Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
from Part III - Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
Book contents
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Ideas in Context
- Plutarch’s Prism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Plutarch in Renaissance France and England
- Part III Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Plutarch
- Chapter 8 Shedding New Light on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)
- Chapter 9 Plutarch on Stage: Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine
- Chapter 10 Plutarch in the Long Eighteenth Century with a Focus on British and Irish Political Thought
- Chapter 11 Plutarch in French Enlightenment Thought: The Abbé de Saint-Pierre, the Abbé Mably and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 studies the broad contours of Plutarch’s place in political argument in English and Irish thinkers of the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This includes the significance of the translation headed by John Dryden (1631–1700) and the work of Jonathan Swift (1667–1745).
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- Plutarch's PrismClassical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800, pp. 351 - 366Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022