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The Military Enlightenment
The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically
new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces
from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking
discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder,
the military \"band of brothers,\" and soldierly heroism all found
their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed
forces.
Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled
to learn of the many ways in which French military officers,
administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and
political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
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The Literary Market
A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live \"by the pen.\" Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves-the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property-than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. InThe Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated.The Literary Marketexamines the story of the \"birth of the author\" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society.
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Mannerist fiction : pathologies of space from Rabelais to Pynchon
Big people and little people : two cases of disproportion. Rabelais and Mannerism ; Swift and commensuratio -- Pathologies of deformation : Jonson, Sade, Pynchon. Narcissism : Jonson and the disfigured self ; Sade and the deformed body ; Hysteria : Pynchon's cartoon space -- Back to the future : From Picasso to Aristotle. Modernism and Mannerism ; Space and time for the ancients.
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Mémoires et correspondances historiques et littéraires inédits (1726 à 1816)
Extrait: \"Ce ne serait pas remplir le but que je me propose, et ce serait laisser croire peut-être que je n'ai pas bien compris tout l'intérêt qui s'attache à ces documents, si je n'en donnais que le texte. Je l'accompagnerai donc d'éclaircissements et de commentaires, toutes les fois qu'il en sera besoin; je tâcherai seulement de n'en pas faire abus...\"À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes. LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants: • Livres rares
• Livres libertins
• Livres d'Histoire
• Poésies
• Première guerre mondiale
• Jeunesse
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The Bad Taste of Others
An act of bad taste was more than a faux pas to French philosophers of the Enlightenment. To Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, and others, bad taste in the arts could be a sign of the decline of a civilization. These intellectuals, faced with the potential chaos of an expanding literary market, created seals of disapproval in order to shape the literary and cultural heritage of France in their image. InThe Bad Taste of OthersJennifer Tsien examines the power of ridicule and exclusion to shape the period's aesthetics. Tsien reveals how the philosophes consecrated themselves as the protectors of true French culture modeled on the classical, the rational, and the orderly. Their anxiety over the invasion of the Republic of Letters by hordes of hacks caused them to devise standards that justified the marginalization of worldy women, \"barbarians,\" and plebeians. While critics avoided strict definitions of good taste, they wielded the term \"bad taste\" against all popular works they wished to erase from the canon of French literature, including Renaissance poetry, biblical drama, the burlesque theater of the previous century, the essays of Montaigne, and genres associated with the so-called précieuses. Tsien's study draws attention to long-disregarded works of salon culture, such as the énigmes, and offers a new perspective on the critical legacy of Voltaire. The philosophes' open disdain for the undiscerning reading public challenges the belief that the rise of aesthetics went hand in hand with Enlightenment ideas of equality and relativism.
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Enlightened pleasures : eighteenth-century France and the new epicureanism
\"Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue - a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France primarily as the incubator of the Revolution. Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and aesthetics.\"--Publisher's description.
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Ruelles, salons et cabarets
Extrait: \"La première réunion dont nous occuperons est celle qui avait lieu toutes les semaines chez Valentin Conrart, rue Saint-Martin, au cœur de Paris. Elle se composait de Godeau, Gombauld, Chapelain, Giry, Habert de Cérizy, commissaire de l'artillerie, son frère l'abbé, Serizay, Malleville et Montmort: un petit cercle d'amis causant littérature à huis clos. Faret y entra derrière l'hommage de son livre, l'Honnête homme, et ne put garder le secret...\"À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des livres rares en partenariat avec la BNF. Beaucoup de soins sont apportés à ces versions ebook pour éviter les fautes que l'on trouve trop souvent dans des versions numériques de ces textes.LIGARAN propose des grands classiques dans les domaines suivants: • Livres rares
• Livres libertins
• Livres d'Histoire
• Poésies
• Première guerre mondiale
• Jeunesse
• Policier
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