Peripheries of the Enlightenment

Simon Davies was formerly Professor of Enlightenment Studies and the founding Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the assistant Director of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Electronic Enlightenment) and the general editor of two volumes of Bernardin’s Complete Works (Garnier).

• AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsRichard Butterwick, Peripheries of the Enlightenment: an introductionSimon Davies, Whither/wither France: Voltaire’s view from FerneyGraham Gargett, French periphery, European centre: eighteenth-century Geneva and its contribution to the EnlightenmentMichael Brown, Was there an Irish Enlightenment? The case of the AnglicansJohn Robertson, Political economy and the ‘feudal system’ in Enlightenment Naples: outline of a problemMarie-Christine Skuncke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Swedish eyes around 1760Orsolya Szakály, Enlightened self-interest: the development of an entrepreneurial culture within the Hungarian eliteMartin Fitzpatrick, The view from Mount Pleasant: Enlightenment in late eighteenth-century LiverpoolSimon Burrows, Grub Street revolutionaries: marginal writers at the Enlightenment’s periphery?Ultán Gillen, Varieties of Enlightenment: the Enlightenment and Irish political culture in the age of revolutionsGabriel Sánchez Espinosa, An ilustrado in his province: Jovellanos in AsturiasRichard Butterwick, Between Anti-Enlightenment and enlightened Catholicism: provincial preachers in late eighteenth-century Poland-LithuaniaSimon Dixon, 'Prosveshchenie’: Enlightenment in eighteenth-century RussiaFiona Clark, The Gazeta de Literatura de México and the edge of reason: when is a periphery not a periphery?Lynda Pratt, Tea and national history? Ann Yearsley, John Thelwall and the late eighteenth-century provincial English epicPeter Hanns Reill, The Enlightenment from the German periphery: Johann Herder’s reinterpretation of the EnlightenmentSummariesBibliographyIndex

'The strength of this book lies in the excellent quality of the individual studies and in the diversity of the experiences of the Enlightenment which it offers, stripping away the barriers created by linguistic, political and cultural divisions.'Eighteenth-century Ireland