Fénelon in the enlightenment : : traditions, adaptations, and variations / / with a preface by Jacques Le Brun ; edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maass, Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178
• TeilnehmendeR: Le Brun, Jacques,; Schmitt-Maass, Christoph,; Stockhorst, Stefanie,; Ahn, Doohwan,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Une réception paradoxale /; Early Modernism, Catholicism and the Role of the Subject – Fénelon as a Representative of the Age of Enlightenment /; And if Voltaire Ceased to be Voltaire? The Influence of Fénelon’s Quietism on Voltaire’s Later Works /; Rousseau’s Partial Reception of Fénelon: From the Corruptions of Luxury to the Contradictions of Society /; Fénelon’s Cuckoo: Andrew Michael Ramsay and the Archbishop Fénelon /; From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain /; Prendre modèle sur Télémaque: The Fénelonian Underpinnings of ‘Cultural Policy’ at the Court of Philip V of Spain /; Quietistic Pietists? The Reception of Fénelon in Central Germany c. 1700 /; Fénelon and Classical America /; The Adventures of Telemachus in the Luso-Brazilian World /; The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon’s Télémaque /; Telemachus – Dositej Obradović’s Last Wish. The Serbian Reception of Fénelon /; Polish Translations of Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus in the 18th and early 19th Century /; Painting Telemachus in the French Regency /; The Rejected Maxim: Images of Fénelon in Rome 1699 and by Catholic Reformers c. 1800 /; Collecting Fénelon: Images, Imaginations, and Collecting Portraits /; Fénelon’s Operatic Novel: Audiovisual Topoi in Télémaque and their Representation in Opera /; Biographical Notes --; Index --; Appeared earlier in the series: INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGEN ZUR ALLGEMEINEN UND VERGLEICHENDEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401210640
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: with a preface by Jacques Le Brun ; edited by Christoph Schmitt-Maass, Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn.

François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fénelon’s ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time has as yet found no coherent and comprehensive answer. By taking Fénelon’s intellectual influence as a matter of ‘cultural translation’, this anthology traces the reception of Fénelon and his multifaceted writings outside of France, and in doing so aims to enrich not only our understanding of the Enlightenment, but also of the thinker himself.