An American Voltaire : essays in memory of J. Patrick Lee / edited by E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, E. Joe (Edward Joe)

Wells, Byron R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life.

France--Intellectual life--18th century.

France.

Voltaire, 1694-1778--Appreciation.

Voltaire.

Lee, J. Patrick (Joseph Patrick), 1942-2006.

Lee, J. Patrick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies. Essay titles include: "A New Genre: l'Opéra moral / Moral Opera in Eighteenth-Century France," "Voltaire and the Uses of Censorship: The Example of the Lettres Philosophiques," "Enlightenment Intertextuality:...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-4367-9

OCLC:

823721188