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Ce volume contient les articles que Voltaire redigea pour
l'Encyclopedie, ainsi que ceux pour la quatrieme edition du
Dictionnaire de l'Academie (1762).
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
1739-1741 were stressful but highly creative years for Voltaire,
his output ranging from science to polemic, from politics to
poetry. Scientific research remains at the forefront, with Voltaire
championing Newton's theories despite the opposition of the
scientific establishment. Voltaire was in this period anxious to
consolidate his reputation, and his continuing reflections on the
nature of a literary career led to the publication of both his
personalised "Memoire du sieur de Voltaire" and more general
reflections on literary quarrels in "Memoire sur le satire". Public
quarrels had become an integral part of the 'Republic of Letters'
and Voltaire's disillusionment is clear in "Lettres sur les
inconvenients attaches a la litterature". His verse ranges from
crude satire to some of his most touching lyric poetry in the
"Stances a Madame Du Chatelet". Altogether, this collection brings
together the complex and contrasting works of a complex and
flexible writer.
Voltaire's satirical epic "La Pucelle" was one of the most
contentious works of his career, and was outlawed, burned and
banned for much of the following two centuries. His trenchant
criticism of superstition finds its full expression in this poem,
which retells the story of France's heroine Joan of Arc from an
irreverent, ribald point of view. In fact there are two poems: the
early pirated copy that was widely distributed, having been spiced
up and supplemented by its unauthorised editors, and Voltaire's
later official version, considerably toned-down. This edition is
among the first to present these two texts in their entirety,
without trying to create a composite. The complicated history of
"La Pucelle"'s composition, its various editions and its lasting
influence are here related in full, alongside the full texts of
both 'poems', allowing readers to judge the still-controversial
masterpiece for themselves.
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