French Literature Reviews - 2026
The Eighteenth Century: Boundaries and Perspectives
History, Politics and Society
The Eighteenth Century Now: Boundaries and Perspectives
SVEC, 2005, 277 p.
ISBN : 0 7294 0866 3
ISSN : 0435-2866
80 €
http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk
Jonathan Mallinson, The eighteenth century now: reading beyond the lines
Nicholas Cronk, Inventing Voltaire
Catherine Volpilhac-Auger and Catherine Larrère, Montesquieu in motion
Marian Hobson, Diderot and oblivion / Diderot in the future tense
Jacques Berchtold, What's new in Rousseau studies? Regarding the thematic approach
David Coward, Adventures of the novel
Simon Davies, Poetry reborn
Philip Robinson, Eighteenth-century theatre: the triumph of parody
Daniel Brewer, Remembering the Encyclopédie
Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski and Suzan van Dijk, Women's writing and literature
Shelly Charles, Translating in the eighteenth century
François Moureau, The French traveller and strange foreigners: a review of studies on the Age of Enlightenment
Anthony Strugnell, Colonialism and its discourses
Jean Sgard, The world of periodicals
Lise Andries, Reflections on the notion of popular literature
Antony McKenna, Clandestine philosophical manuscripts
Mark Ledbury, Imagining the Salon: mapping art criticism in the eighteenth century
Philip Stewart, Illustrating the novel in the eighteenth century
Michael O'Dea, 'Unintelligible visions' and 'apocalyptic truths': theory and practice of French opera
Yannick Séité, The book of the Enlightenment and its study
Jean-Paul Sermain, Rhetoric in cultural history, thought, and literary texts of the eighteenth century
Anne Vila, Getting cultural: new perspectives in eighteenth-century science studies
Catherine Larrère, From the politics of the Enlightenment to the politics of modernity
Giuseppi Ricuperati, Defining the Enlightenment: centres and peripheries from a European, cosmopolitan, and Italian perspective
Michel Delon, Questions of periodisation
This volume gathers contributions examining research on the Enlightenment across various disciplines. The essays address figures such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot and Rousseau alongside inquiries into the novel, poetry, theatre, translation, travel writing and periodical literature. Further discussions explore literature with visual culture, music, science, politics and clandestine philosophy, reflecting the intellectual landscape of the period. Readers interested in eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history may find these scholarly perspectives relevant to their research.