Studies in Eighteenth Century French Literature: Presented to Robert Niklaus

by John Howard Fox (Editor)

Overview

These Studies in Eighteenth-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus were written by former students and colleagues and by his friends, to mark his retirement in 1975. The articles all relate to the French Enlightenment, Professor Niklaus's main academic interest, but vay in approach and subject. Six articles deal with aspects of the works of Diderot: his philosophy, aesthetics, narrative art and style. There are articles on Voltaire - his social, political and philosophical attitudes - and on Montesquieu, among others. The book as a whole is evidence of the continuing vitality of the Enlightenment and makes a fitting complement to Professor Niklaus's own important and lively contribution to eighteenth-century studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780859890502
Publisher:	University of Exeter Press
Publication date:	01/01/1975
Edition description:	2
Pages:	363
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 11.42(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

John Fox was Professor of Medieval French, University of Exeter

Table of Contents

W. H. BARBER Voltaire at Cirey DAVID BERRY Diderot's Optics THEODORE BESTERMAN Three Additions to Voltaire Biography MICHAEL CARTWRIGHT Diderot and the Idea of Performance and the Performer JANE MARSH DIECKMANN 'A Zerbina Penseret': A Note on Diderot's Epigraph E. L. DUTHIE L'Orage OTIS FELLOWS George Berkely, His Door and the Philosophes JOHN FOX An Eighteenth-Century Student of Medieval Literature: Bernard de La Monnoye BASIL GUY The Prince de Ligne and the Exemplification of Herois Virture in the Eighteenth Century D. R. HAGGIS Beaumarchais and the Early Balzac SUSAN HAYWARD Two Anti-Novels: Molloy and Jacques le Fataliste R.A. LEIGH Rousseau's English Pension JENNIFER LONGHURST Lesage and the Spanish Tradition J. LOUGH Who were the Philosophes? ROLAND MORTIER Un Magistrat 'ame sensible' Le President Dupaty (1746-1788) LYNETTE R. MUIR King Arthur: Style Louis XVI VIVIENNE MYLNE Dialogue as Narrative in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction NORMA PERRY French and English Merchants in the Eighteenth Century: Voltaire Revisited JACQUES PROUST De Sylvain Marechal a Maiakovki ROBERT SHACKLETON A Supposed Letter of Montesquieu in 1795 CHRISTINE M. SINGH The Lettre sur les Aveugles J. S.S SPINK The Clandestine Book Trade in 1752 LEONARD TANCOCK Reflections on the Sequel to Le Paysan parvenu ROBERT S. TATE Voltaire and the Question of Law and Order in the Eighteenth Century P. M. W. THODY Le Neveu de Rameau and the Awareness of Mediocrity P. VERNIERE Les Liasions Dangereuses: d'une moral des faits aa une moreale de la signification MARK H. WADDICOR Montesquieu and the Theatre DEREK A. WATTS Testimonies of Persecution: Four Hugenot Refugees and their Memoirs P. J. YARROW A Cosmopolitan Country Clergyman: Louis Dutens