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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Liverpool :
Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation,
[2025].
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2025:07. |
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Table of Contents:
- Reading cultural transmission through entangled histories / Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee
- Eighteenth-century French literary portraits : the repurposing of a seventeenth-century socialite practice / Cynthia Laura Vialle-Giancotti
- Chemical manipulations of nature : new social categories in Diderot's Encyclopédie / Célia Abele
- Medicine : physicians use their history to promote Enlightenment / Kathleen Wellman
- Religion : moral philosophy in the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon / Clorinda Donato
- Sociability : pleasure, violence, and theater on the militarized French periphery / Logan J. Connors
- Re-performance : navigating the ethics and aesthetics of Enlightenment dance performance for the contemporary stage / Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah
- Misanthropy : Mercier mobilizes Shakespeare against the Revolution / Joseph Harris
- An unexpected journey : from Jean-Jacques's intent to Rousseau's legacy in late-eighteenth-century France / Clovis Gladstone
- Voltaire's fanaticism, then and now / Annelle Curulla
- Feminisms : gendered approaches to French universalism(s) / Valentina Denzel and Tracy Rutler
- Victor Klemperer on Voltaire and Rousseau : the French Enlightenment and German-Jewish autobiographical writing under the Third Reich / Arvi Sepp.