An American Voltaire
Subtitle: essays in memory of J. Patrick Lee
By: edited by E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells.
Contributors: Lee, J. Patrick 1942-2006.; Johnson, E. Joe; Wells, Byron R.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781443801423
Subjects: Voltaire, -- 1694-1778 -- Appreciation; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes two papers in French.
Table of contents: title: A new genre : l'Opéra moral, moral opera in eighteenth-century France / Theodore E. D. Braun; title: Voltaire and the uses of censorship : The example of the Lettres philosophiques / Nicholas Cronk; title: Enlightenment intertextuality : The case of heraldry in the Encyclopédie méthodique / Kathleen Hardesty Doig; title: Sex as satire in Voltaire's fiction / William F. Edmiston; title: Violence, levity, and the dictionary in old regime France : Chaudon's Dictionnaire anti-philosophique / David Eick; title: L'abbé, l'amazone, le bon roi et les frelons / Olivier Ferret; title: Greuze's Self-portraits : Figures of artistic identity / Bernadette Fort; title: From forest to field : Sylvan Elegists of eighteenth-century France / Walter Gershuny; title: The falsification of Voltaire's letters and the public persona of the author : From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776) / John R. Iverson; title: The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765) / E. Joe Johnson; title: John Law and the rhetoric of calculation / Thomas M. Kavanagh; title: "Le Roi de Bulgares" : was Voltaire's satire on Frederick the Great just too opaque? / E.M. Langille; title: Voltaire and the voyage to Rome / John D. Leigh; title: Textual liaisons : Voltaire, Paméla and Don Quixote / Jonathan Mallinson; title: Les petits livres du grande homme : polémique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire / Ourida Mostefai; title: Sentimental horror : englightenment tragedy and the rise of the genre terrible / James Steintrager; title: Voltaire and the comic genre : polemics and rhetoric / Byron R. Wells.