Voltaire and the Century of Light
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Age of Enlightenment
Anecdote
Atheism
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Baron d'Holbach
Blaise Pascal
Candide
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Causes of the French Revolution
Christianity
Confucius
Conyers Middleton
Curate
Deism
Democritus
Denis Diderot
Dictionnaire philosophique
Dieu
Doctor Akakia
Enfer
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Erudition
Frederick the Great
Friedrich Nicolai
Horace Walpole
Immanuel Kant
Jacques Necker
Jansenism
Jean Calas
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jonathan Swift
Literature
Louis XV of France
Manichaeism
Mark Twain
Moliere
Monsieur
Montesquieu
Newtonianism
On the Universe
Pangloss
Parlement
Parody
Persecution
Philosopher
Philosophes
Philosophy
Physiognomy
Picaresque novel
Poetry
Politique
Primitivism
Prose
Ridicule
Romanticism
Satire
Simplicissimus
Simplicius Simplicissimus
Society of Jesus
Sophocles
Sporus
Suetonius
Superiority (short story)
The Dunciad
The Philosopher
Tristia
Trivium
Valet
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
William Shakespeare
Writing
Zadig
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- ISBN 9780691617602
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively quoted, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications.
Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
