Fénelon in the enlightenment : traditions, adaptations, and variations / with a preface by Jacques Le Brun ; edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maass, Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Brun, Jacques, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Schmitt-Maass, Christoph, editor.

Stockhorst, Stefanie, editor.

Ahn, Doohwan, editor.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178.

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--France.

Culture.

France--Social policy.

France.

France--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fénelon’s ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time has as yet found no coherent and comprehensive answer. By taking Fénelon’s intellectual influence as a matter of ‘cultural translation’, this anthology traces the reception of Fénelon and his multifaceted writings outside of France, and in doing so aims to enrich not only our understanding of the Enlightenment, but also of the thinker himself.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Une réception paradoxale / Jacques Le Brun

Early Modernism, Catholicism and the Role of the Subject – Fénelon as a Representative of the Age of Enlightenment / Christoph Schmitt-Maaß , Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn

And if Voltaire Ceased to be Voltaire? The Influence of Fénelon’s Quietism on Voltaire’s Later Works / Karen Pagani

Rousseau’s Partial Reception of Fénelon: From the Corruptions of Luxury to the Contradictions of Society / Matthew D. Mendham

Fénelon’s Cuckoo: Andrew Michael Ramsay and the Archbishop Fénelon / Andrew Mansfield

From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain / Doohwan Ahn

Prendre modèle sur Télémaque: The Fénelonian Underpinnings of ‘Cultural Policy’ at the Court of Philip V of Spain / Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas and Sara Muniain Ederra

Quietistic Pietists? The Reception of Fénelon in Central Germany c. 1700 / Christoph Schmitt-Maaß

Fénelon and Classical America / Patricia A. Ward

The Adventures of Telemachus in the Luso-Brazilian World / Márcia Abreu

The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon’s Télémaque / Arzu Meral

Telemachus – Dositej Obradović’s Last Wish. The Serbian Reception of Fénelon / Dragana Grbić

Polish Translations of Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus in the 18th and early 19th Century / Anna Szyrwińska

Painting Telemachus in the French Regency / Mary D. Sheriff

The Rejected Maxim: Images of Fénelon in Rome 1699 and by Catholic Reformers c. 1800 / Bernward Schmidt

Collecting Fénelon: Images, Imaginations, and Collecting Portraits / Silvia Schmitt-Maaß

Fénelon’s Operatic Novel: Audiovisual Topoi in Télémaque and their Representation in Opera / Bruno Forment

Biographical Notes

Index

Appeared earlier in the series: INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGEN ZUR ALLGEMEINEN UND VERGLEICHENDEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1064-0

OCLC:

905696975

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210645 DOI