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Candide or, Optimism : the Robert M. Adams translation, backgrounds, criticism / Voltaire ; edited by Nicholas Cronk.
- Title
- Candide or, Optimism : the Robert M. Adams translation, backgrounds, criticism / Voltaire ; edited by Nicholas Cronk.
- Author
- Voltaire, 1694-1778
- Publication
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
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- Description
- xiv, 265 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Seven critical essays -- five of them new to this edition-- representing a wide range of approaches to Candide, intended to deepen the reader's response to the work."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Candide. English
- Norton critical edition.
- Alternative Title
- Candide.
- Optimism
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Preface to the second edtion -- The text of Candide, or optimism -- Appendix: Letter on the subject of Candide / Voltaire -- Backgrounds -- Voltaire's grin / Richard Holmes -- Voltaire's garden : The philosopher as a campaigner for human rights / Adam Gopnik -- The question of optimism / W.H. Barber -- Candide and the philosophy of the garden / Dennis Fletcher -- Gestation: Candide assembling itself / Haydn Mason -- The Voltairean genre of the Conte Philosophique: Does it exsits? / Nicholas Cronk -- Criticism -- The quality of Candide / J. G. Weightman -- Does Candide learn? Genre, discourse, and satire in Candide / Robin Howells -- Romance conventions in Voltaire's Candide / James J. Lynch -- Holding the mirror up to fiction: generic parody in Candide / Philip Stewart -- Voltaire's style: tone, pace, insinuation / Erich Auerbach -- On Candid'e philosophical style / Jean Starobinski -- The status of fiction in Voltaire's Contes / Jack Undank.
- ISBN
- 9780393932522
- 0393932524
- LCCN
- ^^2015050883
- OCLC
- 914228230
- SCSB-12691387
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library