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Dessinateur humoriste, WILLETTE illustre, dans ce numéro spécial sur grand papier publié le 23 novembre 1899, l'éternelle bataille entre les Anglais et les Français... Numéro 264, 6ème année du RIRE, journal humoristique hebdomadaire "de dessins et quelques textes" (in Dico Solo, 740). Adolphe Léon WILLETTE (1857-1926) est élève de CABANEL à l'Ecole des Beaux-arts. Il collabore à de nombreux journaux, Le Rire, Le Chat Noir. Polémiste ardent, il fonde deux journaux, Le Pierrot et Le Pied de Nez, et participe avec Steinlein à la création du journal Les Humoristes en 1910. C'est un des créateurs avec Forain (antidreyfusard comme lui), Poulbot et Neumont de la République de Montmartre. Bords très légèrement frottés, quelques rousseurs éparses et reliure postérieure. Nous joignons, à notre exemplaire sur Grand Papier et tiré à 100 exemplaires numérotés, un exemplaire à grand tirage, dont la couverture se détache et présente des manques de papier.
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Letters Concerning the English Nation. - [A KEY WORK OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY]
London, C. Davis and A. Lyon, 1733. 8vo. Lovely contemporary full Cambridge-style binding with five raised bands to spine and blindstamped ornamental borders to boards. . Double gilt line-borders to boards. All edges of boards with gilt borders. Gilt title to spine. Hinges neatly and professionally re-inforced. Internally very nice, clean, and fresh. A lovely, crisp, and large copy with good margins, printed on heavy, fine paper. (16, -including preface, contents, advertisements), 253, (1), (18, -Index) pp.
The important actual first edition of this highly celebrated key work of the Enlightenment, in which the anecdote of how Newton discovered gravity (the story about Newton and the falling apple) appeared for the first time, together with the description of the difference between the physical world view of the English and the French (the ""plenum"" and the ""vacuum""). This seminal work, in which Voltaire famously depicts British philosophy, science, society and culture, in comparison to French, can be viewed as the Enlightenment equivalent to Tocqueville's ""Democracy in America"". This series of essays, which is based on Voltaire's experiences when living in England, was actually written by Voltaire mostly in English, which he mastered to perfection. It has often been presumed that the first edition of the work was that published in French in 1734, but actually, the present English edition constitutes the actual first appearance of the work as well as the version that is closest to Voltaire's intention, as the French language version is the re-written one, and the English version the original. Curiously, almost all modern English versions are translations into English of the French edition, instead of the original English version, making this edition of the utmost importance.After the original English edition of 1733, two French editions soon followed (the first in 1734). Unlike the British, the French resented the book, and already in 1734, the French Parliament issued an order for the author's arrest and condemned the work, causing the impact of it in France to be delayed. The book was burned for being ""dangerous to religion and civil order"". At the same time, the work became a bestseller in Britain, and as much as 14 editions of the work were published in the eighteenth century. ""Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have placed the Letters among the great Augustan satires. Voltaire wrote most of the book in English, in which he was fluent and witty, and it fast became a bestseller in Britain. He re-wrote it in French as the Lettres philosophiques, and current editions in English translate his French."" (Nicholas Cronk, Introduction to the Oxford's Classics edition from 1999).The great French philosopher Voltaire was greatly impressed by the philosophical and scientific achievements of the English, especially those of Newton, Locke, and Bacon. As a disseminator of scientific knowledge, Voltaire came to play a great rôle in the popularization of Newtonian science and its discoveries, the present work being a prime example. Although the work was condemned by the French authorities, it still came to play a great rôle in the spreading of Newtonian ideas in France. The present work generally came to play a dominant rôle in Enlightenment accounts of the history of science and philosophy. The work focuses on British science and thought and uses the accounts of these to emphasize what is lacking in French society and French thought. The work is generally very critical towards the French ""ancient régime"", and when Voltaire here discusses the emergence of empiricism, it is viewed as an English tradition that stands in opposition to the French rationalist tradition (with Descartes as the prime example). This view is taken over by the following Enlightenment historians of science and philosophy, e.g. d'Alembert (see for instance his ""Preliminary Discourse"" of 1751). Some of the most influential passages of the work are probably those on Bacon (who Voltaire sees as the founder of modern experimental science), Newton, and Descartes. Letters XIV, on Descartes and Newton, XV, on attraction, and XVI, on Newton's Optics (from 1704), are among the most influential essays of the work. In XVI Voltaire reflects upon Newton's ""Optics"" and the way that he rejected Descartes' theory and set out his own account of the properties of light. In XV he presents