Hugh M Davidson

Biographic Data

ID1063488
NAMEHugh M Davidson
GIVEN NAMESHugh M
FAMILY NAMEDavidson
SIGNATUREDAVIDSON H M
ORCID0009-0004-5447-2801
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX0

  • The rhetorical ideal in France

    Open AccessHugh M DavidsonCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of Literary…1999

    In seventeenth-century France the evolution of rhetoric and the ideal based on it are, at first, strongly influenced by earlier developments in Italian humanism and by Jesuit theories and pedagogy. But it is important to note that interest in the ars bene dicendi comes to a head in a clearly visible way and takes on peculiar force in the fourth decade of the century, with the founding in 1635 of the French Academy. External conditions were favour…

  • Disciplinary Options and the Discussion of Literature in Seventeenth-Century France

    Hugh M DavidsonARTICLENew Literary History1986

    AS IS KNOWN, the seventeenth century in France is a period rich both in the production and in the discussion of literature. Here I wish to offer some reflections on the latter, as seen from the point of view of the disciplines to which appeal is made, sometimes openly, though not always. If we study seventeenth-century approaches and attitudes in this way, we see-or hear-a complex and lively intellectual counterpoint, made up of lines of thought …

  • Reply to Marc Chenetier's Comments

    Hugh M DavidsonARTICLENew Literary History1986

    I WISH TO thank Marc Chenetier for his amusing and stimulating comments on my paper. They give me an opportunity to clarify some important points that may seem obscure and abstract in my argument, which is a condensed version of a longer account. In the first place, I agree with him that century divisions are artificial (though they are hard to avoid entirely). In my paper I purposely left out definite chronological boundaries, and I concentrated…

  • The Origins of Certainty

    Richard H Popkin, Hugh M DavidsonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1980

  • The Origins of Certainty

    Kathryn Hoffmann, Hugh M DavidsonARTICLEModern Language Notes1980

  • Book Making in Diderot's Encyclopedie

    Hugh M Davidson, G G BarberARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1975

  • Les Provinciales

    Hugh M Davidson, Pascal Pascal et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1968

  • Audience, Words, and Art

    E T Dubois, Eric Dubois et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1967

    (print) x, 189 p. ; 24 cm

  • Men and Masks

    Hugh M Davidson, Lionel GossmanARTICLEModern Language Notes1965