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Diderot, Philosopher of Energy: The Development of His Concept of Physical Energy, 1745-69: 1988 by B.Lynne Dixon 9780729403665
Booksplease Price: $190.96The title of this work may seem to beg an important question, since it rests on the assumption that Diderot has a 'concept of physical energy'. Indeed the aim of the study is, in part, to assemble... -
Edward Gibbon: Bicentenary Essays: 1997 by David Womersley 9780729405522
Booksplease Price: $191.55In the summer of 1994, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Gibbon's death, a group of scholars gathered in Oxford to commemorate and explore his achievement, producing this volume of essays... -
The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon by Brian Norman 9780729407915
Booksplease Price: $190.96The purpose of this study is to assess the importance of Switzerland in the life and writings of Edward Gibbon. Whereas the choice of Lausanne as a place of exile for Gibbon to undo his youthful... -
The Enlightenment and Science in Eighteenth-Century France: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged: 1973 by Colm Kiernan 9780729400602
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400602Author Colm KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Marivaux: Jeu Et Surprises De L'amour by Pierre Frantz 9780729409964
Booksplease Price: $59.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729409964Author Pierre FrantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Policing and urban society in eighteenth-century Paris: 2024 Pascal Bastien 9781835536766
Booksplease Price: $190.96In the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public places and promenades), police forces and policing... -
Miscellany/Mélanges: 1959 by Theodore Besterman 9780729401395
Booksplease Price: $126.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401395Author Theodore BestermanFormat HardbackPage Count 521Imprint Voltaire... -
Delisle De Sales: Philosophe de la Nature (1741-1816): 1982 by Pierre Malandain
Booksplease Price: $194.08Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are not available for purchase.Book InformationISBN 9780729402705Author Pierre MalandainFormat HardbackPage Count 792Imprint Voltaire... -
The Latin Language and the Enlightenment by Floris Verhaart
Booksplease Price: $190.96The long eighteenth century is often seen as the age ‘when Europe spoke French’. After all, many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment were French and even a good number of authors in other... -
Inventions of Enlightenment Since 1800: Concepts of Lumières, Enlightenment and Aufklärung by Élisabeth Décultot 9781802078763
Booksplease Price: $190.96Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century... -
Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel: 1999 by Jenny Mander 9780729406246
Booksplease Price: $191.55By according a central place to the history of reading, Circles of learning radically rethinks the nature of first-person narrative during this period and reconsiders its relation to the... -
Innovation and Renewal: The Study of the Theatrical Works of Diderot: 1989 by D. F. Connon 9780729403719
Booksplease Price: $190.96Part one begins by examining the nature of Diderot's theatrical revolution as it is revealed in the works of dramatic theory, the Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel and De la poesie dramatique, as well... -
The Enlightenment of Age: Women, Letters and Growing Old in Eighteenth-century France by Joan Hinde Stewart 9780729410014
Booksplease Price: $190.96'Women seem to be destined solely for our pleasure. When they no longer have that attraction, they have lost everything' (letter from Diderot to Sophie Volland, 1762). How typical was this view of... -
La Fureur de nuire: échanges pamphlétaires entre philosophes et antiphilosophes (1750-1770) by Olivier Ferret 9780729408912
Booksplease Price: $191.55'Libelles diffamatoires', 'écrits scandaleux', 'lettres anonymes', 'histoires forgées à plaisir': autant de manifestations, explique Voltaire à Frédéric II en 1739 de la 'fureur de nuire' de ceux qui... -
Le Dictionnaire Philosophique De Voltaire: Nouvelle Edition Augmentee by Christiane Mervaud 9780729409629
Booksplease Price: $59.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729409629Author Christiane MervaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Voltaire... -
Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative by James Fowler 9780729407380
Booksplease Price: $67.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729407380Author James FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Huguenot memory, 1689-1757: Narratives of imprisonment, enslavement and exile by Nora Baker 9781805966043
Booksplease Price: $190.96After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), an estimated 150,000-200,000 French Protestants left their homeland, seeking the freedom to practise their religion without molestation from the... -
Enlightenment at court: Patrons, philosophes, and reformers in eighteenth-century Europe by Thomas Biskup
Booksplease Price: $169.03This is the first comprehensive analysis of the royal and princely courts of Europe as important places of Enlightenment. The households of European rulers remained central to politics and culture... -
Messengers of empire: Print and revolution in the Atlantic World by Francesco A. Morriello
Booksplease Price: $190.96Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World examines how news and information moved across the Atlantic world during the Age of Sail. It provides a ground-breaking look at how... -
Gambling: A Social and Moral Problem in France, 1685-1792: 1985 by John Dunkley 9780729403269
