Edward Langille

Professor of French language and literature at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Canada, Edward Langille trained in medieval philology under the supervision of Professor Jean Dufournet at Paris III. His interest in French literature has consequently been wide-ranging. He has written on the prose writings of the Middle Ages, namely the crusader chronicles inspired by William of Tyre and travel narratives in Old French. He has also maintained a scholarly interest in literary history and the importance of historic translations. In 2013 he published La Place’s adaptation of Fielding’s Tom Jones. For more than twenty years he has extensively researched Voltaire and his circle, publishing two spurious sequels to Voltaire’s Candide: Dulaurens’ Candide seconde partie (Exeter Textes Littéraires, 2003), and Thorel de Campigneul’s Candide en Dannemarc (Durham Modern Language Series, 2007). In addition, he has published a critical edition of Fougeret de Monbron’s Le Cosmopolite (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2010) and a translation of his Margot la ravaudeuse (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015). Recent books include The Quotable Voltaire and Voltaire’s Workshop. At present he is busy cataloguing Voltaire’s correspondence unknown to Besterman.