TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palissot de Montenoy,Charles
AU  - Edwards-Jones,Lorenzo
AU  - Ferret,Olivier
AU  - Goodman,Jessica Mary
AU  - Gray,Caitlin
AU  - Gush,Felicity
AU  - Jackson,Phoebe
AU  - Ludekens,Nina
AU  - Rigby,Rosie
ED  - Open Book Publishers,
TI  - The Philosophes
SN  - 9781783749102
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Open Book Publishers
KW  - Palissot de Montenoy, Charles,
KW  - French drama (Comedy)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - French drama
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - Drama
N1  - Available through Open Book Publishers; Originally published in French as: Les Philosophes; Includes bibliography (pages 219-221); Introduction / Jessica Goodman and Olivier Ferret -- Letter by Mr Palissot, Author of the Comedy The Philsophes, to Serve as a Preface to the Play / Charles Palissot de Montenoy and Jessica Goodman -- The Philosophes -- Lettre du Sieur Palissot, Auteur de la Comédie des Philosophes, pour Servir de Préface a la Pièce / Charles Palissot de Montenoy -- Les Philosophes -- Endnotes / Jessica Jessica and Olivier Ferret -- Bibliography.
N2  - "In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes - a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, including the likes of Diderot and Rousseau. This book presents the first high-quality English translation of the play, including critical apparatus. The translation is based on Olivier Ferret's edition, and renders the text into iambic pentameter to preserve the character of the original. Adaptations are further provided of Ferret's introduction and notes. This masterful and highly accessible translation of Les Philosophes opens up this polemical text to a non-specialist audience. It will be a valuable resource to non-Francophone scholars and students working on the philosophical exchanges of the Enlightenment. Moreover, this translation - the result of a year-long project undertaken by Jessica Goodman with six of her undergraduate French students - expounds the value of collaboration between scholar and student, and, as such, provides a model for other language tutors embarking on translation projects with their students."--Publisher's website
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0201
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