Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052184973X
An accessible overview of the life, times and work of the eighteenth-century philosopher and writer.
Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982757X
As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings. The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources. The essays demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today.
Author : Patrick Riley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521576154
Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.
Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521367691
The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.
Author : Brian Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521887089
An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author : Stuart Gillespie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1139827529
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, philosophy and science discuss the poem in its ancient contexts and in its reception both as a literary text and as a vehicle for progressive ideas. The Companion is designed both as an accessible handbook for the general reader who wishes to learn about Lucretius, and as a series of stimulating essays for students of classical antiquity and its reception. It is completely accessible to the reader who has only read Lucretius in translation.
Author : Karen O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107035112
Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737-94), one of the world's greatest historians.
Author : Nicholas Cronk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199688354
Exploring Voltaire's most important writings, the impact his work had on our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and his status as a literary celebrity at the time, Nicholas Cronk considers his continued relevance in literature, politics, and philosophy.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Drummond Bone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521786768
Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.
