Les oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Tome 20A, Oeuvres de 1739-1741 (Complete Works of Voltaire) - Hardcover

Voltaire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0729407535 ISBN 13: 9780729407533

Verlag: Voltaire Foundation, 2003

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1739-1741 were stressful but highly creative years for Voltaire, his output ranging from science to polemic, from politics to poetry. Scientific research remains at the forefront, with Voltaire championing Newton’s theories despite the opposition of the scientific establishment. Voltaire was in this period anxious to consolidate his reputation, and his continuing reflections on the nature of a literary career led to the publication of both his personalised "Mémoire du sieur de Voltaire" and more general reflections on literary quarrels in "Mémoire sur le satire". Public quarrels had become an integral part of the ‘Republic of Letters’ and Voltaire’s disillusionment is clear in "Lettres sur les inconvénients attachés à la littérature". His verse ranges from crude satire to some of his most touching lyric poetry in the "Stances à Madame Du Châtelet". Altogether, this collection brings together the complex and contrasting works of a complex and flexible writer.

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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 OEuvres complètes 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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• Verlag: Voltaire Foundation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Französisch
• ISBN 10: 0729407535
• ISBN 13: 9780729407533
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 653
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