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Born in the final years of the seventeenth century, and dying a decade before the beginning of the French Revolution, Voltaire was a quintessential figure of th

The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 pee

This study of Voltaire's theater points out the dramaturgical elements of situations, character types, theme and technique. Their specification and categorizati

In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, th

An accessible overview of the life, times and work of the eighteenth-century philosopher and writer.