Literature and history in the age of ideas: essays on the French Enlightenment presented to George R. Havens

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(print) xix, 414 p. ; 24 cmGEORGES MAY Foreword ix -- Preface xvii -- HUGH M . DAVIDSON Fontenelle, Perrault, and the Realignment of the Arts 3 -- J. H. BRUMFITT Historical Pyrrhonism and Enlightenment Historiography in France 15 -- CHARLES G. S. WILLIAMS The Diamond of Courtoisie and the Dragonnades of 1681: Valincour's Vie de François de Lorraine 31 -- ALESSANDRO S. CRISAFULLI The Journal des Sçavans and the Lettres Persanes 59 -- HARCOURT BROWN From London to Lapland: Maupertuis, Johann Bernoulli I, and La Terre applatie, 1728-1738 69 -- IRA O. WADE Notes on the Making of a Philosophe: Cuenz and Bouhier 97 -- JEAN SAREIL Sur les Mémoires de Voltaire 125 -- JEANNE R. MONTY Voltaire's Debt to the Encyclopédie in the Opinion en Alphabet 153 -- ROBERT D. COTTRELL Ulcerated Hearts: Love in Voltaire's La Mort de César 169 -- VIRGIL W. TOPAZIO A Réévaluation of Rousseau's Political Doctrine 179 -- JAMES F. HAMILTON Literature and the "Natural Man" in Rousseau's Emile 195 -- RICHARD A. BROOKS Rousseau's Antifeminism in the Lettre à d'Alembert and Emile 209 -- OTIS FELLOWS Diderot's Supplément as Pendant for La Religieuse 229 -- DOUGLAS BONNEVILLE Diderot's Artist: Puppet and Poet 245 -- GEORGES MAY Une certaine Madame Madin 255 -- DIANA GUIRAGOSSIAN Subterfuges et stratagèmes, ou les romanciers malgré eux 273 -- EDWARD P. SHAW Censorship and Subterfuge in Eighteenth-Century France 287 -- THEODORE BESTERMAN Bibliographie Notes on the Beaumarchais-Goezman Lawsuit 311 -- ARNOLD AGES Lamartine and the Philosophes 321 -- GITA MAY Stendhal and the Age of Ideas 343 -- PAUL M. SPURLIN Readership in the American Enlightenment 359 -- DOROTHY M. MCGHEE Encyclopedism and Its Conscience: Evolution and Revolution 377 -- A Bibliography of the Writings of George R. Havens 387 -- Notes on the Contributors 401 -- Index 40