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Book SynopsisTrade Review'The strength of this book lies in the excellent quality of the individual studies and in the diversity of the experiences of the Enlightenment which it offers, stripping away the barriers created by linguistic, political and cultural divisions.'
Eighteenth-century Ireland
'[…] this is a rich and thought-provoking collection. Butterwick’s hope that he can ‘persuade dix-huitiémistes that study of the peripheries of the Enlightenment yields insights into the movement as a whole’ (p.16) is well founded.'
Slavonic and East European Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Richard Butterwick, Peripheries of the Enlightenment: an introduction
Simon Davies, Whither/wither France: Voltaire’s view from Ferney
Graham Gargett, French periphery, European centre: eighteenth-century Geneva and its contribution to the Enlightenment
Michael Brown, Was there an Irish Enlightenment? The case of the Anglicans
John Robertson, Political economy and the ‘feudal system’ in Enlightenment Naples: outline of a problem
Marie-Christine Skuncke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Swedish eyes around 1760
Orsolya Szakály, Enlightened self-interest: the development of an entrepreneurial culture within the Hungarian elite
Martin Fitzpatrick, The view from Mount Pleasant: Enlightenment in late eighteenth-century Liverpool
Simon Burrows, Grub Street revolutionaries: marginal writers at the Enlightenment’s periphery?
Ultán Gillen, Varieties of Enlightenment: the Enlightenment and Irish political culture in the age of revolutions
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, An
ilustrado in his province: Jovellanos in Asturias
Richard Butterwick, Between Anti-Enlightenment and enlightened Catholicism: provincial preachers in late eighteenth-century Poland-Lithuania
Simon Dixon, 'Prosveshchenie’: Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Russia
Fiona Clark, The
Gazeta de Literatura de México and the edge of reason: when is a periphery not a periphery?
Lynda Pratt, Tea and national history? Ann Yearsley, John Thelwall and the late eighteenth-century provincial English epic
Peter Hanns Reill, The Enlightenment from the German periphery: Johann Herder’s reinterpretation of the Enlightenment
Summaries
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