Scotland and France in the Enlightenment
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© 2008 AGI-Information Management Consultants May be used for personal purporses only or by Scotland and Franclibrariese associated to dandelon.com network. in the Enlightenment Edited by Deidre Dawson and Pierre Morere Lewisburg Bucknell University Press London: Associated University Presses Contents Illustrations 9 Preface 11 RICHARD B. SHER Introduction: A New Incarnation of the Auld Alliance: "Franco-Scottish Studies" 13 PIERRE MORERE and DEIDRE DAWSON Part I: Literature and the Arts Scotland and France in Smollett's Present State of All Nations, 1768-69 35 PAUL-GABRIEL BOUCE Voltaire's L'Ecossaise: The Story of a French and Scottish Fraud 61 SYLVIE KLEIMAN-LAFON Ossian and Belles Lettres: Scottish Influence on J.-B.-A. Suard and Late-Eighteenth-Century French Taste and Criticism 74 PIERRE CARBONI The French Taste for Scottish Literary Romanticism 90 ANDREW HOOK "Peine forte et dure": Scott and France 108 SUSAN MANNING French Art and the Scottish Enlightenment 128 DUNCAN MACMILLAN Part II: Encyclopaedias and Natural History The Tortoise and the Hare: A Comparison of the Longevity of the Encyclopaedia Britannica with the Encyclopedic 161 FRANK A. KAFKER The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the French Revolution 175 KATHLEEN HARDESTY DOIG 8 CONTENTS French Thought in William Smellie's Natural History: A Scottish Reception of Buffon and Condillac 192 JEFF LOVELAND Part III: Philosophy and Political Thought The Souls of Beasts: Hume and French Philosophy 221 A. E. PITSON The Representation of Adam Smith and David Hume in the Annie Litteraire and the Journal Encyclopedique 240 HARVEY CHISICK From Moral Philosophy to Public Policy: Sophie de Grouchy's Translation and Critique of Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments 264 DEIDRE DAWSON Enlightenment and Its Discontents: Robert Wallace and Rousseau on the Republic of Virtue 284 B. BARNETT COCHRAN Beccaria, Voltaire, and the Scots on Capital Punishment: A Comparative View of the Legal Enlightenment 305 FERENC HORCHER Contributors 331 Index 335.