The Cambridge companion to Voltaire / / [edited by] Nicholas Cronk [[electronic resource]]
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| Titolo: |
The Cambridge companion to Voltaire / / [edited by] Nicholas Cronk [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 848/.509 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CronkNicholas |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The making of a name : a life of Voltaire / Geoffrey Turnovsky -- Voltaire and authorship / Nicholas Cronk -- Voltaire : philosopher or philosophe? / David Beeson and Nicholas Cronk -- Voltaire and clandestine manuscripts / Miguel Benítez -- Voltaire and the myth of England / John Leigh -- Voltaire's masks : theatre and theatricality / Russell Goulbourne -- Voltaire as story-teller / Gianni Iotti -- Candide / Philip Stewart -- Voltaire and history / Catherine Volpilhac-Auger -- Voltaire's correspondence / Christiane Mervaud -- Voltaire : pamphlets and polemic / Olivier Ferret -- Voltaire and the politics of toleration / John Renwick -- Voltaire and the Bible / Graham Gargett -- The Voltaire effect / Daniel Brewer. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cambridge companion to Voltaire |
| ISBN: | 1-139-80123-6 |
| 1-139-00235-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996201149603316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Cambridge companions to literature.