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Book SynopsisIt is a measure of the breadth of her interests that the contributions to this volume come from experts in a wide range of disciplines: comparative literature, art history, the history of mathematics and science, philosophy, the history of publishing and translation studies.
Trade Review'All the papers offer new insights on their subject [...] The value of this collection is that it provides the first overview of Du Châtelet’s œuvre as a whole, which will be a point of reference for future scholarship.'
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Introduction: a scholarly conversation, 1967-2006
Judith P. Zinsser
and Julie Candler Hayes, Rereading W. H. Barber
W. H. Barber, Mme Du Châtelet and Leibnizianism: the genesis of the
Institutions de physiqueJudith P. Zinsser
and Julie Candler Hayes, The marquise as
philosopheI. Contemporary portraits
John R. Iverson, A female member of the Republic of Letters: Du Châtelet’s portrait in
Bilder-Sal [...]
berümhter SchrifftstellerMarie-Thérèse Inguenaud, La Grosse et le Monstre: histoire d’une haine
Rémy G. Saisselin, Portraiture and the ambiguity of being
II. Contributions to the Republic of Letters
J. Patrick Lee, Le
Recueil de poésies: manuscrit de Mme Du Châtelet
Adrienne Mason, 'L’air du climat et le goût du terroir’: translation as cultural capital in the writings of Mme Du Châtelet
Bertram Eugene Schwarzbach, Mme Du Châtelet’s
Examens de la Bible and Voltaire’s
La Bible enfin expliquéeFrançois Gauvin, Le cabinet de physique du château de Cirey et la philosophie naturelle de Mme Du Châtelet et de Voltaire
Paul Veatch Moriarty, The principle of sufficient reason in Du Châtelet’s
InstitutionsAntoinette Emch-Dériaz
and Gérard G. Emch, On Newton’s French translator: how faithful was Mme Du Châtelet?
III. Self-portraiture
Barbara Whitehead, The singularity of Mme Du Châtelet: an analysis of the
Discours sur le bonheurRenaud Redien-Collot, Emilie Du Châtelet et les femmes: entre l’attitude prométhéenne et la pleine assomption du statut de minoritaire
Nanette LeCoat, 'Le génie de la sécheresse’: Mme Du Châtelet in the eyes of her Second Empire critics
Summaries
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