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Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

Volume 15, 1996

Table of contents (16 articles)

  1. Preface / Préface
  2. Victuallers and Social Mobility: Some Implications of Fielding's Providential Design
  3. Voltaire et le théâtre comique : étaient-ils incompatibles?
  4. Painting and Poetry: Titillation and Translation — Diderot confronts Lucretius's Invocation to Venus
  5. Eric Voegelin's Analysis of the Deformation of Consciousness in Voltaire
  6. The Meeting of Minds: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Louise D'Epinay: French and English Approaches to Girls' Education
  7. La Preuve par Jean-Jacques : un « fou littéraire » juge Rousseau
  8. Iconoclasm and Witchcraft in The Tragedy of Ovid
  9. Reason and the French Revolution: Burke's Empiricism vs. Cartesian-style Deduction.
  10. England Imported into Late Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle: Economic Consumption and Paradoxes of Cultural Exchange
  11. L’interaction narrée dans les romans et récits d’Isabelle de Charrière
  12. La Diffusion des « lumières » et le combat de la « raison » aux colonies au XVIIIe siècle : le cas de la Gazette de médecine de Duchemin
  13. Idéologies et sociétés au Québec au XVIIIe siècle
  14. L’ange et le cadavre puant : Doctrine et culte des anges en France au XVIIIe siècle
  15. The Argument over Prophecy: An Eighteenth-Century Debate between William Whiston and Anthony Collins
  16. Ma conversion, ou la puissance satirique du grotesque

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