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Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment : repurposing the past /

Despite its rhetoric of rupture and rejection of tradition, Enlightenment thinkers sculpted the identity of their movement and projected it into the future via reflection on the past. This volume seeks to explore how the Enlightenment was structured by transmission of older ideas, what processes def...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Roman, Hanna (Editor), Sabee, Olivia (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Liverpool : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, [2025].
Series:	Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2025:07.
Subjects:	France > Intellectual life > 18th century. Social evolution > History > 18th century. Culture diffusion > France > 18th century. French literature > History and criticism. Enlightenment > France. French literature.

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