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Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques: Dialogues
Dartmouth College Press 2001; US$ 39.99Rousseau's complete work, unified in English for the first time, premiers with an original translation of his Dialogues more...
Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music
Dartmouth College Press 2000; US$ 39.99Rousseau's major works, available for the first time in a uniform English edition, continue with a work that situates Rousseau's linguistic and musical theory within his larger philosophical system. more...
Reading Fabliaux
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 95.00Detailed readings of 10, and lighter discussions of many others, of the 150 medieval French bawdy poems that scholars generally find it necessary to discuss as a whole, thereby missing important individual characteristics. more...
Henry James, Women and Realism
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00A biographical and critical account of the influence of James's female friends on his work. more...
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00Though most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Châtelet (1706–49) was an accomplished writer in her own right, who published multiple editions of her scientific writings during her lifetime, as well as a translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica that is still the standard edition of that work in... more...
Image and Imagination
University Press of America 2009; US$ 32.99This interdisciplinary study of word and image in the Old French chanson de geste examines the relationship between illumination and epic narrative constructed by the medieval understanding of the imagination. The study focuses on the epic cycle 'the geste of Saint Gille,' including Aiol and Elie de Saint Gille. more...
Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
ABC-CLIO 1998; US$ 155.00Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of the eighteenth century, so much so that this era is sometimes called the Age of Voltaire. At a time when French culture dominated Europe, Voltaire dominated French culture. His influence was broad... more...
Improbable Patriot
University Press of New England 2011; US$ 15.99The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all more...
Beaumarchais and the Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their critical receptions, their influence on drama of the period... more...
Montesquieu and England
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00Gonthier sets Montesquieu's work in the context of early eighteenth-century Anglo-French relations, taking a comparative approach to show how Montesquieu's engagement with English thought and writing persisted throughout his writing career. more...









