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Candide by Voltaire

ISBN: 9780312148546 | 0312148542
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 9/15/1998

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhancesCandide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters ofCandide. A related documents... MORE
  Foreword
  Preface
    
PART I. INTRODUCTION: THE PARADOXES OF VOLTAIRE
    
  The Duality of Voltaire
  Voltaire and the Old Regime
    Absolute Monarchy
    Nobility
    Religion
    
  Candide
    The Unhappy Voltaire
    Voltaire agains... MORE
Daniel Gordon (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has also taught at Harvard University and Stanford University. He has served on the editorial staff of The Journal of the History of Ideas and Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. His publications, including Citizens without Sovereignty (1994), deal with the Enlightenment and the history of Enlightenment scholarship in the twentieth century.


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