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Title Fénelon in the Enlightenment : traditions, adaptations, and variations / with a preface by Jacques Le Brun ; edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maaß, Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, [2014]
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 178
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Préface : Une réception paradoxale; Introduction: Early Modernism, Catholicism and the Role of theSubject -- Fénelon as a Representative of the Age of Enlightenment; And if Voltaire Ceased to be Voltaire? The Influence of Quietism on Voltaire's Later Works; Rousseau's Partial Reception of Fénelon: From the Corruptions of Luxury to the Contradictions of Society; Fénelon's Cuckoo: Andrew Michael Ramsay and the Archbishop Fénelon; From Idomeneus to Protesilaus:Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain
Prendre modèle sur Télémaque: The Fénelonian Underpinnings of'Cultural Policy' at the Court of Philip V of SpainQuietistic Pietists? The Reception of Fénelonin Central Germany c. 1700; Fénelon and Classical America; The Adventures of Telemachus in the Luso-Brazilian World; The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon's Télémaque; Telemachus -- Dositej Obradović's Last Wish. The Serbian Reception of Fénelon; Polish Translations of Fénelon'sThe Adventures of Telemachus in the 18th and early 19th Century; Painting Telemachus in the French Regency
The Rejected Maxim: Images of Fénelon in Rome 1699and by Catholic Reformers c. 1800Collecting Fénelon: Images, Imaginations, and Collecting Portraits; Fénelon's Operatic Novel: Audiovisual Topoi in Télémaqueand their Representation in Opera; Biographical Notes; Index
Summary François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651-1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d'Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fénelon's ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time has as yet
Notes International conference proceedings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English; preface in French
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 30, 2015)
Subject Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715 -- Congresses
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715. Aventures de Télémaque -- Congresses
SUBJECT Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715 fast
Aventures de Télémaque (Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-) fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Le Brun, Jacques, writer of preface.
Schmitt-Maass, Christoph, author, editor.
Stockhorst, Stefanie, 1974- author, editor.
Ahn, Doohwan, author, editor.
ISBN 9789401210645
9401210640