| Description |
xxii, 393 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in eighteenth-century culture ; v. 2
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Studies in eighteenth-century culture ; v. 2.
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| Note |
Papers presented at the second annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Three generations : a plausible interpretation of the French philosophes? / Louis Gottschalk -- America and the eighteenth-century community of learning / Henry Steele Commager -- The problem of scientific order versus alphabetical order in the Encyclopédie / Hugh M. Davidson -- Leonard Euler, supreme geometer (1707-1783) / C. Truesdell -- French opera and the spirit of the Revolution / Paul Henry Lang -- La philosophie dans le boudoir ; or, A young lady's entrance into the world / R.F. Brissenden -- The problem of artistic style as it relates to the beginnings of romanticism / Frederick J. Cummings -- The sick rose as an aesthetic idea : Kant, Blake, and the symbol in literature / John Neubauer -- Ludwig Tieck : English and French sources of his William Lovell (1795/96) / Franc̜ois Jost -- Clarissa and the tragic traditions / Sheldon Sacks -- |
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Symposium : Irrationalism in the eighteenth century -- The retreat from reason / Bertrand H. Bronson -- Irrationalism and politics in the eighteenth century / George Armstrong Kelly -- Forms of irrationality in the eighteenth century / George Rosen -- Un aspect de l'irrationnel au xviiiemè siècle : La démonologie et son exploitation littéraire / P. Vernière -- The irrational and the problem of historical knowledge in the Enlightenment / Hayden White. |
| Subject |
Irrationalism (Philosophy) -- History -- 18th century.
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Irrationalism (Philosophy) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 18th century.
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Civilization, Modern. |
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Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Pagliaro, Harold E.
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| ISBN |
0829502394 |
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9780829502398 |
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