(Ebook) The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Nicholas Cronk ISBN 9780521614955, 9780521849739, 0521614953, 052184973X

(Ebook) The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Nicholas Cronk ISBN 9780521614955, 9780521849739, 0521614953, 052184973X

As 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. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire ?uvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and turned his name into a brand for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, fiction, pamphlets, correspondence, biblical criticism, and historical, political and philosophical thought, to give a wide-ranging view of his writings. The most comprehensive book on Voltaire available in English, it makes accessible the most recent research in France as well as the English-speaking world, in a series of original essays and a guide to sources. The essays demonstrate why Voltaire remains an essential point of reference in defining the modern intellectual today.