The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Brewer, Daniel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Containing essays by leading scholars representing a wide range of disciplines, this Companion offers new perspectives on the French Enlightenment. Clearly organized and easy to use, the volume provides a comprehensive overview of a period that marks the beginning of modern intellectual culture and political life.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781107626140
• ISBN-10: 1107626145
• Artikelnr.: 41463637

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
1. The Enlightenment today? Daniel Brewer
2. Private lives, public space: a new social history of the Enlightenment Antoine Lilti
3. Anthropology Andrew Curran
4. Commerce Paul Cheney
5. Science J. B. Shank
6. Political thought Dan Edelstein
7. Sex and gender, feeling and thinking: imagining women as intellectuals Julie Candler Hayes
8. Religion Charly Coleman
9. Art and aesthetic theory: claiming Enlightenment as viewers and critics Jennifer Milam
10. Enlightenment literature Thomas DiPiero
11. Philosophe/philosopher Stéphane Van Damme
12. Music Downing A. Thomas
13. Architecture and the Enlightenment Anthony Vidler
14. Medicine and the body in the French Enlightenment Anne Vila
15. Space, geography, and the global French Enlightenment Charles W. J. Withers
Guide to further reading.