Books in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Longtemps, les historiens de la religion comme ceux de la litterature ont considere la seconde moitie du dix-huitieme siecle comme le temps du declin irremediable du sentiment religieux.

Medievalism -the appropriation of elements of medieval culture - has a long history: every century since the sixteenth has remade the Middle Ages in its own image.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This book examines the rhetorical dimension of eighteenth-century natural history. Natural history as Buffon and his contemporaries knew it remains a fascinating object of study for its breadth, its cultural openness, and its disorderly energy.

Ce volume, fruit des efforts collectifs de chercheurs des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, réunit dix-sept études consacrées aux épistolières du dix-huitième siècle. A l'aide de cas précis, il présente le rôle qu'a pu jouer la correspondance dans la vie de femmes issues des milieux géographiques, socio-économiques et religieux les plus divers. Il porte à notre attention de riches corpus trop longtemps négligés. Au moyen d'approches critiques variées, il met en évidence le pouvoir de la lettre au dix-huitième siècle et montre comment les femmes ont su alors utiliser la correspondance pour se construire une identité tout en tentant de pénétrer dans des domaines jusque-là interdits comme la science et la politique. L'étude de ces correspondances féminines de langue française permet ainsi de rendre sensible le passage graduel de la lettre féminine de la sphère intime au domaine littéraire de l'époque. Et c'est de ce lent, persévérant et audacieux envahissement de la sphère publique par les épistolières du siècle des Lumières que le présent volume entend témoigner.

This collection of eighty-nine letters written by Parisian and other European map publishers to the London map firm of Jefferys & Faden represents one of the few business archives left to us from the eighteenth-century map trade.

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.

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.

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.

Les regards croises sur les etapes de la carriere de Raynal, homme de lettres et philosophe, et sur sa pratique de l'ecriture, permettent de mesurer la realite d'une des entreprises litteraires les plus importantes du dix-huitieme siecle en confirmant l'influence de son auteur dans la societe de son temps.

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.

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.

Most of the others date from 1807, when Mme de Genlis sent her adopted son Casimir Baecker to London in an attempt to repeat the successes of his Paris harp concerts. The forty letters from Mme de Genlis are extraordinarily candid in their description of her daily activities, her financial situation, and her hopes and disappointments.

Cet ouvrage a trouve son origine dans le desir d'interroger du cote de la peinture et de la litterature l'esthetique de la premiere moitie du XVIIIe siecle, de cet age rococo qui se mefie de la grandeur.

La place de la Bible dans la correspondance de Voltaire a ete jusqu'a present largement sous-estimee: si les citations sont le plus souvent aisement reperables, les allusions et l'utilisation, plus diffuse, de tout un langage scripturaire n'avaient jamais fait l'objet d'un recensement.

Voici une édition qui contribuera sans doute à éclairer une activité encore mal connue de Voltaire, celle d'éditeur. Car de cette uvre composite qu'est le Discours de l'empereur Julien Voltaire se veut avant tout et reste bien l'organisateur, empruntant à l'empereur du IVe siècle le réquisitoire qu'il a dressé dans son Contre les Galiléens et au marquis d'Argens, son moderne et premier traducteur, la 'belle infidèle' qu'il a donnée à lire cinq ans plus tôt à ceux qui n'entendaient ni le grec ni le latin. Voltaire n'a cependant conservé le joyau que pour le servir dans une monture toute nouvelle: d'Argens avait accompagné sa traduction d'une substantielle préface et d'une annotation abondante; mais Voltaire a écarté la première et retenu un tiers seulement de la seconde, encadrant désormais le Discours de ses propres textes; en préfaces un 'Avis au lecteur' suivi d'un 'Portrait de l'empereur Julien' et d'un 'Examen du Discours'; en postface un virulent 'Supplément au Discours'. A quoi l'on ajoutera les quarante-quatre notes rédigées par l'éditeur et qui s'adjoignent aux treize notes de d'Argens qu'il a conservées; ce sont les 'nouvelles notes de divers auteurs' annoncés par la page de titre et dont quatre sont signées Damilaville, Boulanger, Bolingbroke et 'le théologien Théro': sous ces noms d'emprunt, l'éditeur ne s'est pas fait scrupule de réutiliser certains de ses textes antérieurs, pas plus qu'il n'a craint, par de simples coupes habilement opérées dans certaines notes de d'Argens, de défigurer à l'occasion la pensée du marquis quand elle se trouve contraire à la sienne. Ainsi voit-on éclairer sous ses différents aspects une activité éditoriale dont il fallait aussi pénétrer les motifs.

Vers 1750, le voyage d'agrement tend a l'emporter sur le voyage purement utilitaire et on rencontre de plus en plus de voyageurs francais desireux de decouvrir une contree 'singuliere' et d'y admirer les tableaux de maitres flamands et hollandais.

Members of the 'patrician' Enlightenment like Voltaire, Montesquieu or Diderot shared with Catholic writers common publishing constraints, common personal aspirations and, above all, common notions of the cultivated audience they wished to address.

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.