Turmoil : instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century francophone text /
What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This volume proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context.The...
| Uniform Title: | Turmoil (2022) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
| Language Notes: | Texts in English or French. |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2022
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2022:05. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This volume proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context.The interdisciplinary essays in this bilingual volume provide multiple illustrations of eighteenth-century instability and insecurity, as well as subsequent adjustments to a post-turmoil new normal. Each instance illuminates human resilience and the mechanisms of post-turmoil elasticity and adaptation in Enlightenment, revolutionary and post-revolutionary writing by female authors Charrière and Monbart, in publications by male authors Beaumarchais, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chamfort, Dupaty, Raynal, Sade and Voltaire, and also in writing by relatively unknown authors, journalists and critics, who capture the turmoil of the global francophone eighteenth-century world. Thetop... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800855052 1800855052 |