Enlightenment’s Errand Boy
David A. Bell: The Philosophes and the Republic of Letters, 22 May 2003
Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in 18th-Century France
by L.W.B. Brockliss.
Oxford, 471 pp., £55, July 2002,9780199247486 Show More
by L.W.B. Brockliss.
Oxford, 471 pp., £55, July 2002,
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
by Colin Jones.
Allen Lane, 651 pp., £25, August 2002,0 7139 9039 2 Show More
by Colin Jones.
Allen Lane, 651 pp., £25, August 2002,
“... and enjoys an alarming degree of popularity on American and British university campuses. L.W.B. Brockliss is no Postmodernist, vulgar or otherwise, and his elegantly instructive study falls into older traditions of critique. Like the great early 20th-century historian Paul Hazard, Brockliss wants to push the boundaries of ... ”