Edward Gibbon, Essai sur l'étude de la littérature : a critical edition

Author(s)

• Gibbon, Edward
• Mankin, Robert
• Craddock, Patricia B.

Bibliographic Information

Edward Gibbon, Essai sur l'étude de la littérature : a critical edition

introduced and annotated by Robert Mankin ; text prepared by Patricia Craddock

（SVEC, 2010:07）

Voltaire Foundation, 2010

Other Title

Essai sur l'étude de la littérature

Note

"Ed. Mankin"--Spine

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-360) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Before he had even conceived of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire there was another Edward Gibbon, a young expatriate living in Switzerland and writing in French. In the Essai, a work of remarkable erudition and energy completed by the age of twenty-one, Gibbon reflects on the present state of knowledge in post-Renaissance Europe - what he calls litterature. The first publication of the Essai since 1761, this critical edition sets Gibbon's work in its intellectual context. A detailed introduction examines the biographical, cultural and historical background to this text: the young writer's perception of European intellectual life as he observed it from Lausanne, his relation to the Encyclopedie and the French academies, the fate of erudition, and the modern organization of learning in books. An extensive commentary completes this edition, providing invaluable annotation of each chapter, including the important but little-known sections on religion that were replaced by Gibbon in the final text. As current debates revisit the meaning of Enlightenment, readers will find in this edition of Gibbon's Essai a new approach to the intellectual networks and tensions that lie at its heart.

Table of Contents

Guide to this edition Abbreviations Introduction Circumstances of writing Character of the text 'France': a context From Belles-Lettres to litterature The rise of the author Religions of the mind Textual apparatus Essai sur l'etude de la litterature To Edward Gibbon Avis au lecteur A l'auteur Essai sur l'etude de la litterature Textual commentary Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB02699878
• ISBN:
  • 9780729409971
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: freeng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 369 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 807.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. Essai sur l'etude de la littérature
  • LCSH : Literature -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA46635977