British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84718-253-1
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten

France and Great Britain, so close geographically but separated by language, culture and history, had been exchanging merchandise, visitors, rulers and ideas for hundreds of years before the eighteenth century. The flow of traffic only quickened during this period, and became a flood, in the direction of Great Britain, during the decade following the Revolution. While certain of these exchanges, such as Voltaire’s sojourn abroad, have been studied in detail, others are coming into focus only as scholars study secondary figures in the host country and the interactions of various groups with its citizens. British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century gathers together fourteen recent essays by scholars from Great Britain and the United States who have examined various parameters of the subject. Correspondences and translations are obvious forms of cultural sharing and are in play in many of the essays. Others recount and analyse the stories of persons who actually visited the other country in circumstances ranging from pure tourism to emigration to a hostage exchange. A final group of essays treats intellectual influences in realms as diverse as encyclopaedism, cultural analysis, connoisseurship, and cosmopolitanism in the arts. The volume is
appropriate for collections in history, literature, and culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I:

Translations and Correspondence
1 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s English Correspondents During the French Revolution
MALCOLM COOK
2 The English Translations of Voltaire’s La Pucelle
J. PATRICK LEE†
3 Enlightened Exchange: The Correspondence of André Morellet and Lord Shelburne
DOROTHY MEDLIN and ARLENE P. SHY
4 The Scottish Enlightenment in Action: The Correspondence of William Robertson and
J.-B.-A. Suard
JEFFREY SMITTEN
Part II:

Sojourns Abroad
5 ‘The Only Disagreeable Thing in the Whole’: the Selection and Experience of the British Hostages
for the Delivery of Cape Breton in Paris, 1748-49
ROBIN EAGLES
6 Peregrinations to the Convent: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Ann Radcliffe
TONYA MOUTRAY MCARTHUR
7 Friend or Foe? French Émigrés Discover Britain
ROSENA DAVISON
8 ‘Genuine Anecdotes’: Mary Charlton and Revolutionary Celebrity
GILLIAN DOW
Part III:

Intellectual and Artistic Exchanges
9 Two Partial English-Language Translations of the Encyclopédie: The Encyclopedias of John
Barrow and Temple Henry Croker
JEFF LOVELAND
10 British Biography in the Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire
KATHLEEN HARDESTY DOIG
11 Diderot, Dentistry and British Politics: Two Neglected Pamphlets
DAVID ADAMS
12 British and French Influences on Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer
DEIDRE DAWSON
13 A Commonwealth of Connoisseurs: British Humanism in the Art and Science of the Ancien Régime
ELIZABETH LIEBMAN
14 An Anglo-Swiss Connection in the Age of Voltaire: Jean Huber’s British Friends and Relations
GARRY APGAR

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardesty Doig, Kathleen

Medlin, Dorothy

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Hardesty Doig is Professor of French at Georgia State University. Her research interests are Enlightenment encyclopedism, particularly the Yverdon Encyclopédie and the Encyclopédie méthodique, and the work of André Morellet.

Dorothy Medlin, Professor Emerita of French at Winthrop University, co-edited Lettres d’André Morellet, in three volumes (Voltaire Foundation, 1991-1996), and has published extensively on Morellet.

Professors Doig and Medlin are collaborating on a critical edition of Morellet’s Mémoires (Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, forthcoming).