Voltaire and the Century of Light /

Voltaire and the Century of Light / / Alfred Owen Aldridge.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Aldridge, Alfred Owen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1975
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1636
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Physical Description:1 online resource (458 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1. A Family and a Name, 1694-1713
  • 2. Love and Libertinage, 1713-1721
  • 3. The First Literary War, 1722
  • 4. The Miracle of La Henriade, 1723-1726
  • 5. A Frenchman Who Knows England Well, 1726-1729
  • 6. Further Echoes of England, 1729-1733
  • 7. Continued Persecution, 1733-1736
  • 8. The New Theseus and Ariadne, 1737-1739
  • 9. Face to Face with Frederick, 1739-1740
  • 10. Literature and Espionage, 1741-1743
  • 11. Court Poet and Historian, 1744-1747
  • 12. More Than It Seems To Say, 1748
  • 13. The Death of a Great Man, 1749
  • 14. From Paris to Potsdam, 1750
  • 15. A Voluntary Exile, 1751-1752
  • 16. A Double Book Burning, 1752-1753
  • 17. Poisonous Days, 1754-1755
  • 18. To Live in Tranquility, 1756-1757
  • 19. Toward Open Defiance, 1758-1759
  • 20. Candide: "A Mixture of Ridicule and Horror"
  • 21. Laugh and You Will Crush Them, 1760
  • 22. Skirmishes Literary and Otherwise, 1761
  • 23. The Avenging of Humanity, 1762
  • 24. Is This the Century of Enlightenment? 1763
  • 25. Visitors to Ferney, 1762-1765
  • 26. The Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
  • 27. Magistrate of Humanity, 1765-1766
  • 28. Latent Primitivism, 1767-1768
  • 29. Words and Whispers, 1769-1770
  • 30. Don Quixote of the Alps, 1771-1772
  • 31. Eulogies and Discourses, 1773-1774
  • 32. Shakespeare's Rival, 1775-1778
  • 33. Vindication, 1778 398
  • 34. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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