Fénelon in the Enlightenment : With a Preface by Jacques le Brun.

Intro -- Fénelon in the Enlightenment: Traditions, Adaptations, and Variations: With a preface by Jacques Le Brun -- Table of Contents -- Préface : Une réception paradoxale -- Introduction: 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 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.

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.

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