Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800
Author: G. Gargett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230510159

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.