Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations

With a preface by Jacques Le Brun
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3817-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 178, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 736 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schmitt-Maaß, Christoph

Stockhorst, Stefanie

Ahn, Doohwan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Jacques Le Brun: Préface: Une réception paradoxale
Christoph Schmitt-Maaß/Stefanie Stockhorst/Doohwan Ahn: Introduction: Early Modernism,
Catholicism and the Role of the Subject – Fénelon as a Representative of the Age of Enlightenment
Karen Pagani: And if Voltaire Ceased to be Voltaire? The Influence of Quietism on Voltaire’s Later Work
Matthew D. Mendham: Rousseau’s Partial Reception of Fénelon: From the Corruptions of Luxury to the Contradictions of Society
Andrew Mansfield: Fénelon’s Cuckoo: Andrew Michael Ramsay and the Archbishop Fénelon
Doohwan Ahn: From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain
Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas/Sara Muniain Ederra: Prendre modèle sur Télémaque: The Fénelonian Underpinnings of ‘Cultural Policy’ at the Court of Philip V of Spain
Christoph Schmitt-Maaß: Quietistic Pietists? The Reception of Fénelon in Central Germany c. 1700
Patricia A. Ward: Fénelon and Classical America
Márcia Abreu: The Adventures of Telemachus in the Luso-Brazilian World
Arzu Meral: The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon’s Télémaque
Dragana Grbic: Telemachus – Dositej Obradovic’s Last Wish. The Serbian Reception of Fénelon
Anna Szyrwinska: Polish Translations of Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus in the 18th and early 19th Century
Mary D. Sheriff: Painting Telemachus in the French Regency
Bernward Schmidt: The Rejected Maxim: Images of Fénelon in Rome 1699 and by Catholic Reformers c. 1800
Silvia Schmitt-Maaß: Collecting Fénelon: Images, Imaginations, and Collecting Portraits
Bruno Forment: Fénelon’s Operatic Novel: Audiovisual Topoi in Télémaque and their Representation in Opera
Biographical Notes
Index