TY - BOOK AU - Aldridge,Alfred Owen TI - Voltaire and the Century of Light T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9781400866953 AV - PQ2099 U1 - 848/.5/09 PY - 2015///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Authors, French KW - 18th century KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General KW - bisacsh KW - Age of Enlightenment KW - Anecdote KW - Atheism KW - Baron d'Holbach KW - Blaise Pascal KW - Candide KW - Causes of the French Revolution KW - Christianity KW - Confucius KW - Conyers Middleton KW - Curate KW - Deism KW - Democritus KW - Denis Diderot KW - Dictionnaire philosophique KW - Dieu KW - Doctor Akakia KW - Enfer KW - Erudition KW - Frederick the Great KW - Friedrich Nicolai KW - Horace Walpole KW - Immanuel Kant KW - Jacques Necker KW - Jansenism KW - Jean Calas KW - Jean-Jacques Rousseau KW - Jonathan Swift KW - Literature KW - Louis XV of France KW - Manichaeism KW - Mark Twain KW - Molière KW - Monsieur KW - Montesquieu KW - Newtonianism KW - On the Universe KW - Pangloss KW - Parlement KW - Parody KW - Persecution KW - Philosopher KW - Philosophes KW - Philosophy KW - Physiognomy KW - Picaresque novel KW - Poetry KW - Politique KW - Primitivism KW - Prose KW - Ridicule KW - Romanticism KW - Satire KW - Simplicissimus KW - Simplicius Simplicissimus KW - Society of Jesus KW - Sophocles KW - Sporus KW - Suetonius KW - Superiority (short story) KW - The Dunciad KW - The Philosopher KW - Tristia KW - Trivium KW - Valet KW - Victor Hugo KW - Voltaire KW - William Shakespeare KW - Writing KW - Zadig N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; 1. A Family and a Name, 1694-1713 --; 2. Love and Libertinage, 1713-1721 --; 3. The First Literary War, 1722 --; 4. The Miracle of La Henriade, 1723-1726 --; 5. A Frenchman Who Knows England Well, 1726-1729 --; 6. Further Echoes of England, 1729-1733 --; 7. Continued Persecution, 1733-1736 --; 8. The New Theseus and Ariadne, 1737-1739 --; 9. Face to Face with Frederick, 1739-1740 --; 10. Literature and Espionage, 1741-1743 --; 11. Court Poet and Historian, 1744-1747 --; 12. More Than It Seems To Say, 1748 --; 13. The Death of a Great Man, 1749 --; 14. From Paris to Potsdam, 1750 --; 15. A Voluntary Exile, 1751-1752 --; 16. A Double Book Burning, 1752-1753 --; 17. Poisonous Days, 1754-1755 --; 18. To Live in Tranquility, 1756-1757 --; 19. Toward Open Defiance, 1758-1759 --; 20. Candide: "A Mixture of Ridicule and Horror" --; 21. Laugh and You Will Crush Them, 1760 --; 22. Skirmishes Literary and Otherwise, 1761 --; 23. The Avenging of Humanity, 1762 --; 24. Is This the Century of Enlightenment? 1763 --; 25. Visitors to Ferney, 1762-1765 --; 26. The Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 --; 27. Magistrate of Humanity, 1765-1766 --; 28. Latent Primitivism, 1767-1768 --; 29. Words and Whispers, 1769-1770 --; 30. Don Quixote of the Alps, 1771-1772 --; 31. Eulogies and Discourses, 1773-1774 --; 32. Shakespeare's Rival, 1775-1778 --; 33. Vindication, 1778 398 --; 34. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access N2 - Taking an approach different from (hat of earlier biographers, A. Owen Aldridge examines Voltaire's literary and intellectual career chronologically, using the methods both of comparative literature and of the history of ideas. The resulting biography portrays a fascinating personality as well as a great writer and thinker. Voltaire is revealed not only through his correspondence, here extensively "ed, but through the statements others made about him in anecdotes, memoirs, and other contemporary documents. New information is introduced regarding Voltaire's sojourn in England, his later relations with English men of letters, his domestic turmoils at the court of Frederick the Great, and his contact with French contemporaries such as Montesquieu and Diderot. For the first time in any biography, attention is given to Voltaire's extensive knowledge of Spanish literature and its influence on his own work, particularly Candide. Voltaire is portrayed as a conscious participant in the Enlightenment. In his early years he was interested primarily in aesthetics and abstract philosophy; later, he passionately dedicated himself to humanitarian causes with ideological implications. Professor Aldridge brings forward evidence pointing to the contrast between these two periods in Voltaire's life.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866953 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400866953 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400866953/original ER -