The Search for Enlightenment: Introduction to Eighteenth-Century French Writing (New Readings")

This introduction to the French Enlightenment corrects the view that the writers of the period were a mere stopover to modernity. It covers key exam literature, in particular Voltaire, Diderot, d'Alembert, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Rivarol, Sedaine, Palissot, theatre, gender issues and feminism.