Books in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series

How was Voltaire's legacy seen in France between 1830 and 1900? This wide-ranging study uses the rich sources of the Parisian periodical and daily press to examine the evolution of Voltaire's legacy as it was contested through caricature and statuary as much as through editions and criticism of his works.

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.

La pensee de Jean-Jacques Rousseau continue d'appeler les lectures critiques les plus diverses et de susciter des interpretations parfois contradictoires. Jean-Jacques Rousseau défendit passionnément les valeurs de la communauté démocratique.Citoyen de la petite république de Genève il recueillit avec ferveur l'enseignement des Hommes illustres de Plutarque et les leçons de l'Antiquité républicaine. Mais Jean-Jacques est aussi le philosophe du XVIIIe siècle qui fit reconnaître avec le plus d'éclat son irréductible singularité. Quand il engagea sa grande entreprise autobiographique, il souligna surtout sa différence. Et dans cette quête personnelle, toute particulière, Jean-Jacques trouvait l'appui d'une conviction chrétienne protestante. Rousseau recueillait ainsi à sa manière la double tradition de la Reforme et de l'Antiquité républicaine. Mais alors que ces deux dimensions coexistaient dans la république calviniste de Genève, Rousseau fut conduit à les dissocier, dans un 'triste et grand système' qui opposait avec une douloureuse obstination les valeurs de l'Homme et celles du Citoyen. L'enquête conduite en ce livre explore les profondeurs de ce paradoxe qui fait la grandeur de Rousseau.

Voici editees pour la premiere fois integralement les lettres echangees par Frederic II et la duchesse de Saxe-Gotha, a partir des manuscrits conserves a Berlin et a Gotha.

Cet ouvrage posthume de Pierre Jourda propose une histoire du theatre de Montpellier de 1755, date de la construction de la premiere salle, a 1851.

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.

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutler demonstrates how the heteronormative bourgeois family's rise to dominance in late-eighteenth-century France had long been contested within the fictional worlds of many French authors.

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.