The search for enlightenment : an introduction to eighteenth-century French writing
"John Leigh takes a fresh and original look at eighteenth-century French writing, celebrating the ideas and hopes that animated its central figures, and examining the extent to which they and their readers bore new responsibilities, and confronted new doubts."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
176 pages [1 plate] : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780742500471, 0742500470
43470335
Acknowledgements
Author's note
Introduction
I. The legacy of the seventeenth century
II. In search of happiness
III. Philosophical writings
IV. Doubts about philosophy
V. Thought on religion
VI. Travel accounts: self and other
VII. Women
VIII. Theatre
IX. Writing in the revolution
X. Conclusions
Glossary
Index