Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text

Síofra Pierse is Associate Professor in French and Head of SLCL at University College Dublin. She specialises in 18th-century French literature, is editor of The City in French Writing (UCD Press), co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (Peter Lang), author of Voltaire historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (Voltaire Foundation) and Voltaire: A Reference Guide (forthcoming). Emma M. Dunne completed her PhD in French under Síofra Pierse (supervisor) as Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar and Resident Scholar at UCD Humanities Institute, University College Dublin. Her PhD investigates concepts of happiness, identity, migration and exile within the writings of Dutch-Swiss francophone author and composer, Isabelle de Charrière.

• AcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsCatriona Seth. Preface. Síofra Pierse. Introduction: Turmoil, Instability, Adaptation, Elasticity in the Eighteenth-Century Francophone TextSECTION I – Intimations of InsecurityIoana Galleron and Chiara Mainardi. Troubles, désordres, crises: une approche numérique des expressions de la tourmente au XVIIIe siècleKate E. Tunstall. The Knife and the Pen: The Attentat of 1757James Hanrahan. Political Turmoil in Voltaire’s Vision and Revision of the FrondeSECTION II – Filtering Natural Disasters Jenny Mander. The Antilles, the Natural History of Hurricanes and Earthquakes, the Seven Years’ War and Global Commerce through the Lens of Abbé Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes Laurence Macé. (Ré)inventer le Vésuve, modéliser la catastrophe, vivre la tourmente: Dupaty en Italie méridionale à la veille de la RévolutionSíofra Pierse. Voltaire and the Lisbon Disaster: From Aftershocks to AtaraxySECTION III – Instability and MemoryCyril Francès. Poétique de l’émotion populaire dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française de Nicolas Chamfort Adam Schoene. Turmoil and Corruption in Joséphine de Monbart’s Lettres tahitiennesErin-Marie Legacey. Disorder and the Dead in Revolutionary ParisSECTION IV – Sade and Female MarginalisationEdward T. O’Sullivan. Fictional Turmoil: The Bloodlust of Women in Sadean Libertine NarrativesShasha Ma. L’Insécurité du sexe féminin: de l’infanticide au féminicide chez SadeSECTION V – Resilience post TurmoilSimon Davies. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: le solitaire engagé Gabriel-Robert Thibault. La Résistance spirituelle dans la France des philosophesEmma M. Dunne. ‘A moi! A un proscrit! A un malheureux fugitif!’: Isabelle de Charrière’s Emigré-e-s amid the Turmoil of ExileJohn Leigh. Revolutionary Upheaval and Domestic Turmoil in Beaumarchais’s unsung play La Mère coupableNotes on ContributorsBibliography of Works CitedIndex