...Elizabeth A. Spiller Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Cervantes avant la Lettre: The Material Transformation of Romance Reading Culture in Don Quijote Elizabeth A. Spiller f Don Qugote as a whole narrates the literary-historical transforma- Ition...

...Clifford H. Prator; Francis W. Gravit Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 THE EDITIONS OF FRkRON’S LETTRES SUR QUELQUES ECRITS DE CE TEMPS By CLIFFORDH. PRATORand FRANCISW. GRAVIT The opinions of Elie-Catherine FrGron, which...

...Alessandro S. Crisafulli Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 A NEGLECTED ENGLISH IMITATION OF MONTESQUIEU’S LETTRES PERSANES By ALESSANDROS. CRISAFULLI The fiction entitled Letters from...

...David E. Highnam Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 LETTRES PORTUGAISES PASSION IN SEARCH OF SURVIVAL By DAVIDE. HICHNAM Deloffie and Rougeot’s masterful edition of the Lettres portugaisesl has done as much...

...Clifford H. Prator Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 E.-C. FRkRON IN THE LIGHT OF VARIANTS IN THE TEXT OF HIS LETTRES SUR QUELQUES ECRITSDE CE TEMPS By CLIFFORDH. PRATOR In an article recently appearing...

... and cultural history, and the vagaries of canon formation than Franqoise de Grsgny’s Lettres d ’une phwienne. First published in 1747, this novel consists of letters written by Zilia, an Inca virgin of the Temple of the Sun, to ha, the Inca prince she was to marry on the very day the Spanish...

...: the transformation of writing, that is, from rhetoric or belles lettres to art. However, while much has been written and said about the French, German, and Scottish Enlightenments, little is known about the Italian one. Engaged in a reevaluation of this lesser-known, peripheral Enlightenment, this essay discusses...

... bits. And objections to the grouping of items here and there in no way detract from the “Kenntnis, Oberschau und Einsicht” the bountiful volumes offer. J. ALANPFEFPER University of Buffalo Denis Diderot : Lettre sur les...

... arly modern histories of learning and belles-lettres took authors, Eworks, and (sometimes) editions as their objects. By contrast, bib- liomaniacs craved objects that were far more particular: individual copies of books (or else specific manuscripts). My aim...

... Europe. La Haye, J. F. du Four, in-4’. * 1692-1728 Lettres historiques contenant ce qui s’est passe de plus important en Europe et les rkflexions convenables i ce sujet. La Haye et Amsterdam, 111 v. in-12. (Men- suel. Jacques Bernard, Basnage de...

... to writings of Diderot which were later than the Lettre. Taken in itself this lapsus is not serious; but it falsifies the perspective of the historical back- ground which the author set out to give. Some references are not quite accurate : for instance, the author of the Historia critica...

..., contemporary French and German literary journals, official records in the Archives Nationales, the Histoire NaturelZe, and two unfamiliar and neglected sources, Panckoucke’s Encyclo- pkdie Mkthod.ique and Lettre de Monsieicr Panckoucke ir Messieurs Ze Prksident et Blecteurs de 1791. (On September...

...J.-J. Demorest Mesnard Par Jean. Paris: Boivin et Cie., Collection Connaissance des Lettres, 1951. Pp. 192. Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 James Dootittlc 123 “cette qualit4 d’evolution psychofogique si peu frkqumte dans...

.... In explaining his reason for joining the D’Eon conspiracy in July, 1763, De Vergy remarked, “A vingt-cinq ans, l’estomac est une des parties intigrantes de la conscience.” Oeuvres cumpl2tes de Vultaire, Nouvelle Cdition (Paris, 1818). Lettre M. le comte d’Argenta1, 8 juillet 1772, vol. 37, p. 599...

.... . . . Puis, toutcoup,un silence complet.” 6 See Georges GuCroult, Eugtne Suuury (MAcon, n.d 9. 7 Lettres h Z’Etrungtre, ed. Calmann-Levy (Paris, 18&-1950), Nov. 7-14, 1837, I, 443; hereafter cited in the text as Lettres. 8 The letter continues: “Je vis si solitairement que je n’ai point...

.... Groningen: J. B. Wolters, Studia Litteraria Rheno- Traiectina, ed. H. Sparnaay et W. A. P. Smit, Volumen Quintum, 1959. Pp. 86. f 4,75. Murat, Jean. Klopstock: Les Th6mes principaux de son oeuvre. Paris: Publi- cations de la FacultC des Lettres de 1’UniversitC de Strasbourg, Fasc. 138...

... valued these very highly.27 How early Hume was acquainted with the Lettres Persanes is not easily determined. But granted his enthusiasm for things French and “philosophical” it would seem hardly credible that he did not read them at least as early as 1734-37, during his first stay...

... not received a reply, he sold his materials and rights to Beaumarchais, who was glad to have an operation which he could use as an explanation for the fortune he had gained from the sale of arms to the American insurgents. The day after the signing ‘‘Lettres inedites de Voltaire A Panckoucke...

...Henry Hatfield Pierre-Paul Sagave. Paris: Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg, Société d'Edition, Les Belles Lettres, fascicule 124, 1954. Pp. 168. © 1954 University of Washington 1954 380 Reviews function...