Marja van Tilburg

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marja van Tilburg is involved.

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van Tilburg, Marja 2024 Chapter 1. Cultural transfer in the French Enlightenment: Sexuality and gender in Bougainville’s and Diderot’s writings on Tahiti Travel Writing and Cultural Transfer, Broomans, Petra and Jeanette den Toonder (eds.), pp. 16–34 | Chapter

Over the last decade, scholars of the Enlightenment have shown how cultural critics all over Europe – fashioning themselves as philosophes – took inspiration from non-Western cultures. Articulating their criticism of contemporary European society, they drew comparisons with seemingly better… read more