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Book Title
Transforming the Republic of Letters : Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720
Publication Name
Transforming the Republic of Letters
Title
Transforming the Republic of Letters
Subtitle
Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720
Author
April Shelford
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
158046243X
EAN
9781580462433
ISBN
9781580462433
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections
Release Year
2007
Release Date
03/08/2007
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.6in
Item Length
9in
Series
Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
Publication Year
2007
Topic
European / French, Letters, Europe / General, Modern / 17th Century
Item Width
6in
Number of Pages
275 Pages

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A multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721).

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Publisher
University of Rochester Press
ISBN-10
158046243x
ISBN-13
9781580462433
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21038634974

Product Key Features

Book Title
Transforming the Republic of Letters : Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720
Author
April Shelford
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
European / French, Letters, Europe / General, Modern / 17th Century
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
275 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
7
Lc Classification Number
B1889.H74s54 2007
Volume Number
Vol. 7
Reviews
At a time when Enlightenment historians are re-discovering the critical importance of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, April Shelford offers us a sophisticated and beautifully written study of the birth of the siècle des lumières as witnessed by a man present throughout its long and difficult gestation. That Huet's relationship to the child was ambivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own., A very welcome and accomplished contribution to our growing understanding of early modern European intellectual history. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Shelford's rich and fascinating study . . . succeeds not only in offering an integrated and more complete study of Huet, but also in providing a more subtle and nuanced account of the means by which the old Republic of Letters operated. . . . [A] meticulously researched study . . . of an important period in the history of ideas. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, June 2008 [Rachel Hammersley] Huet is a formidable subject to treat in a single book, but Shelford has done an admirable job with full documentation in the notes, mainly from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Laurenziana, since few of Huet's works are available in modern editions. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, May 2008 [Charles Fantazzai] Shelford's book is a well-researched, thoughtful, and critical study of Huet and the transformation of the older Republic of Letters into the more widely studied one of the eighteenth century. [It] provides us with a more subtle understanding of the cultural changes in the period that does not read contemporary ideals backward, proleptically, into the past. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS Transforming the Republic of Letters is a formidable book about a formidable man: Pierre-Daniel Huet. A deft and vivid narrator, April Shelford recreates Huet's career, his friendships with learned men and women, his projects and his quarrels with erudition, tenacity and deep historical insight. . . . This finely observed biography is also an original and striking work of cultural history. --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University At a time when Enlightenment historians are re-discovering the critical importance of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, April Shelford offers us a sophisticated and beautifully written study of the birth of the siècle des lumières as witnessed by a man present throughout its long and difficult gestation. That Huet's relationship to the child was ambivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. --Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State University mbivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. --Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State University mbivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. --Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State University mbivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. --Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State University, A very welcome and accomplished contribution to our growing understanding of early modern European intellectual history. JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY Shelford's rich and fascinating study . . . succeeds not only in offering an integrated and more complete study of Huet, but also in providing a more subtle and nuanced account of the means by which the old Republic of Letters operated. . . . [A] meticulously researched study . . . of an important period in the history of ideas. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, June 2008 [Rachel Hammersley] Huet is a formidable subject to treat in a single book, but Shelford has done an admirable job with full documentation in the notes, mainly from the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Laurenziana, since few of Huet's works are available in modern editions. RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY, May 2008 [Charles Fantazzai] Shelford's book is a well-researched, thoughtful, and critical study of Huet and the transformation of the older Republic of Letters into the more widely studied one of the eighteenth century. [It] provides us with a more subtle understanding of the cultural changes in the period that does not read contemporary ideals backward, proleptically, into the past. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEWS Transforming the Republic of Letters is a formidable book about a formidable man: Pierre-Daniel Huet. A deft and vivid narrator, April Shelford recreates Huet's career, his friendships with learned men and women, his projects and his quarrels with erudition, tenacity and deep historical insight. . . . This finely observed biography is also an original and striking work of cultural history. --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University At a time when Enlightenment historians are re-discovering the critical importance of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, April Shelford offers us a sophisticated and beautifully written study of the birth of the siècle des lumières as witnessed by a man present throughout its long and difficult gestation. That Huet's relationship to the child was ambivalent -- even hostile -- only renders his story the more compelling. Reading it, we are reminded of how closely death attends to life, and of what is lost as the world is made anew. Huet's tragedy of displacement becomes, in Shelford's skillful handling, in some measure our own. --Darrin M. McMahon, Department of History, Florida State University, Transforming the Republic of Letters is a formidable book about a formidable man: Pierre-Daniel Huet. A deft and vivid narrator, April Shelford recreates Huet's career, his friendships with learned men and women, his projects and his quarrels with erudition, tenacity and deep historical insight. . . . This finely observed biography is also an original and striking work of cultural history.
Table of Content
The Road to Parnassus, 1648-61The Lives of Poems, 1653-63The Empire of Women, 1651-89The Gate of Ivory, 1646-90Defending Parnassus, 1666-92
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-005050
Dewey Decimal
001.109409032
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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