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.

Adelaide and Theodore

Adelaide and Theodore
Author: Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint Aubin comtesse de Genlis (afterwards marquise de Sillery)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1788
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Adelaide and Theodore

Adelaide and Theodore
Author: Gillian Dow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315475847

Some of the theories Genlis adopts in the education of the eponymous children have their roots in Rousseau's "Emile". However, Genlis herself suggested that Rousseau knew little of the practical education of children. This work is placed within the context of the late eighteenth-century debate on female education.