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Voltaire: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

Voltaire: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

Pierse, Síofra

Hardcover

Series: Significant Figures in World History

PhilosophyLiterary FiguresFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1538141760
ISBN13: 9781538141762
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Nov 5 2024
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works French author. This Guide offers 21st-century readers a glimpse into the multifaceted Voltaire: the thinker, rebel, writer, exile, and campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day. A wide-ranging Introduction situates the prolific author from the perspective of 21st-century readers and critics, both for those new to Voltaire and for those already familiar with his life and works. A Chronology gives a detailed sense of how incredibly active and well-networked the writer was throughout his remarkable 84-year-long life. A Bibliography provides further insight into the sheer enormity and versatility of his writings, whether published, private, literary, philosophical, or personal, with emphasis on the most recent critical works in a long tradition of Voltairean reception and criticism. The extensive main A-Z Encyclopedia section includes hundreds of entries relating to Voltaire's life, friends, lovers, enemies, exiles, critics, works, theater, poetry, finances, polemics, history, travels, ideas, campaigns, disputes, legacy, posterity and more. As a writer with a towering personality, this Guide shows how the indefatigable Voltaire exercised his quill to put his unique stamp on the vast, flawed 18th-century world around him.

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