Professor Richard Scholar's Outputs (23)

Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France (2023)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2023). Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France. In C. Shrank, & P. Withington (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More’s Utopia. Oxford University Press

Inventing Utopia in early modern France invariably meant, in some way or other, translating the text. This was a complex process activating the full range of meanings that French in the period lent to the verb traduire: it involved transportation, ap... Read More about Inventing Utopia: The Case of Early Modern France.

Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin (2023)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2023). Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin. Early Modern French Studies, 45(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/20563035.2023.2200410

How do early modern utopias imagine space? In his 1973 study, Utopiques: jeux d’espaces, Louis Marin defines Utopia as the organization of space in a discourse that finds its expression in specific texts from More’s onwards. Utopia, as a no-place, is... Read More about Utopias and temporo-spatial invention: reading More with Marin.

Montaigne’s Essais, Shakespeare’s Trials, and other Experiments of Moment (2021)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2021). Montaigne’s Essais, Shakespeare’s Trials, and other Experiments of Moment. In L. Engle, P. Gray, & W. M. Hamlin (Eds.), Shakespeare and Montaigne (282-295). Edinburgh University Press

Dans les marges de l'utopie: le Commentario d’Ortensio Lando (2021)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2021). Dans les marges de l'utopie: le Commentario d’Ortensio Lando. In T. Reeser, & D. LaGuardia (Eds.), Théories critiques et littérature de la Renaissance: mélanges offerts à Lawrence Kritzman (91-98). Classiques Garnier

Émigrés: French Words That Turned English (2020)
Book
Scholar, R. (2020). Émigrés: French Words That Turned English. Princeton University Press

English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would otherwise elude the language. Richard Sc... Read More about Émigrés: French Words That Turned English.

Montaigne on Free-Thinking (2017)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2017). Montaigne on Free-Thinking. In P. Desan (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne (434-452). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.23

Abstract and Keywords This essay suggests that free-thinking is an important and often misunderstood context for the venture—and adventure—of Montaigne’s Essays. Where free-thinking is now generally understood to indicate a principled independence fr... Read More about Montaigne on Free-Thinking.

Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean (2016)
Book
Scholar, R., Kenny, N., & Williams, W. (Eds.). (2016). Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean. Legenda

This volume tracks a Montaigne ‘in transit’ all the way from the genesis and production of his Essais and travel journal in the 1570s–90s to their diffusion and reception from the 1580s up till the present day, in France, England, Germany, and elsewh... Read More about Montaigne in Transit: Essays in Honour of Ian Maclean.

Montaigne et la “vanité” des utopies (2016)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2016). Montaigne et la “vanité” des utopies. Revue de Synthèse, 137(3-4), 321-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11873-016-0305-7

This article examines Montaigne’s contribution to the sixteenth-century European debate about the utopia as a form of political thinking concerned with the creation of a better society. It argues that Montaigne participates in that debate, as he does... Read More about Montaigne et la “vanité” des utopies.

Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day (2015)
Book
Scholar, R., & Sansavior, E. (Eds.). (2015). Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day. Liverpool University Press

Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipe... Read More about Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day.

The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario (2015)
Book Chapter
Scholar, R. (2015). The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario. In E. Sansavior, & R. Scholar (Eds.), Caribbean Globalizations, 1492 to the Present Day (33-57). Liverpool University Press

Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipe... Read More about The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario.

De la dispute utopienne à la controverse religieuse: deux querelles signées Thomas More (2013)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2013). De la dispute utopienne à la controverse religieuse: deux querelles signées Thomas More. Littératures classiques (Toulouse), 81, 37-49. https://doi.org/10.3917/licla.081.0037

It is often assumed that a literary quarrel is constituted by a cluster of texts and takes place between those texts. But a quarrel can also take place within a single text. The utopian tradition is striking in this respect, for some of its major tex... Read More about De la dispute utopienne à la controverse religieuse: deux querelles signées Thomas More.

Epilogue: Co-operations (2013)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2013). Epilogue: Co-operations. Seventeenth-century French studies, 35(2 - Special issue Pascal’s Écrits sur la gràce), 179-86. https://doi.org/10.1179/0265106813z.00000000033

This response to the foregoing essays argues that the essays establish a useful critical distance from which to view the Écrits and that they do so by placing the text in a series of contexts: biographical, textual, doctrinal, sacramental, and instit... Read More about Epilogue: Co-operations.

Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking (2010)
Book
Scholar, R. (2010). Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking. Peter Lang Oxford

We know a great deal of what Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Shakespeare’s near-contemporary and fellow literary mastermind, thinks. We know, because he tells us on page after page of his Essais, which have marked literature and thought since the Euro... Read More about Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking.

Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800 (2010)
Book
Scholar, R., & Tadié, A. (Eds.). (2010). Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800. Ashgate Publishing

The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern Eu... Read More about Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800.

Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method (2009)
Book
Scholar, R., & Holland, A. (Eds.). (2009). Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method. Legenda

Terence Cave (1938-), English critic 1 other title Legenda (General Series) Legenda 23 December 2008 • 162pp ISBN: 978-1-905981-93-9 (hardback) • RRP £75, $99, €85 EnlightenmentFrenchFiction If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we ma... Read More about Pre-Histories and Afterlives: Studies in Critical Method.

Two Cheers for Free-Thinking (2006)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2006). Two Cheers for Free-Thinking. Paragraph, 29(Theory and the Early Modern), 40-53. https://doi.org/10.3366/prg.2006.0008

Alice au jardin d’enfants (2006)
Book
Pigeard de Gurbert, G., & Scholar, R. (2006). Alice au jardin d’enfants

The 'Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi' in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something (2005)
Book
Scholar, R. (2005). The 'Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi' in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something. Oxford University Press

What is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How - if at all - can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall... Read More about The 'Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi' in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something.

"Je Ne Sais Quelle Grâce": Esther before Assuérus (2003)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (2003). "Je Ne Sais Quelle Grâce": Esther before Assuérus. French Studies, 56, 317-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/56.3.317

Entretien avec Sacy sur la philosophie: extrait des Mémoires de Fontaine (2003)
Book
Pascal, B. (2003). Entretien avec Sacy sur la philosophie: extrait des Mémoires de Fontaine

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Case-Study in Translation? (1998)
Journal Article
Scholar, R. (1998). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Case-Study in Translation?. Translation and Literature, 7, 42-55

Qu’était-ce ? (1998)
Book
O'Brien, F., Pigeard de Gurbert, G., & Scholar, R. (1998). Qu’était-ce ?

L’Étrange Affaire du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde (1997)
Book
Pigeard de Gurbert, G., & Scholar, R. (1997). L’Étrange Affaire du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde