La Nouvelle Héloïse: Some Bibliographical Problems
Jo-Ann E. McEachern, University of Western Ontario
Volume 1, no. 4, July 1989
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ABSTRACT
Since 1981 I have been working on a new bibliography of La Nouvelle Héloïse which will describe all editions of the novel that appeared between its initial publication in 1761 and 1800. In the course of visiting more than a hundred libraries and examining almost eight hundred copies of the novel in French (not to mention the translations, which themselves present interesting problems), I have become increasingly aware of the following points: first, the sheer inadequacy of the current state of Rousseau bibliography; second, the importance of studying as many copies as possible of each edition; and third, the significance of paying close attention to apparently minor details, which can teach us something on a broader scale about printing practices and publishing procedures in the eighteenth century.
Other ECF articles on the topic of “Bibliography” include:
The Empty Decade? English Fiction in the 1730s
by LACY MARSCHALK, MALLORY ANNE PORCH and PAULA R. BACKSCHEDIER (ECF 26.3, Spring 2014)
Clarissa Harlowe’s “Ode to Wisdom”: Composition, Publishing History, and the Semiotics of Printed Music
by THOMAS MCGEARY (ECF 24.3, Spring 2012)
Patterns of Marginality in French Prose Fiction, 1701–1800
by RICHARD L. FRAUTSCHI and ANGUS MARTIN (ECF 16.4, July 2004)
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