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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: La
    title: Bagatelle (1718-1719)
    sub title: a critical edition of Justus Van Effen's journal
  name:
    name part: Effen, Justus van
    name part: 1684-1735
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Schorr, James L.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Voltaire Foundation
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: fre
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "The early eighteenth century was a vibrant period for European journalism. Already the author of several journals including the first spectator in French (Le Misanthrope), Justus van Effen attempted to capture the Regency spirit in France with La Bagatelle, also modelled on the English Spectator. Characterised by their overtly ironic tone, the Bagatelliste's comments range from witty observations on contemporary society or literary controversies to bolder and more subversive reflections on the principles of inheritance or religious orthodoxy. Produced as a twice-weekly quarter sheet, La Bagatelle included short works of poetry and prose; brevity and stealth were its tools and its defences. In this first critical edition of La Bagatelle, James L. Schorr uncovers the sources of each periodical essay, and situates Van Effen's ironic commentaries in their social and cultural context. Tracing the influence of classical as well as contemporary English writers, Schorr also explores an evolution in the character of the Bagatelliste himself, from the seventeenth-century 'man of science' to the philosophe of the Enlightenment. Containing substantive textual commentary and variants from the 1718-19 and 1722-24 issues, Schorr's critical edition represents a major addition to our knowledge of early eighteenth-century French journalism and the intellectual climate in which it flourished."--Page 4 of cover.
  table of contents: Introduction : a Spectator for the Regency : i. Discours ironiques -- ii. Text -- La Bagatelle, OU Discours ironiques oú l'on prête des sophismes ingénieux au vice et à l'extravagance pour en faire mieux sentir le ridicule -- Appendix -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
  note: edited by James L. Schorr.
  note: Text in French with commentary in English.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Effen, Justus van
      name part: 1684-1735
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: France
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 18th century
    genre: Periodicals
  subject:
    topic: French prose literature
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: BJ1562 .E3 2014
  classification: PQ2105.A2 S8 2014 v.11
  classification: 844.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2014:11
  identifier: 9780729411493
  identifier: 0729411494
  identifier: 2014486118
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 140701
    record change date: 20151206125735.0
    record identifier: in00003509310
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng