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This work places Diderot’s fascination with anatomical anomalies or monsters within the context of the history of ideas, philosophy, and science. By chronicling the ideological …

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort remains one of the most enigmatic ‘prompters’ of the French Revolution. This study analyses his rhetorical and political programmes in tandem to …

Cette étude s’inscrit dans un courant de pensée très actuel: la recherche d’un nouvel équilibre entre hommes et femmes provoque toute une efflorescence d’ouvrages et d’articles sur …

Recent debates around the French Revolution have questioned the need for an overall paradigm of interpretation, as the certainties underpinning both ‘classic’ and ‘revisionist’ …

L’échec de Piron fascine: homme de scène parmi les plus doués de son siècle, il fut l’un des trois premiers auteurs dramatiques de son temps, poète d’une virtuosité presque sans …

A moment in history when verbal satire, caricature, and comic performance exerted unprecedented influence on society, the Enlightenment sustained a complex, though now practically …

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly …

Mme d’Arconville échappe à tout classement: femme de lettres – auteure d’essais, de romans, de textes autobiographiques –, elle est aussi une chimiste dont les travaux furent …

Traditional historiography has tended to disregard and even deny Spain’s role in the Enlightenment, banishing the country to a benighted geographical periphery. In The Spanish …

As France moved from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, it found itself in the grip of anglomanie – a fascination with new English ideas in the domains of science and …

This book examines the rhetorical dimension of eighteenth-century natural history. It focuses on the French naturalist and literary stylist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, author …