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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.: Edward Gibbon, 'Essai Sur l'étude de la Litterature' : A Critical Edition by Robert Mankin (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. Gibbon in the final text.

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PublisherLiverpool University Press

ISBN-10072940997X

ISBN-139780729409971

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Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEng,Fre

Publication NameEdward Gibbon, 'essai Sur L'étude De La Litterature' : a Critical Edition

Publication Year2010

SubjectModern / 18th Century, Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, General, Literary

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Education, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorRobert Mankin

SeriesOxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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ReviewsMankin's edition is a remarkable effort to try and elucidate the genesis and status of the Essai, in the light both of the contemporary history of ideas and publications, in France and in England, and of Gibbon's own intellectual development [...] This volume has the scrupulous precision of the whole SVEC collection, and the Voltaire Foundation must again be praised for its continuous and rare support of erudite research on the Enlightenment period. With the profusion of Mankin's references and sources, and the way he succeeds in making them resonate through Gibbon's text, this critical edition proves a very rewarding read for all of those interested in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century. - Cercles, L'ouvrage de Mankin propose une lecture très fouillée du texte de Gibbon avec de nombreuses incursions dans d'autres oeuvres de l'auteur comme l'Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain et les Mémoires. Il s'appuie sur des références multiples en soulignant notamment la modernité de la demarche historiographique de Gibbon dès les années 1760, bien avant la publication de l'Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire Romain. - Les Lettres romanes, Mankin's superb edition of the Essai, one of the greatest products of a truly international Republic of Letters, allows a great work of criticism, a civilised and civilizing text, to come back into fructifying circulation. - Essays in Criticism

Series Volume Number2010:07

Dewey Decimal807.1

Table Of ContentGuide to this edition Abbreviations Introduction Circumstances of writing Character of the text 'France': a context From Belles-Lettres to littérature The rise of the author Religions of the mind Textual apparatus Essai sur l'étude de la littérature To Edward Gibbon Avis au lecteur A l'auteur Essai sur l'étude de la littérature Textual commentary Bibliography Index

SynopsisBefore he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. In the Essai, a work of remarkable erudition and energy completed by the age of twenty-one, Gibbon reflects on the present state of knowledge in post-Renaissance Europe - what he calls litt rature. The first publication of the Essai since 1761, this critical edition sets Gibbon's work in its intellectual context. A detailed introduction examines the biographical, cultural and historical background to this text: the young writer's perception of European intellectual life as he observed it from Lausanne, his relation to the Encyclop die and the French acad mies , the fate of erudition, and the modern organization of learning in books. An extensive commentary completes this edition, providing invaluable annotation of each chapter, including the important but little-known sections on religion that were replaced by Gibbon in the final text. As current debates revisit the meaning of Enlightenment, readers will find in this edition of Gibbon's Essai a new approach to the intellectual networks and tensions that lie at its heart., Before he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. In the Essai, a work of remarkable erudition and energy completed by the age of twenty-one, Gibbon reflects on the present state of knowledge in post-Renaissance Europe - what he calls littérature. The first publication of the Essai since 1761, this critical edition sets Gibbon's work in its intellectual context. A detailed introduction examines the biographical, cultural and historical background to this text: the young writer's perception of European intellectual life as he observed it from Lausanne, his relation to the Encyclopédie and the French académies, the fate of erudition, and the modern organization of learning in books. An extensive commentary completes this edition, providing invaluable annotation of each chapter, including the important but little-known sections on religion that were replaced by Gibbon in the final text. As current debates revisit the meaning of Enlightenment, readers will find in this edition of Gibbon's Essai a new approach to the intellectual networks and tensions that lie at its heart.

LC Classification NumberPN59