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Voltaire's workshop : the sources of candide / Edward M. Langille.
- Format:
- 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.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780228024873
- 0228024870
- 9780228024880
- 0228024889
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