Booksplease Price: $190.96Preface Introduction 1. The extent of the problem 2. Gambling and the law 3. The early moralists and the emergence of agreement, 1685-1714 4. Two disputes: Natural Law and theology 5. The later... -
Some Eighteenth-Century Voltaire Editions Unknown to Bengesco: fourth edition, revised and much enlarged: 1973 by Theodore Besterman 9780729401951
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401951Author Theodore BestermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Voltaire... -
Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the Philosophes: 1994 by Graham Gargett 9780729404839
Booksplease Price: $192.52Jacob Vernet (1698-1789) was the most important and influential Genevan pastor of his day, successively holding the posts of Professor of Belles-Lettres (1739) and of Theology (1756) at the city's... -
The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the 'Encyclopedie': 1996 by Frank A. Kafker 9780729405218
Booksplease Price: $190.96This collective biography examines the similarities and differences among the 140 collaborators identified as having written articles for the seventeen folio volumes of text. It discusses the... -
Le Comte d'Antraigues: Un Disciple Aristocrate de J.-J.Rousseau: De la fascination au reniement, 1782-97: 1991 by Roger Barny 9780729404051
Booksplease Price: $191.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729404051Author Roger BarnyFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Correspondence Complete de Rousseau 8: 1761, Lettres 1215-1423 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780729406628
Booksplease Price: $180.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729406628Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat HardbackPage Count 413Imprint Voltaire... -
The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities by Catherine Jaffe 9781802075137
Booksplease Price: $190.96What are the stories that we tell about ourselves and others, and how do those stories contribute to the construction of a collective memory and national identity? The Black Legend—the representation... -
Siecle de Voltaire: Hommage a Rene Pomeau by Christiane Mervaud 9780729403528
Booksplease Price: $195.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403528Author Christiane MervaudFormat HardbackPage Count 1013Imprint Voltaire... -
Voltaire and His World: Studies Presented to W.H.Barber by R.J. Howells 9780729403320
Booksplease Price: $191.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403320Author R.J. HowellsFormat HardbackPage Count 429Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Voltaire's Concept of International Order: 1965 by Merle L. Perkins 9780729401296
Booksplease Price: $126.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401296Author Merle L. PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Essay competitions in the long eighteenth century: Writing to win the prize by Avi S. Lifschitz 9781805968849
Booksplease Price: $190.96Eighteenth-century essay competitions epitomised the tensions and contradictions that characterised the Enlightenment in general, and especially its media of communication and venues of sociability... -
Voltaire and the Form of the Novel: 1976 by Douglas A. Bonneville 9780729400350
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400350Author Douglas A. BonnevilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint Voltaire... -
Themiseul de Saint-Hyacinthe, 1684-1746: 1984 by Elisabeth Carayol 9780729403085
Booksplease Price: $190.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403085Author Elisabeth CarayolFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Difficultes sur la religion proposees au pere Malebranche: edition critique d'apres un manuscrit inedit: 1982 by Robert Challe 9780729402897
Booksplease Price: $192.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729402897Author Frederic DeloffreFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Rococo Echo: Art, History and Historiography from Cochin to Coppola by Melissa Lee Hyde 9780729411585
Booksplease Price: $191.55Intermittently in and out of fashion, the persistence of the Rococo from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first is clear. From painting, print and photography, to furniture, fashion and film, the... -
Voltaire on Shakespeare: 1967 by Theodore Besterman 9780729401524
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401524Author Theodore BestermanFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Voltaire... -
Sir Everard Fawkener, friend and correspondent of Voltaire: 1975 by Norma Perry
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400268Author Norma PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
The Interdisciplinary Century: tensions and convergences in eighteen-century art, history and literature by Julia V. Douthwaite 9780729408585
Booksplease Price: $191.55Judging by most contemporary accounts, the virtues of cross-disciplinary research, teaching and scholarship are above reproach. Conference organisers announce with pride that 'l'interdisciplinarite a... -
Voltaire's Comic Theatre: composition, conflict and critics: 1975 by Lilian Willens 9780729400312
Booksplease Price: $190.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400312Author Lilian WillensFormat PaperbackPage Count 191Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Voltaire on War and Peace: 1976 by Henry Meyer 9780729400237
Booksplease Price: $125.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400237Author Henry MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Miscellany / Mélanges: 1989 by Haydn Mason
Booksplease Price: $191.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403733Author Haydn MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher...