Voltaire: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works (Significant Figures in World History) - Hardcover

Pierse, Síofra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1538141760 ISBN 13: 9781538141762

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538141760
• ISBN 13: 9781538141762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248