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Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

Palgrave Macmillan

Editors:

  1. Graham Gargett

    1. University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

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  2. Geraldine Sheridan

    1. Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  3. Ireland Seen from France

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Attitudes towards Ireland and the Irish in Enlightenment France

      • Éamon Ó Ciosáin
      Pages 129-151

    3. Voltaire’s View of the Irish

      • Graham Gargett
      Pages 152-170

  4. Tools of Transmission

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. The Trade in French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

      • Máire Kennedy, Geraldine Sheridan
      Pages 173-196

    3. Ireland and the French Theatre

      • Simon Davies
      Pages 197-212

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 233-293
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About this book

By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

    Graham Gargett

  • Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland

    Geraldine Sheridan

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About the editors

GRAHAM GARGETT is Senior Lecturer in French, University of Ulster. His publications include: Voltaire and Protestantism, Jacob Vernet, Geneva and the 'philosophes'.

GERALDINE SHERIDAN is Associate Professor of French, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick. She has published a monograph on Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the Literay Underworld of the Ancien Régime; an edition (with Jean Sgard) Voyage du Prince Fan-Férédin dans la Romancie; and numerous journal articles in related areas.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

  • Editors: Graham Gargett, Geraldine Sheridan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510159

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64638-0Published: 08 February 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51015-9Published: 08 February 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 293

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural Studies, History of Philosophy

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