Voltaire's Correspondence

Digital Readings
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-79172-4
Verlag: European Community

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

Voltaire's correspondence has been described as his 'greatest masterpiece' – but if it is, it is also his least studied. One of the most prodigious correspondences in Western literature, it poses significant interpretative challenges to the critic and reader alike. Considered individually, the letters present a series of complex, subtle, and playful literary performances; taken together, they constitute a formidable, and even forbidding, ensemble. How can modern readers even attempt to understand such an imposing work? This Element addresses this question through the use of digital reading methods and resources that enhance our understanding of this complex literary object and its relationship to Voltaire's more canonical literary output, and indeed to the Enlightenment world at large. Nicholas Cronk and Glenn Roe provide scholars and students with new pathways into this particular corpus, using tools and approaches that can then be applied to correspondences and life-writing texts in all languages and periods.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronk, Nicholas

Roe, Glenn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Beginnings; 2. Names; 3. Neologisms; 4. Quotations French; 5. Quotations Latin; 6. Futures.