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Voltaire's workshop : the sources of candide / Edward M. Langille.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Langille, Edward M., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Workshops (Adult education).
Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]
Summary:
Voltaire's Workshop argues that the French translation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, by Pierre-Antoine de La Place, was the single most important source for Voltaire's Candide.
Contents:
Voltaire's Workshop: The Sources of Candide
Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Tom Jones and L'Enfant trouvé: LOST IN TRANSLATION?
TOM JONES AND L'ENFANT TROUVÉ: TRANSLATION OR TRAVESTY?
TRADUTTORE, TRADITORE!
PIERRE-ANTOINE DE LA PLACE
LA PLACE AND SHAKESPEARE
VOLTAIRE AND ANGLOMANIA
L'ENFANT TROUVÉ (1749-1800)
2 Life Imitates Art: VOLTAIRE AND TOM JONES
"NATURE'S UNBOUNDED SON": FOUNDLINGS AND BASTARDS
VOLTAIRE AND ROCHEBRUNE
ARMAND AROUET AND MASTER BLIFIL
ATTACKED IN THE STREET: ROHAN, NORTHERTON, FITZPATRICK, AND FELLAMAR
FIELDING'S OLD MAN OF THE HILL, VOLTAIRE, AND "L'AUBE SUR LE JURA"
3 Voltaire, the "Great Copyist": ZADIG (1747)
THE HERMIT
THE DOG AND THE HORSE
4 The Fascinating Irritation of Sentimental Romance: NANINE (1747) AND PAMÉLA (1753-54)
NANINE OU LE PRÉJUGÉ VAINCU (1743)
PAMÉLA
5 L'Enfant trouvé and the Language of Candide
6 Coming Up with a Name: CANDIDE
CLAUDE-PIERRE PATU
L'ENFANT TROUVÉ
ADMIRAL BYNG
CHARLES CALVERT, BARON BALTIMORE
7 From Somerset to Westphalia: THE CREATION OF CANDIDE'S LIEU FOUDATEUR
PARADISE HALL AND THE CHÂTEAU DE THUNDER-TEN-TRONCKH
SQUIRE WESTERN AND THE BARON DE THUNDER-TEN-TRONCKH
MRS WESTERN, THE BARONESS, AND CANDIDE'S MOTHER
WESTERN: THE "THUNDERING" SQUIRE
FAINTING, A SLAP, AND A KICK UP THE BACKSIDE
A COLD AND HEARTLESS WORLD
8 Maître Pangloss
NOËL-ANTOINE PLUCHE
THE PHILOSOPHER SQUARE
PARSON ADAMS
NEWS FROM THE DEAD
9 Candide and Cunégonde: THE ASSAULT ON ROMANCE
CUNÉGONDE
THE CREATION OF CUNÉGONDE
THE CREATION OF CANDIDE
A QUAKER, A PREACHER, AND AN ANABAPTIST
APPRENTISSAGE MILITAIRE: CANDIDE'S SATIRE ON WAR.
10 Narrative and Structure: TOM JONES IN SOUTH AMERICA
LA VIEILLE AND LE VIEUX DE LA MONTAGNE
THE LAND OF THE OREILLONS
CACAMBO
ELDORADO
LEAVING ELDORADO: LA PLACE AND SURINAM
CANDIDE'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS
11 Fougeret de Monbron and Sarah Fielding
LE COSMOPOLITE
LE PHILOSOPHE MARTIN
MONBRON AND VOLTAIRE
LE COSMOPOLITE AND CANDIDE
THE PARIS CHAPTER: LE COSMOPOLITE AND L'ENFANT TROUVÉ
LA VIE DE DAVID SIMPLE
12 England, Venice, and Constantinople
ENGLAND
VENICE AT CARNIVAL TIME
CONSTANTINOPLE
PAQUETTE: MARGOT, MOLLY, AND JENNY
PAQUETTE AND MARGOT
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:
9780228024873
0228024870
9780228024880
0228024889

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