The Continental Model
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The Continental Model

Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century in English Translation

  1. 417 pages
  2. English
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The Continental Model

Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century in English Translation

About this book

The Continental Model was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The pervasive influence of seventeenth-century French criticism upon eighteenth-century English criticism makes it important for students of English and comparative literature to be familiar with the most important of the French works. Professors Elledge and Schier bring together here, in translation, some of the best examples of the French essays. They have chosen particularly works that are not otherwise available in translation.

Some of the translations are by contemporaries of the period. These are of works by d'Aubignac, Saint-Evremond, Huet, Rapin, Le Bossu, Bouhours, La Bruyere, and Fontenelle. Other selections have been translated by Professor Schier, and these include works of Chapelain, Sarasin, Scudery, Corneille, Bouhours, and Fontenelle.

The editors provide brief and pertinent comment on each writer and his place in literary history. They have also annotated the essays in order to save time for the reader who encounters references to other literatures not immediately clear to him. The volume as a whole provides a comprehensive and balanced selection of critical texts which were known to, used by, and significant in their influence upon writers such as Dryden, Dennis, Addison, Swift, Pope, and others.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Jean Chapelain: HIS OPINION OF THE POEM ADONE (1623)
  3. Jean Chapelain: ON THE READING OF THE OLD ROMANCES
  4. Jean-François Sarasin: DISCOURSE ON TRAGEDY (1639)
  5. Georges de Scudéry: PREFACE TO ALARIC, OR ROME DEFEATED (1654)
  6. François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac: SELECTIONS FROM THE WHOLE ART OF THE STAGE (1657)
  7. Pierre Corneille: OF THE THREE UNITIES (1660)
  8. Charles de Saint-Evremond: SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF M. DE SAINT-EVREMOND
  9. Pierre-Daniel Huet, Bishop of Avranches: SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL OF ROMANCES (1670)
  10. Dominique Bouhours: THE BEL ESPRIT FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE (1671)
  11. Dominique Bouhours: THE JE NE SAIS QUOI FROM THE CONVERSATIONS OF ARISTO AND EUGENE (1671)
  12. Dominique Bouhours: SELECTIONS FROM THE ART OF CRITICISM (1687)
  13. René Rapin: REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S TREATISE OF POESY IN GENERAL (1674)
  14. René Rapin: REFLECTIONS ON ARISTOTLE'S BOOK OF POESY IN PARTICULAR (1674)
  15. René Le Bossu: SELECTIONS FROM TREATISE OF THE EPICK POEM (1675)
  16. Jean de La Bruyére: OF POLITE LEARNING FROM CHARACTERS (1687)
  17. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: OF PASTORALS (1688)
  18. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle: A DIGRESSION ON THE ANCIENTS AND THE MODERNS (1688)
  19. NOTES
  20. INDEX