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The Search for Enlightenment: Introduction to Eighteenth-Century French Writing

The Search for Enlightenment: Introduction to Eighteenth-Century French Writing

Robbins, Jeremy
Leigh, John

Paperback

Series: New Readings

FrenchLiterary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 0715628399
ISBN13: 9780715628393
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 21 1999
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

This up-to-date introduction to the French Enlightenment corrects the view that the writers of the period were a mere stopover to modernity. It discusses current debates that A-level and first-year students need to know today. Voltaire agonised over the fact that his 'age of critique' followed Louis XIV's much more important 'age of genius'.Church religion was dispensed with, but not religion itself. Enlightenment was a fierce battle that lacked a predetermined outcome. The book covers key exam literature, in particular Voltaire, Diderot, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Montesquieu and also Rivarol, Sedaine, Palissot, theatre, gender issues, and feminism.

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