Turmoil : instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century francophone text / edited by Síofra Pierse and Emma M. Dunne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pierse, Síofra, editor.

Dunne, Emma M., editor.

Series:

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2634-8047 2022:05.

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2634-8047 ; 2022:05

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Crises in literature.

Change in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press ; Oxford : On behalf of [the] Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2022]

Language Note:

Texts in English or French.

Summary:

What is turmoil? How may it be captured? What were its manifestations in the eighteenth century? Why does it feel so familiar, even urgent, nowadays? This book proposes a completely new ontology of turmoil through study of its incidence and impact in the eighteenth-century francophone context.

Contents:

Preface: après le déluge / Catriona Seth FBA

Introduction: turmoil, instability, adaptation, elasticity in the eighteenth-century francophone text / Síofra Pierse

I. Intimations of insecurity

Troubles, désordres, crises: une approche numérique des expressions de la tourmente au dix-huitième siècle / Ioana Galleron et Chiara Mainardi

The knife and the pen: the attentat of 1757 / Kate E. Tunstall

Political turmoil in Voltaire's vision and revision of the Fronde / James Hanrahan

II. Filtering natural disasters

The Antilles, the natural history of hurricanes and earthquakes, the Seven Years War and global commerce through the lens of the abbé Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes / Jenny Mander

(Ré)inventer le Vésuve, modéliser la catastrophe, vivre la tourmente: Dupaty en Italie méridionale à la veille de la Révolution / Laurence Macé

Voltaire and the Lisbon disaster: from aftershocks to ataraxy / Síofra Pierse

III. Instability and memory

Poétique de l'émotion populaire dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française de Nicolas Chamfort / Cyril Francès

Turmoil and corruption in Joséphine de Monbart's Lettres tahitiennes / Adam Schoene

Disorder and the dead in revolutionary Paris / Erin-Marie Legacey

IV. Sade and female marginalisation

Fictional turmoil: the bloodlust of women in Sadean libertine narratives / Edward T. O'Sullivan

L'insécurité du sexe féminin: de l'infanticide au féminicide chez Sade / Shasha Ma

V. Resilience post turmoil

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: le solitaire engagé / Simon Davies

La résistance spirituelle dans la France des philosophes / Gabriel-Robert Thibault

'A moi! A un proscrit! A un malheureux fugitif!': Isabelle de Charrière's émigré-e-s amid the turmoil of exile / Emma M. Dunne

Revolutionary upheaval and domestic turmoil in Beaumarchais's unsung play La Mère coupable / John Leigh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1800856245

9781800856240

OCLC:

1268112977