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This award-winning study is an expanded version of Catherine Cusset's earlier study in French, Les Romanciers du plaisir (1998). The chapters in this English-language study are lengthier, and an illuminating first chapter on Watteau's two versions of the "Cythère" painting has been added.

"It is a sobering experience for a book historian to see historians respond to his books"-so begins the article by Robert Darnton about the book devoted to his own work.

The shifting of traditional values concerning music, as well as the process through which Rameau, Rousseau, Diderot and D’Alembert transformed music from mimetic epistemological models into ones embodying formalist concerns, is the subject of the meticulous monograph presented by musicologist Claude Dauphin.

Scholars of eighteenth-century British literature and culture have been explicitly using the insights of post-colonial theory for well over a decade now, and the results have become increasingly exciting.

Smollett’s translation of Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and remained the most prominent English translation of Cervantes’s novel until the turn of the nineteenth century. What occurred with and to the translation from that moment until the present day is a curious and an intriguing story in itself, one that makes the translation all the more enigmatic.

The career of Coquebert de Montbret encompassed the world of diplomatic relations under Louis XVI, the upper ranks of the Napoleonic bureaucracy where he was Secretary General of the Ministry of manufacture and commerce, and, during the Restoration, geologist and geographer with the Académie des sciences.

C’est toujours un événement quand paraît un livre sur Saint-Simon, car son œuvre superlative ne suscite pas souvent de vocation.

This collection of essays examines the emergence of the concept of physical defect in the early modern and Enlightenment periods.

Designed for classroom use but well suited to the needs of anyone looking for an inexpensive but readable text, this edition of Moll Flanders, published in the admirable Broadview Editions series, provides an introduction, separate outlines of the life of Defoe and of the events of Defoe’s time, a reliable first-edition text and annotations, a select…

The publication a decade ago of The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity (1993), a collection of impressive essays edited and introduced by Lynn Hunt, marked a turning point in our encounters with the “bad books” of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

La recherche sur l’aspect philosophique de l’œuvre de Diderot s’est à ce point développée depuis quelques décennies, que le sobriquet de philosophe que lui avaient donné ses contemporains retrouve aujourd’hui ses lettres de noblesse.

Chaos theory, the common label for the mathematical study of complex dynamics, has recently had a profound impact on literary studies. The leader in this area is N.