Ireland and the French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Abbreviations......Page 8
Notes on the Contributors......Page 11
Introduction and Acknowledgements......Page 14
Part I: Irish Readers and Readings......Page 20
1 Readership in French: the Irish Experience......Page 22
2 Irish Literary Review Magazines and Enlightenment France: 1730–1790......Page 40
3 Montesquieu and Burke......Page 66
4 Voltaire’s Reception in Ireland......Page 86
5 Rousseau in Eighteenth-Century Irish Journals: ‘A Wanton and Romantic Imagination’......Page 109
6 French Scientific Innovation in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dublin: the Hydrogen Balloon Experiments of Richard Crosbie (1783–1785)......Page 126
Part II: Ireland Seen from France......Page 146
7 Attitudes towards Ireland and the Irish in Enlightenment France......Page 148
8 Voltaire’s View of the Irish......Page 171
Part III: Tools of Transmission......Page 190
9 The Trade in French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland......Page 192
10 Ireland and the French Theatre......Page 216
11 Irish Church Libraries and the French Enlightenment......Page 232
Appendixes......Page 252
Appendix 1 Literary Review Magazines Printed in Ireland, 1700–1790......Page 254
Appendix 2 List of Books Connected with the French Enlightenment, 1700–1800......Page 262
B......Page 304
E......Page 305
H......Page 306
L......Page 307
N......Page 308
R......Page 309
V......Page 310
W......Page 312