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L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk Gillian Pink 9781835537626
Booksplease Price: £129.30L'Ecriture est la peinture de la voix honours and celebrates the inestimable contributions that Professor Nicholas Cronk has made to our understanding of the Enlightenment. As director of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire by Nicholas Cronk 9780521614955
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales... -
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire by Nicholas Cronk 9780521849739
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales... -
Voltaire's Correspondence: Digital Readings by Nicholas Cronk 9781108791724
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' - but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses... -
Voltaire and the 1760s: Essays for John Renwick by Nicholas Cronk 9780729409490
Booksplease Price: £97.93The 1760s was a pivotal decade for the philosophes. In the late 1750s their cause had been at a low ebb, but it was transformed in the eyes of public opinion by such events as the Calas affair in the... -
Candide by Voltaire 9780393932522
Booksplease Price: £16.21The novella has never been out of print and has been translated into every conceivable language. The text of this Norton Critical Edition remains that of Robert M. Adams's superlative translation,... -
A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical... -
Reinventing Voltaire: The Politics of Commemoration in Nineteenth-century France by Stephen Bird 9780729407427
Booksplease Price: £97.93How was Voltaire's legacy seen in France between 1830 and 1900? To what extent did the nineteenth century reinvent Voltaire? Viewed during these years through the distorting lens of the French... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.85Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's... -
The Great Protector of Wits: Baron d'Holbach and His Time by Laura Nicolì 9789004435780
Booksplease Price: £123.64The Great Protector of Wits provides a new assessment of baron d'Holbach (1723-1789) and his circle. A challenging figure of the European Enlightenment, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach was not only a... -
The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin by Anne L. Birberick 9789042014497
Booksplease Price: £81.82In The Shape of Change, Anne L. Birberick and Russell Ganim bring together essays by fourteen established scholars who dedicate their studies to David Rubin as they explore the ways in which artistic... -
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 9780199539239
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.33`Tonight When I make my sweeping bow at heaven's gate, One thing I shall still possess, at any rate, Unscathed, something outlasting mortal flesh, And that is ... My panache.' The first English... -
The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment by Daniel Brewer 9781107626140
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76The Enlightenment has long been seen as synonymous with the beginnings of modern Western intellectual and political culture. As a set of ideas and a social movement, this historical moment, the 'age... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.23An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies by Simon Burrows
Booksplease Price: £97.93Digitizing Enlightenment explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured projects are some of the best known, well-funded and... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history...