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Crebillon Fils: Techniques of the Novel: 1972 by P.V. Conroy
Booksplease Price: £64.18The 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... -
Jerome Lalande, Journal d'un Voyage en Angleterre 1763: 1980 by Jerome Lalande
Booksplease Price: £97.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729402378Author Jerome LalandeFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
![Aspects of Contemporary Society in "Gil Blas": 1973 by K.W. Carson](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1357109/1356692/9780729401944__60830.1695322900.jpg?c=1 "Aspects of Contemporary Society in "Gil Blas": 1973 by K.W. Carson")
Aspects of Contemporary Society in "Gil Blas": 1973 by K.W. Carson
Booksplease Price: £64.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401944Author K.W. CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Patriotism and Reform in Nordic Universities during the Long Eighteenth Century by Mikkel Munthe Jensen 9781802078152
Booksplease Price: £97.93Only a few studies have dealt in depth with how, let alone why, Nordic academia and its learned cosmopolitan legacy were challenged and transformed as a consequence of the political claims of the... -
Jean-Jacques Dortour de Mairan and the Geneva Connection: Scientific Networking in the Eighteenth Century: 1996 by Ellen McNiven Hine 9780729405287
Booksplease Price: £97.93This study illustrates the significance of Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan's networking in the spread of Enlightenment thought. It focuses primarily on the unpublished correspondence between Mairan... -
Guide to the Published Works of Benjamin Constant: 1985 by C.P. Courtney 9780729403306
Booksplease Price: £98.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729403306Author C.P. CourtneyFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Interpreting the Ancien Regime by David Bien 9780729411448
Booksplease Price: £97.93The work of David Bien, one of America's foremost historians of eighteenth-century France, transformed our understanding of the ancien regime and the origins of the French Revolution. The editors... -
Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in His Major Works: 1998 by Walter E. Rex 9780729406208
Booksplease Price: £98.23The exhilarating brilliance of Diderot's ideas combined with the intractable difficulties we encounters in his writings place him among the most challenging and controversial of the philosophes. This... -
Specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias, 1650-1800: a tribute to Frank Kafker by Jeff Loveland 9781837641468
Booksplease Price: £97.93During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the number of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias grew from a trickle to a flood, while the number of disciplines they were devoted to grew... -
The Literary Doctrines of Jean-Francois Marmontel: 1982 by Michael Cardy 9780729402873
Booksplease Price: £97.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729402873Author Michael CardyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
Rousseau and the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Memory of R.A.Leigh by Marian Hobson 9780729404341
Booksplease Price: £93.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729404341Author Marian HobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 451Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher... -
The Dumb Show: Image and Society in the Works of William Hogarth: 1997 by Frederic Ogee 9780729405546
Booksplease Price: £98.23During the first half of the eighteenth century in England the 'forces of progress' became increasingly conservative as their grip on power was confirmed. Hogarth's position as the promoter of an... -
History and the literary: a method of interdisciplinary enquiry into seventeenth- to twentieth-century France: 2025 Kate E. Tunstall 9781835536797
Booksplease Price: £87.86This book makes available in English for the first time the work of the pioneering French interdisciplinary research group, Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur l'Histoire du Litteraire, better... -
La Société littéraire de Lausanne: Sociabilité et débats de réforme: 2025 Damiano Bardelli 9781836240402
Booksplease Price: £97.93Sise au croisement des principaux axes routiers du continent, dans le dernier tiers du XVIIIe siecle Lausanne accueille une florissante communaute d'etrangers - plus ou moins titres, plus ou moins... -
Voltaire's British Visitors: 1967 by Sir Gavin De Beer 9780729406949
Booksplease Price: £64.77In Voltaire's British visitors, Sir Gavin de Beer and André-Michel Rousseau have collected accounts of one hundred and fifty visits by British travellers to Voltaire in Switzerland, where he spent... -
Theories of Ballet in the Age of the Encyclopedie by Olivia Sabee
Booksplease Price: £87.48In Enlightenment Europe, a new form of pantomime ballet emerged, through the dual channels of theorization in print and experimentation onstage. Emphasizing eighteenth-century ballet's construction... -
Voltaire's Tancréde: 1968 by John S. Henderson
Booksplease Price: £64.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729401555Author John S. HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Voltaire... -
Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature by Jessica Stacey 9781800856004
Booksplease Price: £86.68How do communities tell and re-tell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how... -
The Map Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: Letters to the London Map Sellers by Mary Sponberg Pedley 9780729407120
Booksplease Price: £97.93This 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... -
Diderot, Philosopher of Energy: The Development of His Concept of Physical Energy, 1745-69: 1988 by B.Lynne Dixon 9780729403665
Booksplease Price: £97.93The 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: £98.23In 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: £97.93The 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: £64.18Apologies 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: £30.65Apologies 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: £97.93In 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: £64.77Apologies 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: £99.53Sold 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: £97.93The 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: £97.93Enlightenment 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: £98.23By 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: £97.93Part 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: £97.93'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: £98.23'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: £30.43Apologies 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: £34.70Apologies 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: £97.93After 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... -
Jean François de la Harpe, 'Letters to the Shuvalovs': 1973 by Jean-Francois De La Harpe
Booksplease Price: £64.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400190Author Jean-Francois De La HarpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Voltaire... -
Les Lumières de la jeunesse: Les réécritures pour le jeune public au XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle by Ugo Dionne
Booksplease Price: £97.93Le siècle des Lumières constitue un moment important dans l’émergence de la littérature pour la jeunesse en France. La production destinée aux jeunes lecteurs rassemble alors non seulement des... -
John Locke as Translator: Three of the Essais of Pierre Nicole in French and English by Jean S. Yolton
Booksplease Price: £97.93Pierre Nicole was a major figure in the Jansenist controversy in seventeenth-century France. His essays, which were widely read and appeared in various editions during his lifetime, cover a broad... -
Paul Rapin Thoyras and the art of eighteenth-century historiography by Miriam Franchina 9781800859890
Booksplease Price: £86.68This is the first book on the genesis, impact and reception of the most-widely read History of England of the early 18th century: Paul Rapin Thoyras' Histoire d'Angleterre (1724-27). The Histoire and...