Survey of French Literature, Volume 3 The Eighteenth Century

by Rivers, Kenneth T.; Bishop, Morris Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9781585101801
• ISBN10: 158510180X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.

Summary

This is the third edition of a classic anthology, updated for the modern student. Selections in French, with introductory material and notes in English. The book includes time lines, introductions to each period and its culture, and short biographies of the authors. Each century is contained in its own volume. This volume is the Eighteenth Century.

Author Biography

Kenneth T. Rivers is a Professor of French at Lamar University, Beaumont, in the Texas State University System. Born in Oakland, California in 1950, he went on to receive his BA, MA, and PhD in French, with a minor in History, from the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored one previous book, Transmutations: Understanding Literary and Pictorial Caricature, and many scholarly articles on a variety of subjects including the works of Balzac, Flaubert, and other authors; the art of Daumier; French cinema; French politics; and, perhaps most notably, the effects of climate changes throughout history upon European culture. Morris Gilbert Bishop (1893-1973) was one of the great literary scholars of his time and an acclaimed biographer. He championed the academic life, not only in books -- A Survey of French Literature (first and second editions) and A History of Cornell, but also by serving as President of the Modern Language Association.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(2)
The Eighteenth Century	3	(232)
Fontenelle	7	(11)
Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes: Premier Soir	8	(10)
Lesage	18	(15)
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (Abridged Excerpt)	20	(13)
Marivaux	33	(17)
L'Ile des esclaves	35	(15)
L'Abbe Prevost	50	(17)
Histoire de Manon Lescaut (Selection)	52	(15)
Montesquieu	67	(13)
Lettres persanes (Selections)	69	(5)
L'Esprit des lois (Selections)	74	(6)
Voltaire	80	(58)
Candide ou l'optimisme	82	(56)
Diderot	138	(25)
Le Neveu de Rameau (Abridged)	139	(24)
Libertinage and Chastity	163	(8)
Choderlos de Laclos	164	(4)
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Abridged Excerpt)	165	(3)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre	168	(3)
Paul et Virginie (Abridged Excerpt)	169	(2)
Rousseau	171	(37)
Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite: Seconde Partie (Abridged)	175	(10)
Emile, ou de l'education (Excerpts)	185	(11)
Confessions (Excerpts)	196	(12)
Twelve Opinions to Close the Century	208	(27)
Buffon	208	(5)
Discours sur le style (Excerpts)	210	(3)
Chamfort	213	(2)
Maximes et pensees (Selections)	213	(2)
Beaumarchais	215	(2)
Le Mariage de Figaro (Excerpt): Le Monologue de Figaro	215	(2)
Condorcet	217	(6)
Des progres futurs de l'esprit humain (Selections)	218	(5)
Rivarol	223	(1)
Discours sur l'universalite de la langue francaise (Abridged Excerpts)	223	(1)
Vauvenargues	224	(1)
Reflexions et Maximes (Selections)	224	(1)
Sade	225	(1)
Justine (Abridged Excerpt)	225	(1)
Anonymous	226	(2)
Le Mariage anglais	227	(1)
Maistre	228	(2)
Considerations sur la France (Abridged Excerpt)	229	(1)
Assemblee nationale	230	(1)
Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen (Abridged Selections)	230	(1)
Chenier	231	(2)
La Jeune Captive	232	(1)
Bonaparte	233	(2)
Citations (Selections)	234	(1)
Bibliography	235	(1)
A biographical note about the editors	236