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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre : Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer by Simon Davies (2021, Trade Paperback)
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He bemoaned analytical, reductionist approaches: his philosophy placed human beings at the centre of the universe and stressed the interconnectedness of cosmic harmony. He attacked slavery, championed a national education system and advocated justice for authors.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-101789622484
ISBN-139781789622485
eBay Product ID (ePID)22050393729
Product Key Features
Number of Pages372 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBernardin De Saint-Pierre : Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer
Publication Year2021
SubjectModern / 18th Century
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Davies
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
SeriesOxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-445181
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"[O]riginal and germane... explore[s] the splendeurs et misères of the authorial condition in the late eighteenth century." Robin Howells, Modern Language Review, '[O]riginal and germane... explore[s] the splendeurs et misères of the authorial condition in the late eighteenth century.' Robin Howells, Modern Language Review
Series Volume Number2021:01
Dewey Decimal848.509
SynopsisA major figure in late eighteenth-century France, the first scholarly editions of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's correspondence and Complete Works have revealed his under-researched importance and impact. In multi-generic works he treated science, the environment, colonialism, slavery, education and social reform. He was an influential celebrity for the powerful and the powerless., Although posterity has generally known Bernardin de Saint-Pierre for his bestselling Paul et Virginie , his output was encyclopaedic. Using new sources, this monograph explores the many facets of a celebrity writer in the Ancien Régime, the Revolution and the early nineteenth century. Bernardin attracted a readership to whom, irrespective of age, gender or social situation, he became a guide to living. He was nominated by Louis XVI to manage the Jardin des plantes , by Revolutionary bodies to teach at the École normale and to membership of the Institut. He deplored unquestioning adherence to Newtonian ideas, materialistic atheism and human misdeeds in what could be considered proto-ecological terms. He bemoaned analytical, reductionist approaches: his philosophy placed human beings at the centre of the universe and stressed the interconnectedness of cosmic harmony. Bernardin learned enormously from travel to Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean. He attacked slavery, championed a national education system and advocated justice for authors. Fresh information and interpretation show that he belonged to neither the philosophe or anti-philosophe camp. A reformist, he envisioned a regenerated France as a nation of liberty offering asylum for refugees. This study demonstrates the range of thought and expression of an incontournable polymath in an age of transformation.
LC Classification NumberPQ2065
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