Voltaire and the 1760s (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
308
Utgivningsdatum
2008-10-15
Förlag
Voltaire Foundation
Medarbetare
Cronk, Nicholas (ed.)
Illustrationer
4 illustrations
Volymtitel
SVEC 2008:10
Antal komponenter
1
ISSN
0435-2866
ISBN
9780729409490

Voltaire and the 1760s

Essays for John Renwick

Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-10-15
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The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late 1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in the early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the philosophes were dominant in key literary institutions such as the Comdie-Franaise and the Acadmie franaise, and their enlightened programme became more widely accepted. Many of the essays in this volume focus on Voltaire, revealing him as a writer of fiction and polemic who, during this period, became increasingly interested in questions of justice and jurisprudence. Other essays examine the literary activities of Voltaires contemporaries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chamfort, Rtif, Sedaine and Marmontel. It is no exaggeration to describe the 1760s as Voltaires decade. It is he more than any other author who set the agenda and held the publics attention during this seminal period for the development of Enlightenment ideas and values. Voltaires dominance of the 1760s can be summed up in a single phrase: it is in these years that he became the patriarch of Ferney.
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Nicholas Cronk is Professor of European Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Voltaire Foundation. As general editor of the uvres compltes de Voltaire, he has overseen the completion of the print edition in 205 volumes, and he is now directing the creation of Voltaire Online, the first definitive digital edition.

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Peter France, John Renwick: a tribute Publications of John Renwick Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire and the 1760s: the rule of the patriarch I. Voltaires contemporaries Jean Ehrard, Tempte dans un gobelet: esquisse de mmoire en dfense de M. Ozy, apothicaire auvergnat du dix-huitime sicle David Adams, Illustration and interpretation: the frontispiece to Marmontels Blisaire Michael Cardy, Some references to English writers in Marmontels Potique franaise (1763) Katherine Astbury, The success of Marmontels moral tales on the French stage 1760-1770 David McCallam, Physiocrats and barbarians: moral economies in Chamforts comedies John Dunkley, Sedaines Maillard: the gauntlet, the calque and the seneschals revenge Cecil Courtney, Constant dHermenches: correspondent of Voltaire and Belle de Zuylen Christopher Todd, Glimpses of France and the French (1760-1769) in three English provincial newspapers David Coward, Je deviens auteur: Restif in the 1760s Graham Gargett, Caveirac, Protestants and the presence of Voltairean discourse in late-eighteenth-century France Katharine Swarbrick, Voltaire, Rousseau and the uses of frivolity II. Voltaire James Hanrahan, Creating the cri public: Voltaire and public opinion in the early 1760s Russell Goulbourne, Voltaire and the Calas affair in England Christiane Mervaud, Voltaire et le Beccaria de Grenoble: Michel-Joseph-Antoine Servan Olivier Ferret, Les stratgies ditoriales des Mlanges voltairiens Nicholas Cronk, Le Philosophe ignorant, volume de mlanges Simon Davies, Le Pyrrhonisme de lhistoire, Voltaires anthology of contes Richard Francis, The Ingnus children Jonathan Mallinson, Les Lettres dAmabed: rewriting Graffignys Lettres dune Pruvienne? Adrienne Mason, Unheard voices: two English translations of Voltaires LIngnu David Williams, Voltaire and Thomas Otway Haydn Mason, Voltaire, directeur de conscience: his correspondence with Mme Du Deffand Peter France, Last words Index