Voltaire, the Enlightenment and the Comic Mode

Essays in Honor of Jean Sareil
Herausgegeben:Maxine G. Cutler

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Voltaire, the Enlightenment and the Comic Mode: Essays in Honor of Jean Sareil pays homage to a distinguished scholar, writer and teacher. The articles, written by eminent European and American scholars, bear on Professor Sareil's central academic interests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 61289
• Neuausg.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780820412894
• ISBN-10: 0820412899
• Artikelnr.: 24476388

Autorenporträt

The Contributors: S. Balayé, J.H. Brumfitt, M.G. Cutler, B. Didier, R.A. Katz, J. Macary, R.A. Maguire, H. Mason, G. May, G. May, R. Mortier, R. Niklaus, R. Pomeau, O.M. Ragusa, P. Rétat, K.-L. Selig

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Voltaire as historian, playwright and polemicist - The Enlightenment: Diderot, Rousseau, eighteenth-century French fiction, and the legacy of the Enlightenment in France, Italy (Alfieri) and Russia (Gogol) - The Comic Mode and its techniques in La Fontaine, Jane Austen and Proust.

Rezensionen

"What recommends so highly this testimonial volume in honor of the scholar and professor Jean Sareil is how effectively the collection of articles interwines ... important eighteenth-century themes." (Christine Clark-Evans, Eighteenth-Century Studies)