Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryBriefe, franz
Author: Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezières RiccoboniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : fr
Pages : 484
Book Description
If Mme de Riccoboni's novels were widely known to the reading public of the eighteenth century, her best and most original productions were reserved for the privileged few who received her letters. Mme de Riccoboni led a secluded life; she had no enemies and very few close friends. Her opinions tend to be disinterested and objective, unmotivated by spite or personal animosity. Her judgements on literary works, people and events were, however, influenced by three distinctive personal traits: her feminism, her pessimism, which grew stronger with advancing age, and her anglophilia which gradually gave way to a pronounced anglophobia. For today's reader, Mme Riccoboni's letters have a twofold interest - historical and human. On the one hand, they offer a tableau of eighteenth-century life seen from a particular viewpoint; on the other, they record the love of an older woman for a younger man. Although Mme de Riccoboni never intended her letters to be made public, she obviously wanted to please their recipients and took pains to make them interesting. This is especially true of her correspondence with David Hume, David Garrick and Robert Liston, and it is for this reason that they have been gathered into a single volume.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Enlightenment
Author: Ryan Patrick HanleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings together in five volumes the very best scholarship on the period and its legacy. It also incorporates historical and critical essays addressed to the Enlightenment' s alleged responsibility for institutions or policies prevalent in the twentieth century, including economic globalization and the Holocaust.
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
The complete works of Voltaire: Correspondence
Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Idea of Progress
Author: John Bagnell BuryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description