Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Brewer, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota, has published widely in the area of eighteenth-century French literature and culture. He is author of The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-editor of L'esprit créateur, an international journal of French and Francophone literature and culture. Klappentext Offers new perspectives on a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life. Zusammenfassung Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines! this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use! the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; 1. The Enlightenment today? Daniel Brewer; 2. Private lives, public space: a new social history of the Enlightenment Antoine Lilti; 3. Anthropology Andrew Curran; 4. Commerce Paul Cheney; 5. Science J. B. Shank; 6. Political thought Dan Edelstein; 7. Sex and gender, feeling and thinking: imagining women as intellectuals Julie Candler Hayes; 8. Religion Charly Coleman; 9. Art and aesthetic theory: claiming Enlightenment as viewers and critics Jennifer Milam; 10. Enlightenment literature Thomas DiPiero; 11. Philosophe/philosopher Stéphane Van Damme; 12. Music Downing A. Thomas; 13. Architecture and the Enlightenment Anthony Vidler; 14. Medicine and the body in the French Enlightenment Anne Vila; 15. Space, geography, and the global French Enlightenment Charles W. J. Withers; Guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Brewer, Daniel (University of Minnesota) Brewer
• Assisted by: Daniel Brewer (Editor), Daniel (University of Minnesota) Brewer (Editor), Brewer Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781107021488
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02148-8
• No. of pages: 265
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, History: theory & methods, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general