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The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99The Collected Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Volume 11. more...
The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 39.99A new English translation, the first to be based on the definitive French Pleiade edition. more...
Autobiographical, Scientific, Religious, Moral, and Literary Writings
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 69.99Noteworthy short pieces from Rousseau, most of which have never been translated into English before now. more...
A Perceforest Reader
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.57Perceforest' is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents... more...
Balzac's Omelette
Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 9.95Full of surprise and insights, Balzac?s Omelette invites you to taste anew French literature and cuisine. more...
Medievalist Enlightenment
Boydell & Brewer 2013; US$ 85.00The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out. more...
Aliscans
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 419.00For the first time, this volume presents a German translation of the Old French heroic epic Aliscans, which served as a template for Wolfram von Eschenbach?s novel in verse, Willehalm, one of the most important works of the German Middle Ages and in world literature. The primary source for the text is the edition based on the Venetian manuscript M... 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...
Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book takes a new approach to questions of gender and authorship. Examining French literature from the medieval period, it looks not at historical women writers but at female characters in fictional narratives who engage in literary activity. Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting... more...
Das mathematische und naturphilosophische Lernen und Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Springer 2012; US$ 47.99Die französische Marquise Émilie du Châtelet war zu ihren Lebzeiten eine weit über die Grenzen Frankreichs bekannte Mathematikerin und Naturphilosophin. Dies ist erstaunlich, da ihr und ihren Geschlechtsgenossinnen in der Epoche der Aufklärung der Zugang zu den höheren Bildungsinstitutionen verwehrt war. Das vorliegende... more...









