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9780729400435: Mme Riccoboni's letters to David Hume, David Garrick and Sir Robert Liston, 1764-1783: 149 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 1976)
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ISBN 10: 0729400433 ISBN 13: 9780729400435
Editorial: Voltaire Foundation, 1976

Sinopsis

If Mme de Riccoboni’s novels were widely known to the reading public of the eighteenth century, her best and most original productions were reserved for the privileged few who received her letters.

Mme de Riccoboni led a secluded life; she had no enemies and very few close friends. Her opinions tend to be disinterested and objective, unmotivated by spite or personal animosity. Her judgements on literary works, people and events were, however, influenced by three distinctive personal traits: her feminism, her pessimism, which grew stronger with advancing age, and her anglophilia which gradually gave way to a pronounced anglophobia. For today’s reader, Mme Riccoboni’s letters have a twofold interest – historical and human. On the one hand, they offer a tableau of eighteenth-century life seen from a particular viewpoint; on the other, they record the love of an older woman for a younger man. 

Although Mme de Riccoboni never intended her letters to be made public, she obviously wanted to please their recipients and took pains to make them interesting. This is especially true of her correspondence with David Hume, David Garrick and Robert Liston, and it is for this reason that they have been gathered into a single volume. 

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If Mme de Riccoboni's novels were widely known to the reading public of the eighteenth century, her best and most original productions were reserved for the privileged few who received her letters. Mme de Riccoboni led a secluded life; she had no enemies and very few close friends. Her opinions tend to be disinterested and objective, unmotivated by spite or personal animosity. Her judgements on literary works, people and events were, however, influenced by three distinctive personal traits: her feminism, her pessimism, which grew stronger with advancing age, and her anglophilia which gradually gave way to a pronounced anglophobia. For today's reader, Mme Riccoboni's letters have a twofold interest - historical and human. On the one hand, they offer a tableau of eighteenth-century life seen from a particular viewpoint; on the other, they record the love of an older woman for a younger man. Although Mme de Riccoboni never intended her letters to be made public, she obviously wanted to please their recipients and took pains to make them interesting. This is especially true of her correspondence with David Hume, David Garrick and Robert Liston, and it is for this reason that they have been gathered into a single volume.

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Editorial
Voltaire Foundation
Año de publicación
1976
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0729400433
ISBN 13 
9780729400435
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
471
Editor
Nicholls J. C.
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