the first account of Newton and the falling apple: ""As he was walking one Day in his Garden, and saw some Fruits fall from a Tree, he fell into profound Meditation on that Gravity, the Cause of which had so long been sought, but in vain, by all the Philosophers, whilst the Vulgar think there is nothing mysterious in it. He said to himself, that from what height soever, in our Hemisphere, those Bodies might descend, their Fall wou'd certainly be in the Progression discover'd by Galileo" and the Spaces they run thro' would be as the Square of the Times. Why may not this Power which causes heavy Bodies to descend, and is the fame without any sensible Diminution at the remotest Distance from the Center of the Earth, or on the Summits of the highest Mountains" Why, said Sir Isaac, may not this Power extend as high as the Moon?..."" (pp. 127-28).But perhaps the most famous passage in the volume is the opening of Letter XIV: ""A Frenchman who arrives in London, will find Philosophy, like every Thing else, very much chang'd there. He had left the World a ""plenum"", and he now finds it a ""vacuum"". At Paris the Universe is seen, compos'd of Vortices of subtile Matter" but nothing like it is seen in London. In France, 'tis the Pressure of the Moon that causes the Tides but in England 'tis the Sea that gravitates towards the Moon" so that when you think that the Moon should make it Flood with us, those Gentlemen fancy it should be Ebb, which, very unluckily, cannot be prov'd..."" (pp. 109-10).
Old English Poetry from Manuscript to Message
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xviii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 14 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600314.
Summary By comparison with Latin Europe, Anglo-Saxon civilization is notable for the amount of literature preserved in contemporary manuscripts in the vernacular language, formerly called ?Anglo-Saxon' but now more usually called ?Old English'. This literature includes some remarkable poetry, which is the subject of the present collection of essays. Some of the earliest poems may well have been written at a time when northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. The approach is holistic, investigating important issues in the manuscripts that affect the integrity of the texts to be studied or the way they relate to each other, examining metrical issues that affect the way the poems are appreciated for their compositional skill, studying particular textual problems that require elucidation or even emendation to make the meaning clear, and finally offering readings of particular poems focussing on themes that are central to Old English poetry. A postscript examines Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, which is presented as a ?Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry'. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Section A: Manuscripts Foreword 1. The Place of Judith in the Beowulf-Manuscript 2. The Vercelli Book Revisited 3. The Structure of the Junius Manuscript, with a Survey of Places of Possible Loss 4. On the Incomplete Ending of Daniel and the Addition of Christ and Satan to MS Junius 11 Section B: Metre Foreword 5. Some Aspects of the Interaction between Verse Grammar and Metre in Old English Poetry 6. On the Ro?le of Some Adverbs in Old English Verse Grammar 7. The Metrical Epilogue to the Alfredian Pastoral Care: A Postscript from Junius 8. Franciscus Junius and the Versification of Judith Section C: Textual Problems Foreword 9. Beowulf 214: eolet t ende 10. Andreas 733b 11. Christ III 1476b 12. The Seafarer 62b, anfloga: Lone Ranger or Away-day Flier? 13. Genesis B 623-5: Part of the Speech to Eve? 14. Exodus 480: mod gerymde 15. Exodus 265: gnian 16. Daniel 276 Section D: Readings Foreword 17. Loyalty and Obedience in the Old English Genesis and the Interpolation of Genesis B into Genesis A 18. Sengeley in synglere. The Language of the Loner: From Splendid Isolation to 'Individual' in Early English Poetry? 19. The Cross in Exodus 20. Easter, the Death of Saint Guthlac and the Liturgy for Holy Saturday in Felix's Vita and the Old English Guthlac B 21. Judith and the Woman Hero Section E: Postscript 22. From Jabberwocky back to Old English: Nonsense, Anglo-Saxon, and Oxford *** Publications by Peter L. Lucas aetatis suae LXXX Select Bibliography Indices
A Short History of English Literature
Penguin Books , Pelican Books Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1969 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's wrappers In-8 1 vol. - 287 pages
Contents, Chapitres : Before the Conquest - English Poetry from Chaucer to John Donne - English poetry from Milton to William Blake - The Romantic poets - English poetry from Tennyson to the present day - English drama to Shakespeare - English drama from Shakespeare to Sheridan - English drama from Sheridan to present day - The English novel to Defoe - The English novel from Richardson to Sir Walter Scott - The English novel from Dickens to the present day - English prose to the Eighteenth century - Modern English prose - Index The paper is lightly browning, else near fine copy, very few words underlined and tracks at ink in the margin (very light annotations, the text remains readable). - pocket edition
Sources of Knowledge in Old English and Anglo-Latin Literature. Studies in Honour of Charles D. Wright
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 460 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 3 col., 8 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503604428.
