The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire

Nicholas Cronk (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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 oeuvre. 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.

• Curatore: Nicholas Cronk
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 410 gr.
• EAN: 9780521614955

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