The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire Hardback
Edited by Nicholas (University of Oxford) Cronk
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series
Hardback
Description
As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory.
The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales.
Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre.
Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking.
This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings.
The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources.
The essays demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2009
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- ISBN:9780521849739
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 6 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521849739
