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
Almanacs: The Smartphones of the Early Modern World
Francesco A. Morriello's Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World is the May volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book reveals how revolution shaped the circulation of information in the Atlantic world. In this blog post, Francesco A. Morriello discusses the parallels between today's smartphones and the early modern equivalent, the … Continue reading
300 years after Kangxi
Pedro Luengo’s Global architecture for eighteenth-century Beijing is the April volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book reinterprets Beijing during the eighteenth-century, revealing a new chapter in the global history of architecture. In this blog post, Pedro Luengo discusses the beginning of a new period of Chinese international relations after the death of Qing emperor Kangxi … Continue reading
Les Antiquités dépaysées
Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme's Les Antiquités dépaysées is the March volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book is the first on geopolitics of antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century. In this blog post, Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme discuss this new publication and how the volume came to exist. In recent decades there … Continue reading
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