Les Lumières de la jeunesse : les réécritures pour le jeune public au XVIIIe et au début du XIXe siècle /
The Age of Enlightenment was an important moment in the emergence of children’s literature in France. Literary output for young readers included not only original works, but also rewrites of existing texts to suit this particularly type of audience. Adapted editions, abridgements, texts based loosel...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French English |
| Language Notes: | Chiefly French with some passages translated to English. |
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Liverpool :
Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
[2023].
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2023:06. |
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| Summary: | The Age of Enlightenment was an important moment in the emergence of children’s literature in France. Literary output for young readers included not only original works, but also rewrites of existing texts to suit this particularly type of audience. Adapted editions, abridgements, texts based loosely on those from which they draw original inspiration. These rewritings are present across a diverse range of works, from the classics of antiquity to modern fiction, through historical and scientific discourse. They form a literary genre that was consolidated in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries and address various questions at the heart of Enlightenment thought, particularly in terms of education. The present collection takes an original look at the writing culture of the Enlightenment by exploring this neglected set of texts for younger audiences. Contributions address the many facets of the genre, focusing on the rewritings of works by different authors, including Cicéron, Plutarque, La Bruyère, Rousseau, Perrault, Villeneuve, Defoe, Cervantès, Fielding, Newton, Raynal and Buffon. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-347) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781802077728 1802077723 |