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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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Covering the work of all the important women writers of the period, this study introduces readers to a range of women's writing across the breadth of the 17th century.

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.

It traces the intellectual genealogy that links Sade to his materialist forebears (d'Holbach, Condillac, Buffon, Diderot, La Mettrie, Robinet, Delisle de Sales) and shows how the germs of cruel pleasure were already present in elements of their work, as much in their rhetoric and stylistics as in their arguments.

La nature fragmentaire et incomplete des travaux critiques sur la question et son importance intrinseque ont determine l'auteur de ce livre a rouvrir l'enquete sur l'image de la Pologne a travers les oeuvres et les relations polonaises de Voltaire.

Fontanes: poète, journaliste, politicien, éducateur. A l'aube du dix-neuvième siècle, Louis de Fontanes est reconnu par ses contemporains comme un écrivain de premier ordre. Sa poésie fait époque; on l'admire comme orateur; personne ne l'égale comme critique; ses jugements font autorité, sa manière d'écrire et de parler en public est érigée en modèle. Ainsi exposer ce qu'ont été pour Fontanes la poésie et la fonction du poète, l'éloquence et le rôle de l'orateur ou celui du journaliste, c'est faire revivre à la fois un littérateur important et tout une culture rhétorique et scolaire. L'auteur fait le bilan de l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de poète, de journaliste, de professeur et d'orateur qu'a produit Fontanes avant d'accéder aux plus hautes responsabilités. Il retrace ce qu'a mené le jeune collégien des Oratoriens de Niort, poète désargenté, ami des Lumières et admirateur des philosophes, à travers les vicissitudes de la Révolution à se faire législateur, adjoint de Bonaparte et un des architectes du programme d'enseignement national qui vit le jour aux premières années du dix-neuvième siècle. En la compagnie de Fontanes on peut apercevoir ce qu'étaient les belles-lettres à la fin du dix-huitième siècle, ressentir le choc de la Révolution et discerner comment s'est construite la 'réaction' contre les misères de l'an II et de la Terreur. Le jacobinisme rejeté, on accepte le progrès scientifique des Lumières, tout en valorisant les lettres et les arts, l'Antiquité de la siècle de Louis XIV, pour conjuguer la modernité et l'héritage de l'Ancien Régime. Pour tracer le chemin tortueux des belles-lettres à l'épreuve de la liberté, Louis de Fontanes - poète des Lumières, journaliste engagé de la Révolution, proscrit et exil du Directoire, homme politique et critique acerbe du Consulat - est un guide sans pair.

Pawel Pawlikowski's Academy Award-winning 2013 film Ida has drawn acclaim and controversy. Sheila Skaff explains the film's historical setting and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film's setting and narrative. Skaff also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland.

The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius narrates the history of the church from the start of the Nestorian controversy in 428 until the death of Evagrius' employer, Patriarch Gregory of Antioch Gregory in 592.

The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.

The episcopate of Ambrose of Milan (374-97) is pivotal to understanding the developing relationship between the Christian Church and the Roman Empire. This volume includes the tenth book of his collection of letters; the letters that are preserved outside his published collection; and his funeral speeches for Valentinian II and Theodosius I.

John of Biclaro (c.590) and Isidore of Seville (c.625) authored histories that projected the Gothic achievements back on to their uncertain beginnings, transforming them from antagonists of the Roman Empire to protagonists of a new, independent Chistianity in Spain.

Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ is a particularly important work of late medieval English vernacular theology: it is seen as a landmark in the history of the official campaign to control lay access to vernacular paramystical texts.

A ground-breaking collection of essays that explore how the material and visual cultures of Ireland and its diaspora (including painting, engraving, photography, devotional objects, ritual, drama, film, television, and graphic novels) intersect with the multiple impacts and experiences of the Irish Famine, from the 1840s to the present day.

Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland offers new insights on the Irish urban experience by exploring the ways in which urban spaces, from individual buildings to streets and districts, were constructed and experienced during the nineteenth century.

Until now Jorge Luis Borges has been considered an asexual author who could not read or write about sex, but in this study historian Ariel de la Fuente reveals for the first time the relationship between Borges's sexual biography, his erotic readings, and the expression of desire and sex in his literature.

This book analyses how the idea - or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary 'politics of belonging' in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.

By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad.

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') is available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his sister to fight as a soldier? For the first time, Guillen de Castro's La fuerza de la costumbre ('The Force of Habit') is available to English and Spanish audiences with a performance-tested translation on facing pages.

By translating the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad.

A stylistic and historical study of one of the most celebrated features of Middle English alliterative poetry, the passages of vivid description. The study explores the narrative function of such descriptions, and the models for the poets' descriptive techniques.

The influence of Roland Barthes on contemporary culture has been the subject of much analysis, but never before has this influence been closely examined in relation to poetry. This innovative study traces Anglophone poetry's response to the literary and cultural theory of Barthes - from debate to adoption, adaptation and rejection.

The first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in a new movement: the Ancient Order of Hibernians.