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The Bohemians

Übersetzer: Folkenflik, Vivian

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Produktbeschreibung

Rediscovered by Robert Darnton and brought gloriously back to life in Vivian Folkenflik's translation, The Bohemians at last takes its place as a major work of eighteenth century libertinism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780812221756
• ISBN-10: 0812221753
• Artikelnr.: 33874387

Autorenporträt

Vivian Folkenflik is Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, and editor and translator of An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Stael. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library and the author of The Devil in the Holy Water, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Translator's Note
List of Main Characters
Chapter 1. The Legislator Bissot Renounces Chicanery in Favor of Philosophy
Chapter 2. The Two Brothers Wander on the Plains of Champagne
Chapter 3. Supper Better Than Dinner
Chapter 4. Who Were These People Supping Under the Stars on the Plains of
Champagne?
Chapter 5. Reveille; The Troupe Marches Forward; Unremarkable Adventures
Chapter 6. Cock-Crow
Chapter 7. After Which, Try to Say There Are No Ghosts . . .
Chapter 8. The Denouement
Chapter 9. Nocturnal Adventures That Deserve to See the Light of Day, and
Worthy of an Academician's Pen
Chapter 10. The Terrible Effects of Causes
Chapter 11. Uncivil Dissertations
Chapter 12. Parallel of Mendicant and Proprietary Monks
Chapter 13. Various Projects Highly Important to the Public Weal
Chapter 14. On Hospitality
Chapter 15. Morning Matins at the Charterhouse
Chapter 16. Panegyric of the Clergy
Chapter 17. A Mouse with Only One Hole Is Easy to Take
Chapter 18. How Lungiet Was Interrupted by a Miracle
Chapter 19. Which Will Not Be Long
Chapter 20. A Pilgrim's Narrative
Chapter 21. Continuation of the Pilgrim's Narrative
Notes