{"product_id":"prelude-to-the-enlightenment","title":"Prelude to the Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1971, \u003ci\u003ePrelude to the Enlightenment \u003c\/i\u003eis a study of the attitudes of French writers during the transition from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment. Professors Atkinson and Keller investigate the increasing vogue for emotionalism, weeping, and confession and attitudes towards love and morality. On a more intellectual plane, the approaches of authors of the time to literary questions and their treatment of the world of reality. This book presents wide range of quotations from many writers of the period 1690 to 1740 – among them Mativaux; l’Abbé Prévost; Saint-Evremond; the novelists Robert Chasles, Mme Aubin, Mme de Tencin and la Comtesse d’Aulnoy; the remarkable and little-known writer Jean Buvat, who worked as a copyist in the Royal Library and wrote the \u003ci\u003eJournal de la Régence\u003c\/i\u003e; and l’Abbé Pluche, author of \u003ci\u003eLe Spectacle de la Nature. \u003c\/i\u003eSome of these are well known, some virtually unheard of, but all provide clues to the character of the age. By combining their own comments with contemporary quotations, Professors Atkinson and Keller give modern readers a feeling for the atmosphere of the period that followed the Golden Age and a deeper appreciation of the literature of the Enlightenment itself. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252363809112,"sku":"9781032425986","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032425986_32710bf1-00fe-4983-bb03-19c7404ed6ac.jpg?v=1768980637","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/prelude-to-the-enlightenment","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}