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The Enlightenment World

Name: The Enlightenment World
Author: Ma Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780415404082

by Ma Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones (Editor), Christa Knellwolf

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Overview

The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa 1660-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. The chapters are written by leading international experts and presented in non-technical and accessible language. This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and progresses through a wide range of topics in an exploration of this era of sweeping changes and transformation. Chapters cover areas as diverse as government, fashion, craftsmen and artisans, philanthropy, cross-cultural encounters, feminism, censorship, science and education, and contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment. This volume provides essential reading for all students of the Enlightenment.

Synopsis

This collection of essays written by leading international experts offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation.

About the Author, Ma Fitzpatrick

Martin Fitzpatrick was formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, the University of Wales, Aberyswyth. He is co-editor of Enlightenment and Dissent.

Peter Jones is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Christa Knellwolf is affiliated to the Austrailian National University and co-editor (with Christopher Norris) of 'The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.9.’

Iain McCalman is the Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University and general editor of An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832'