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SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century)
Sarah Benharrech
Comment déterminer l’individu? Par l’étude morphologique des personnages issus des écrits dramatiques, journalistiques et romanesques, S. Benharrech montre comment Marivaux modernise la notion de caractère.
Complete Works of Voltaire
The years 1774-1775 see Voltaire busying himself on a mixture of polemical, philosophical and historical texts, covering such themes as fatality, the nature of the soul, the dangers of atheism, and the slow march of history towards a better future. And Voltaire is also, as always, settling scores with his many enemies and detractors. The volume includes, among other works, the ‘contes’ Histoire de Jenni, ou le sage et l’athée, Les Oreilles du comte de Chesterfield and Eloge historique de la raison.
Correspondences
Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny, vol.14: 5 janvier 1754–31 décembre 1755, Lettres 2093–2303
‘Thanks to the rich annotation provided by the editors, [the correspondence is] an extraordinary mine of information […] This is a remarkable achievement in terms both of organisation and of the sustained excellence in the quality of the editing. No academic library should be without a copy of this fascinating correspondence, which is an essential document for anyone with an interest in eighteenth-century studies.’
C. P. Courtney, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2012)