La Découverte de l’île Frivole by Gabriel-François Coyer
A Bilingual Edition by Jean-Alexandre Perras
Click cover to enlarge Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Modern Humanities Research Association 16 September 2022 ISBN: 978-1-781888-87-2 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ISBN: 978-1-781889-03-9 (JSTOR ebook) Sample: Google Books • Access online: Books@JSTOR La Découverte de l'Ile Frivole (1751) is presented as a supplement to George Anson’s Voyage Round the World, and recounts the adventures of the English admiral and his crew on a strange island whose inhabitants, the Frivolians, are devoted to fashion, hairstyles, novels, and fancy desserts. This tale is at once both playful and cynical and its biting irony spares neither the reputation of France nor that of England. It resonates with the most critical attacks by Jean-Jacques Rousseau against luxury and refinement, or those of Voltaire against his compatriots. This volume provides the first bilingual critical edition of a text that, in its time, caused a stir both in France and in England. Jean-Alexandre Perras is Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Perras, A Bilingual Edition by Jean-Alexandre, La Découverte de l’île Frivole by Gabriel-François Coyer, Critical Texts, 76 (MHRA, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 La Découverte de l’île Frivole by Gabriel-François Coyer, a Bilingual Edition by Jean-Alexandre Perras, Critical Texts, 76 (MHRA, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Perras, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Perras, A Bilingual Edition by Jean-Alexandre. 2022. La Découverte de l’île Frivole by Gabriel-François Coyer, Critical Texts, 76 (MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Perras 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Perras 2022: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/La-Découverte-de-lîle-Frivole-by-Gabriel-François-Coyer www.mhra.org.uk/publications/ct-76 |
