the Encyclopédie: the western European nations
Jean-Nicolas Rieucau, Les origines de la philosophie probabiliste de Condorcet: une tentative d’interpretation
IV. Paul et Virginie
Denis Grélé, L’utopie inversée: le Paradis de Paul et Virginiede Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Ian Henderson, A new appreciation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie
V. Varia
Catherine Thomas, Le dix-huitième siècle, ou les ris et les jeux: le mythe du dix-huitième siècle chez les ‘petits romantiques’ (1830-1850)
William F. Edmiston, Atrocities of a different kind: incest and the veil in Sade’s Aline et Valcour

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