'The fruit of more than 25 years of research': Ralph Leigh's masterly critical edition of the Correspondance complète de Rousseau is now available for the first time as an ebook collection.
The Letters of The Duchesse d’Elbeuf: Hostile Witness to the French Revolution
The Letters of The Duchesse d'Elbeuf: Hostile Witness to the French Revolution by Colin Jones, Simon Macdonald, and Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book features previously unpublished letters written by the duchesse d'Elbeuf which offer a vivid and exciting hostile account of the French Revolution and the … Continue reading
The beginning of a friendship: the Ottoman Empire and Prussia
Irena Fliter’s Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book examines the cultural and social dynamics of Ottoman diplomacy in eighteenth-century Prussia. In this blog post, Irena Fliter introduces her new book with insights into the transformation which turned the former peripheral Prussian court into a … Continue reading
A Literary Offensive
Gemma Tidman’s The Emergence of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France: The Battle of the School Books has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book changes our understanding of when, how, and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. In this blog post, Gemma Tidman shares some insight into her new book in the form … Continue reading
Determinism and Enlightenment: the collaboration of Diderot and d’Holbach
Ruggero Sciuto’s Determinism and Enlightenment: the collaboration of Diderot and d’Holbach is the April volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book examines the theory of determinism jointly put forward by Diderot and d’Holbach to better understand their philosophy as well as their position relative both to one another and to the so-called ‘Radical Enlightenment’. In this blog … Continue reading
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