Author: MASON, H. (ed.)
Title: Transactions of the fifth international congress on the Enlightenment (Pisa, August-September 1979).
Description: Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1980. in 4 vols. 2040 pp. With 19 plates Cloth w.dustj. (SVEC 190-193; dustj.sl.used; some sl.dam.; lower corner vol.3, 4 sl.bumped). - heavy set, additional postage. ¶ Themes: Problems of periodisation; Present-day viewpoints; The 'philosophes' and politics; The sciences and epistemology; Reflecting upon history; Utopias and utopians; The sciences of society; The beginnings and development of political economy; Crisis and reform in the social institutions; Collective mentalities; Religious trends; Anthropology and linguistics; Narrative theories and techniques; Dramatic forms and structures; Poetry and poetics; Music and the figurative arts; The spread and social impact of books and culture; The portrayal and condition of women in eighteenth-century literature.

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