Authors of the enlightenment : 1660 to 1800 /
Authors of the enlightenment : 1660 to 1800 /
edited by J.E. Luebering.
- first edition.
- New York : Britannica Educational Pub., (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
- The Britannica guide to authors .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Paul Scarron -- Samuel Butler -- John Cleveland -- Francois VI, duke de La -- Rochefoucauld -- John Evelyn -- Andrew Marvell -- Jean de La Fontaine -- Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen -- Moliere -- Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, viscount of Guilleragues -- Zhu Yizun -- John Dryden -- Samuel Pepys -- Nicolas Boileau -- Jean Racine -- Mariana Alcoforado -- Aphra Behn -- William Wycherley -- Ihara Saikaku -- Thomas Shadwell -- Basho -- Jean de La Bruyere -- John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Thomas Otway -- Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- Daniel Defoe -- John Arbuthnot -- Jonathan Swift -- William Congreve -- Colley Cibber -- Joseph Addison -- Sir Richard Steele -- Ahmed Nedim -- Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg -- John Gay -- Allan Ramsay -- Pierre Marivaux -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Samuel Richardson -- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield -- Voltaire -- Richard Savage -- James Thomson -- Henry Brooke -- Antonio Jose da Silva -- Benjamin Franklin -- Carlo Goldoni -- Henry Fielding -- Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir -- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset -- Samuel Johnson -- Sarah Fielding -- Laurence Sterne -- Thomas Gray -- Buson -- Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford -- Tobias Smollett -- William Collins -- Goronwy Owen -- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock -- Giovanni Giacomo Casanova -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Charlotte Lennox -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Lucy Terry -- William Cowper -- Sophie von La Roche -- Christoph Martin Wieland -- Ueda Akinari -- Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crevecoeur -- James Macpherson -- Thomas Paine -- Edward Gibbon -- Hester Lynch Piozzi -- Marquis de Sade -- James Boswell -- Basilio da Gama -- Johannes Ewald -- Olaudah Equiano -- Hannah More -- Vittorio, Count Alfieri -- Robert Fergusson -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Philip Freneau -- Fanny Burney -- Thomas Chatterton -- Phillis Wheatley -- George Crabbe -- Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz -- Royall Tyler -- Galib Dede -- Robert Burns -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- William Beckford -- Andre de Chenier -- Jean Paul -- Ann Radcliffe -- William Hill Brown -- Maria Edgeworth.
Reason, rationality, and reform were the watchwords of the Enlightenment era and the themes of much of the writing that appeared at that time. Such luminaries as Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine took up their pens to illuminate the social injustices and injuries to personal freedom that pervaded their societies. The lives of these writers and others--from novelists, dramatists, and poets to satirists, social critics, and more--are profiled in this volume.
9781622750108 9781299682610
Authors--18th century--Biography.
Literature, Modern--18th century--Bio-bibliography.
Authorship--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
PN451 / .A984 2014
Includes bibliographies and index.
Paul Scarron -- Samuel Butler -- John Cleveland -- Francois VI, duke de La -- Rochefoucauld -- John Evelyn -- Andrew Marvell -- Jean de La Fontaine -- Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen -- Moliere -- Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, viscount of Guilleragues -- Zhu Yizun -- John Dryden -- Samuel Pepys -- Nicolas Boileau -- Jean Racine -- Mariana Alcoforado -- Aphra Behn -- William Wycherley -- Ihara Saikaku -- Thomas Shadwell -- Basho -- Jean de La Bruyere -- John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Thomas Otway -- Chikamatsu Monzaemon -- Daniel Defoe -- John Arbuthnot -- Jonathan Swift -- William Congreve -- Colley Cibber -- Joseph Addison -- Sir Richard Steele -- Ahmed Nedim -- Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg -- John Gay -- Allan Ramsay -- Pierre Marivaux -- Alexander Pope -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Samuel Richardson -- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield -- Voltaire -- Richard Savage -- James Thomson -- Henry Brooke -- Antonio Jose da Silva -- Benjamin Franklin -- Carlo Goldoni -- Henry Fielding -- Antiokh Dmitriyevich Kantemir -- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset -- Samuel Johnson -- Sarah Fielding -- Laurence Sterne -- Thomas Gray -- Buson -- Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford -- Tobias Smollett -- William Collins -- Goronwy Owen -- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock -- Giovanni Giacomo Casanova -- Mercy Otis Warren -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- Charlotte Lennox -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Lucy Terry -- William Cowper -- Sophie von La Roche -- Christoph Martin Wieland -- Ueda Akinari -- Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crevecoeur -- James Macpherson -- Thomas Paine -- Edward Gibbon -- Hester Lynch Piozzi -- Marquis de Sade -- James Boswell -- Basilio da Gama -- Johannes Ewald -- Olaudah Equiano -- Hannah More -- Vittorio, Count Alfieri -- Robert Fergusson -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Philip Freneau -- Fanny Burney -- Thomas Chatterton -- Phillis Wheatley -- George Crabbe -- Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz -- Royall Tyler -- Galib Dede -- Robert Burns -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- William Beckford -- Andre de Chenier -- Jean Paul -- Ann Radcliffe -- William Hill Brown -- Maria Edgeworth.
Reason, rationality, and reform were the watchwords of the Enlightenment era and the themes of much of the writing that appeared at that time. Such luminaries as Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine took up their pens to illuminate the social injustices and injuries to personal freedom that pervaded their societies. The lives of these writers and others--from novelists, dramatists, and poets to satirists, social critics, and more--are profiled in this volume.
9781622750108 9781299682610
Authors--18th century--Biography.
Literature, Modern--18th century--Bio-bibliography.
Authorship--History--18th century.
Electronic Books.
PN451 / .A984 2014