Ireland and French Enlightenment, 1700-1800

• Author(s): G. Gargett, G. Sheridan,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 293
• ISBN_10: 0230510159
  ISBN_13: 9780230510159
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... By what channels did the French Enlightenment reach the eighteenth-century Irish reader, and what impact did it have? What were the images of Ireland current in the France of the philosophers like Voltaire? These are the questions which a team of scholars attempt to answer in this volume.