Social history; Morellet; Social anthropology; History of the book

Volume: 2005:12

Series: SVEC

Series Collaborators: Paul Benhamou, Purdue University; Benoît de Baere, Fonds de la recherche scientifique – Flandre (Université de Gand); David Garrioch, Monash University; Frank A. Kafker, University of Cincinnati, Ohio; Jeff Loveland, University of Cincinnati, Ohio; Dorothy Medlin, Winthrop University, South Carolina; Myrtille Méricam, ENS Lettres et sciences humaines, Lyon; Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Claudine Poulouin, Université de Rouen; Sean Takats, University of Michigan; Mary Trouille, Illinois State University.<br>

Publication Date: 2005

Pages: 303

ISBN: 978-0-7294-0868-4

Price: £75


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I. Besterman Prize 2005
Myrtille Méricam, Présence de l’Antiquité dans l’œuvre de Voltaire: quelques réflexions sur la figure de Jules César
Sean Takats, Science without scientists: modern cooking in the eighteenth century
II. Social history
David Garrioch, La sécularisation précoce de Paris au dix-huitième siècle
Mary Trouille, Buried alive: Genlis’s Gothic tale of marital violence in ‘Histoire de la Duchesse de C***’
III. Morellet
Dorothy Medlin, André Morellet and the Trudaines
Dorothy Medlin, ‘Vive Louis-le-désiré!’: André Morellet et la restauration de la monarchie, 1814-1817
Jeffrey Merrick, Corruption versus honnêteté: Morellet’s assessment of the French political scene in May 1774
IV. Social anthropology
Benoît De Baere, La philosophie de l’homme de Buffon et son défi à l’égard de l’‘inhumaine alliance des choses’
V. History of the book
Claudine Poulouin, Les paradoxes de la publication des textes de Fontenelle: discrétion, dissimulation, affirmation de soi
Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland, The elusive Laurent Durand, a leading publisher of the French Enlightenment
Paul Benhamou, Diffusion of forbidden books: four case studies
Summaries

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