Fr5 18th century reading

Fr5 Revolutions in Writing, 1700-1900
Introductory Material
Burgwinkle, William, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson (eds), The Cambridge
History of French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. **
Chapters
Hollier, Denis (ed.), A New History of French Literature (Cambridge Mass: Harvard
University Press, 1989)
Kay, Sarah, Cave, Terence & Bowie, Malcolm, A Short History of French Literature
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003-06)
Journal Articles
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
P700.c.739 (North Wing, Floor 2 or, for latest edition, pigeon hole: W. 977)
Eighteenth-Century Studies
P700.c.373 (North Wing, Floor 2)
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC), Voltaire Foundation, Oxford
735:07 c.1.2-….(North Wing, Floor 3)
Secondary Material
*Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, Le barbier de Séville, Le mariage de
Figaro, La mère coupable
Biography:
Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre, Beaumarchais: Le voltigeur des Lumières (Paris: Gallimard,
1996)
Lever, Maurice, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (Paris: Fayard, 1999-2004) (3
vols)
Morton, Brian N. and Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais: a Bibliography (Ann Arbor:
Olivia Hill Press, 1988)
Pomeau, René, Beaumarchais ou la bizarre destinée (Paris: PUF, 1977)
Individual Plays:
Dunkley, John, Beaumarchais: Le Barbier de Seville (London: Grant and Cutler, 1991)
Niklaus, Robert, Beaumarchais: Le mariage de Figaro (London: Grant and Cutler, 1983)
Pugh, A.R., Beaumarchais: Le mariage de Figaro: An interpretation (London:
Macmillan, 1970)
Francis, R.A., ‘Figaro in changing times: Beaumarchais’ La mère coupable’, British
journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18, no.1 (1995), 19-31.
Runte, Roseann, ‘Beaumarchais’s La mère coupable’, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 29,
no. 2 (1982) 181-9
General Studies:
Conesa, Gabriel, La trilogie de Beaumarchais (Paris: PUF, 1985)
Delon, Michel, ‘Beaumarchais et l’autre révolution’, Europe, 528 (April, 1973), 79-88.
*Diderot, Denis, Le neveu de Rameau, Le supplément au voyage de Bougainville
Individual Works:
Adert, Laurent, ‘L’or est tout: la représentation de l’argent dans Le neveu de Rameau’, in
Etre riche su siècle de Voltaire (Geneva: Droz, 1996), pp. 297-310
Albertan-Coppola, Sylviane, ‘Rira bien qui rira le dernier’, Autour du Neveu de Rameau
de Diderot (Paris: Champion, 1991)
Benrekassa, G., ‘Dit et non-dit idéologique: à propos du Supplément au voyage de
Bougainville, Dix-huitième siècle 5, 1975
Jimack, Peter, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (London: Grant & Cutler, 1988)
Saint-Amand, Pierre, ‘Vagabondage sur Diderot: à propos du Neveu de Rameau, Stanford
French Review 1993 (no17 (1)), pp. 95-108
General Studies:
Anderson, Wylda, Diderot’s Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990)
Bremner, Geoffrey, Order & Chance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
Brewer, Daniel, The Discourse of Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1993)
Furbank, P.N., Diderot: A critical biography (London: Secker & Warburg, 1992)
Strugnell, Anthony, Diderot’s Politics (The Hague, 1983)
*Prévost, abbé, Manon Lescaut
Albertane Coppola, Sylviane, Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut (Paris: PUF, 1995)
Coleman, Patrick, Reparative Realism: Mourning & Modernity on the French Novel,
1730-1830 (Geneva: Droz, 1998)
Démoris, René, Le silence de Manon (Paris: PUF, 1995)
Francis, R.A., The abbé Prévost’s First-Person Narrators (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation,
1993)
Segal, Naomi, The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Thommeret, Loic, La mémoire créatrice: essai sur l’écriture de soi au XVIIIème siècle
(Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006)
*Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, Zadig, Micromégas, Candide, L’Ingénu
The Contes:
Braun, Theodore, 'Voltaire and his contes: a review essay on interpretations offered by
Roy S. Wolper, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 212 (1982), 312-18
Gilot, Michel, 'Fonctions de la parole dans Candide' Littératures, 9-10 (1984), 91-97
Howells, Robin, Disabled Powers: A Reading of Voltaire's Contes (Amsterdam, 1993)
Kavanagh, Thomas, The Shadows of Chance (Chicago?, 1992)
Murray, Geoffrey, Voltaire's Candide: The Protean Gardener, 1755-1762, (Geneva,
1970)
Pearson, Roger, The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's Contes philosophiques
(Oxford, 1993)
Starobinski, Jean, Le remède dans le mal: Critique et légitimation de l'artifice à l'époque
des Lumières (Paris, 1989)
Biography:
Besterman, Theodore, Voltaire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976)
Goldzink, Jean, Voltaire: La légende de saint Arouet (Paris, 1989)
Pearson, Roger, Voltaire Almighty (London: Bloomsbury, 2005)
Pomeau, René et al eds, Voltaire en son temps, 4 vols (Oxford, 1985-94)
General, critical studies:
Barthes, Roland, Le dernier des écrivains heureux', Essais critiques (Paris, 1964)
Gossman, Lionel 'Voltaire's Heavenly City', Eighteenth-century Studies, 3 (Fall 1967),
67-82
Gay, Peter, Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist (Princeton, 1959) [still of interest]
Kolving, Ulla and Mervaud, Christiane, eds Voltaire et ses combats (Oxford, 1997) 2
vols
Menant, Sylvain, L'esthétique de Voltaire (Paris: SEDES, 1995)
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