Summary This volume positions source scholarship as integral to an understanding of the transmission of knowledge across intellectual, social, and material networks in early medieval England. Essays in this collection situate source studies in Old English and Anglo-Latin literature within a range of theoretical and methodological approaches as varied as disability studies, feminist theory, history of science, and network analysis, tracing how ideas move across cultures and showing how studying sources enables us to represent the diversity of medieval voices embedded in any given text. The essays in this volume extend the work of Charles D. Wright, who mentored a generation of scholars in methodologies of source study. The essays are organized into three sections. The first demonstrates how source studies facilitate tracing ideas across space and time. The second explores what happens to texts and ideas when they are transmitted from one culture, language, or historical moment to another. The third shows how sources illuminate wider cultural discourses. The volume attests to the flexibility of source work for early medieval English literature and argues for increased access to the tools that make such work possible. TABLE OF CONTENTS Sources of Knowledge: A Reflection on Charles D. Wright's Career THOMAS N. HALL Introduction STEPHANIE CLARK, JANET SCHRUNK ERICKSEN, and SHANNON GODLOVE I. Networks of Knowledge lfric's Traditions about the Apostles and Media Networks BRANDON HAWK Reading Lyric I of the Old English Advent Lyrics as Form-of-Life JOHANNA KRAMER Bede's Books Don't Tell Lies: Named Sources, Unideal Readers, and Bede's Welsh Reception JOSHUA BYRON SMITH lfric's Leitwortstil: Repetition and Autoreferentiality as Adaptive Techniques in the Old English Esther SAMANTHA ZACHER Source Study and the Inconclusive Result: The Case of Candidus Witto's De passione Domini CHRISTOPHER A. JONES II. Translation and Transformation of Knowledge Christ as Doorkeeper in Genesis A THOMAS N. HALL Spiritual Virtues, Unseen Spaces, and the Optics of Authority in Early Medieval English Accounts of Judith JILL FITZGERALD Bede, Cuthbert, and Cuthwine: Conlectores at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow FREDERICK M. BIGGS A Source for a 'Homily' in Byrhtferth's Enchiridion STEPHEN PELLE The Digressions in Andreas THOMAS D. HILL From Eriugena to Dostoyevsky: Christian Universalism in Hiberno-Latin Contexts and its Continued Significance PAUL A.K. SIEWERS III. Bodies of Knowledge Translatio medicinae: Mediterranean Sources in an English Climate RENE R. TRILLING Medievalism, Medicine, and William Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum REBECCA BRACKMANN Modblind and Unl d: Disability, Intersectionality, and Typology in the Old English Andreas AMITY READING Swallowed and Forgotten: Christ III and the Mouth of Hell in Early Medieval England JILL HAMILTON CLEMENTS Index
Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I. A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxxii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 8 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503545516.
Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique prose legendary almost entirely of female saints, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns. The manuscript, which also has varied post-medieval items, is written in one hand probably dating from c. 1480 to c. 1510. This previously unstudied Middle English collection features twenty-two universal and native saints, both common (like John the Baptist and thelthryth) and rare (such as Wihtburh and Domitilla). These texts are dependent on a complex mixture of Latin sources and analogues. Specific linguistic and art-historical features, as well as attention to the predominant female saints of Ely and post-medieval provenance, suggest an East Anglian convent for the original readership. Through an exploration of the manuscript and its later ownership (both recusant and antiquarian), a discussion of its linguistic attributes, a consideration of local female monastic and book history, a comparison of hagiographical texts, and a wide-ranging source and analogue study, this Study fully contextualises these Middle English lives. The book concludes with a survey of the structural and stylistic aspects of the texts, followed by three appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The texts are edited for the first time in its companion volume, Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface I. The Manuscript II. Language and Dialectal Provenance III. Convent and Geographical Location IV. Hagiographical Context and the Selection of Saints V. Latin Sources and Analogues VI. Reading the ?Lyves and Dethes' Conclusion Appendix 1. Universal Latin Saints' Lives: Sources and Analogues Appendix 2. Latin and Middle English Versions of Athelthryth Appendix 3. Middle English Translations of John the Evangelist Bibliography Index
