Voltaire''s Correspondence - Digital Readings

This Element harnesses digital resources to unpack Voltaire's complex and prodigious correspondence for the modern reader.

List of contents

1. Beginnings; 2. Names; 3. Neologisms; 4. Quotations | French; 5. Quotations | Latin; 6. Futures.

Summary

This Element addresses how modern readers can understand the subtle and playful literary performances that constitute Voltaire's correspondence. Digital reading methods and resources enhance our understanding of this complex literary object and its relationship to Voltaire's more canonical literary output, and to the Enlightenment world at large.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Cronk, Nicholas (University of Oxford) Roe Cronk, Cronk Nicholas, Glenn Roe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108791724
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79172-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections; Elements in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; French, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800