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Description: Further DetailsTitle: Voltaire and the 1760sCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays for John RenwickEAN: 9780729409490ISBN: 9780729409490Publisher: Voltaire FoundationFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/15/2008Description: The 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 early 1760s. By the end of the decade, the philosophes were dominant in key literary institutions such as the Comédie-Française and the Académie française, and their enlightened programme became more widely accepted.Many of the essays in this volume focus on Voltaire, revealing him as a writer of fiction and polemic who, during this period, became increasingly interested in questions of justice and jurisprudence. Other essays examine the literary activities of Voltaire’s contemporaries, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chamfort, Rétif, Sedaine and Marmontel.It is no exaggeration to describe the 1760s as Voltaire’s decade. It is he more than any other author who set the agenda and held the public’s attention during this seminal period for the development of Enlightenment ideas and values. Voltaire’s dominance of the 1760s can be summed up in a single phrase: it is in these years that he became the ‘patriarch of Ferney’.Language: FrenchCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Nicholas Cronk (Edited by)Author: Nicholas CronkGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Society & Culture, Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Oxford University Studies in the EnlightenmentRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Voltaire and the 1760s

Title: Voltaire and the 1760s

Subtitle: Essays for John Renwick

EAN: 9780729409490

ISBN: 9780729409490

Release Date: 10/15/2008

Release Year: 2008

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Contributor: Nicholas Cronk (Edited by)

Genre: Literary Criticism

Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality

Number of Pages: 308 Pages

Publication Name: Voltaire and the 1760s : Essays for John Renwick

Language: Eng,Fre

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Publication Year: 2008

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: European / French, Europe / France, Poetry

Item Weight: 12.3 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9.8 in

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History

Author: Nicholas Cronk

Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser.

Item Width: 8.6 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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