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.

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 Bourg...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 178
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Une réception paradoxale / Jacques Le Brun
  • Early Modernism, Catholicism and the Role of the Subject – Fénelon as a Representative of the Age of Enlightenment / Christoph Schmitt-Maaß , Stefanie Stockhorst and Doohwan Ahn
  • And if Voltaire Ceased to be Voltaire? The Influence of Fénelon’s Quietism on Voltaire’s Later Works / Karen Pagani
  • Rousseau’s Partial Reception of Fénelon: From the Corruptions of Luxury to the Contradictions of Society / Matthew D. Mendham
  • Fénelon’s Cuckoo: Andrew Michael Ramsay and the Archbishop Fénelon / Andrew Mansfield
  • From Idomeneus to Protesilaus: Fénelon in Early Hanoverian Britain / Doohwan Ahn
  • Prendre modèle sur Télémaque: The Fénelonian Underpinnings of ‘Cultural Policy’ at the Court of Philip V of Spain / Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas and Sara Muniain Ederra
  • Quietistic Pietists? The Reception of Fénelon in Central Germany c. 1700 / Christoph Schmitt-Maaß
  • Fénelon and Classical America / Patricia A. Ward
  • The Adventures of Telemachus in the Luso-Brazilian World / Márcia Abreu
  • The Ottoman Reception of Fénelon’s Télémaque / Arzu Meral
  • Telemachus – Dositej Obradović’s Last Wish. The Serbian Reception of Fénelon / Dragana Grbić
  • Polish Translations of Fénelon’s The Adventures of Telemachus in the 18th and early 19th Century / Anna Szyrwińska
  • Painting Telemachus in the French Regency / Mary D. Sheriff
  • The Rejected Maxim: Images of Fénelon in Rome 1699 and by Catholic Reformers c. 1800 / Bernward Schmidt
  • Collecting Fénelon: Images, Imaginations, and Collecting Portraits / Silvia Schmitt-Maaß
  • Fénelon’s Operatic Novel: Audiovisual Topoi in Télémaque and their Representation in Opera / Bruno Forment
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index
  • Appeared earlier in the series: INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGEN ZUR ALLGEMEINEN UND VERGLEICHENDEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT.