ISBN:
9780230510159
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (308 pages)
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DDC:
303.482415
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume. As well as focusing on the reception of specific writers in Ireland, the book also considers broader areas like the Irish theatre, literacy in French and the availability of French books.
Abstract:
Cover -- Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800 -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- Part I Irish Readers and Readings -- 1 Readership in French: the Irish Experience -- 2 Irish Literary Review Magazines and Enlightenment France: 1730-1790 -- 3 Montesquieu and Burke -- 4 Voltaire's Reception in Ireland -- 5 Rousseau in Eighteenth-Century Irish Journals 'A Wanton and Romantic Imagination' -- 6 French Scientific Innovation in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dublin: the Hydrogen Balloon Experiments of Richard Crosbie (1783-1785) -- Part II Ireland Seen from France -- 7 Attitudes towards Ireland and the Irish in Enlightenment France -- 8 Voltaire's View of the Irish -- Part III Tools of Transmission -- 9 The Trade in French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland -- 10 Ireland and the French Theatre -- 11 Irish Church Libraries and the French Enlightenment -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 Literary Review Magazines Printed in Ireland, 1700-1790 -- Appendix 2 List of Books Connected with the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800 -- Index.
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