Voltaire - A Reference Guide to His Life and Works

Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works offers an introduction to this unique 18th-century French author. The multifaceted Voltaire was a thinker, a rebel, a writer, an exile, and a campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day.

About the author

Síofra Pierse is head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCD Dublin. She specializes in 18th-century French literature and history of ideas. She is author of Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (2008), editor of The City in Eighteenth-Century French Writing (2004) and co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (with James Hanrahan 2014) and Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century francophone text (with Emma M. Dunne 2022). She enjoys working on 18th-century Francophone topics, particularly female writers and Voltaire.

Product details

• Authors: Sfofra Pierse, Siofra Pierse, Síofra Pierse
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781538141762
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4176-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Significant Figures in World History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Eastern Europe, PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern