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FRENCH STUDIES: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

FRENCH STUDIES: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY French Studies THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By T. C. NEWLAND, Senior Lecturer in French, Coventry University, and S. HARVEY, Lecturer in French, Queen Mary and Wesifield College, University of London 1. GENERAL CULTURE AND THOUGHT. The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment, ed.]. W. Yolton, Oxford, Blackwell, 1991, x + 581 pp., is a ref. work which aims to be the standard one for this period in years to come. Arranged alphabetically from absolutism to Zoffany, its scope is certainly very impressive and its list of contributors contains some distinguished names in their field of. research. A wide variety of interests is catered for here which reflects the diversity of disciplines represented. As a result there is a certain unevenness in the treatment of topics: it is noticeable that philosophy and science tend to predominate, with medicine and anthropology very much to the fore. Overall a highly ambitious project which very rarely fails to stimulate and interest. Corrado Rosso, * Aspects inidits du XVIIle siecle.· de Montesquieu a la Revolution, Pisa, Goliardica, 1991, 250 pp., contains inter alia four essays on Montesquieu and three on Diderot. Peter France, Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture, CUP, xi + 243 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies Brill

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French Studies THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY By T. C. NEWLAND, Senior Lecturer in French, Coventry University, and S. HARVEY, Lecturer in French, Queen Mary and Wesifield College, University of London 1. GENERAL CULTURE AND THOUGHT. The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment, ed.]. W. Yolton, Oxford, Blackwell, 1991, x + 581 pp., is a ref. work which aims to be the standard one for this period in years to come. Arranged alphabetically from absolutism to Zoffany, its scope is certainly very impressive and its list of contributors contains some distinguished names in their field of. research. A wide variety of interests is catered for here which reflects the diversity of disciplines represented. As a result there is a certain unevenness in the treatment of topics: it is noticeable that philosophy and science tend to predominate, with medicine and anthropology very much to the fore. Overall a highly ambitious project which very rarely fails to stimulate and interest. Corrado Rosso, * Aspects inidits du XVIIle siecle.· de Montesquieu a la Revolution, Pisa, Goliardica, 1991, 250 pp., contains inter alia four essays on Montesquieu and three on Diderot. Peter France, Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture, CUP, xi + 243

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Published: Mar 13, 1993

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