E. Gibbon et les Mémoires littéraires de la Grande-Bretagne : contextes d'un projet de périodique et raisons d'un échec
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2004
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Robert Mankin, « E. Gibbon et les Mémoires littéraires de la Grande-Bretagne : contextes d'un projet de périodique et raisons d'un échec », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.2004.2631
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This essay considers the early literary projects of Edward Gibbon, and particularly the journalistic project he undertook with his friend Georges Deyver-dun in 1766-1767. For two annual issues, they wrote and published a French-language journal in London to inform continental readers about significant deve¬ lopments in British culture. With roots in the Huguenot republic of letters, and ambitions regarding France as well ; with articles on figures as various and important as Boswell, Adam Ferguson, Sterne and Walpole among others, plus an original contribution from Hume, the journal should have been a success. This essay analyses some of the reasons for its failure, and also examines the Mémoires Littéraires as part of the legacy of the dispute between Hume and Rousseau. The journal's role in Gibbon's future career as an historian is also discussed.