Charles Sorel

Charles Sorel, est un romancier et crivain fran ais du XVIIe si cle. Polygraphe, il alterne oeuvres de fiction et oeuvres d' rudition. comme cet essai sur le choix des livres " lire" qui anticipe ce que sera plus tard l'expertise culturelle du lecteur et la sociologie de la litt rature. Il y nonce une m thodologie nouvelle pour parvenir s lectionner les livres de qualit . De la connaissance des bons livres est une oeuvre encore largement sous-estim e qui m rite une re-d couverte.

In 1626, Charles Sorel published L'Orphize de Chrysante, a straightforward sentimental adventure novel. . . to judge by a somewhat rushed reading. In fact, an ironic story is hiding behind this inoffensive facade in terms of both content (libertine speech) and form (an ironic relationship with the commonplaces used).

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT135748The Sieur de Parc = Charles Sorel. London: printed for M. Poulson and sold by J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, and 4 others in London], 1727. 2v., plates; 12

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT135748The Sieur de Parc = Charles Sorel. London: printed for M. Poulson and sold by J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, and 4 others in London], 1727. 2v., plates; 12

In 1640, Charles Sorel published the only narrative fiction bearing his name, La Solitude et l'amour philosophique de Cleomede. This work is simultaneously a partly allegorical novel of philosophical initiation, a more or less admittedly genealogical story, and a treatise on practical morality that contains its share of poetry.