Voltaire - (Significant Figures in World History) by Síofra Pierse (Hardcover)

About the Book

Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works offers an introduction to this unique 18th-century French author. The multifaceted Voltaire was a thinker, a rebel, a writer, an exile, and a campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day.

Book Synopsis

Voltaire: A Reference Guide To His Life and Works offers an introduction to this unique 18th-century French author. The multifaceted Voltaire was a thinker, a rebel, a writer, an exile, and a campaigner who became a transnational celebrity in his day.

Review Quotes

"With this attractive book, Pearse (Univ. College Dublin, Ireland) has delivered a major contribution to the publisher's "Significant Figures in World History" series ... Highly recommended. All readers." --CHOICE

About the Author

Síofra Pierse is head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCD Dublin. She specializes in 18th-century French literature and history of ideas. She is author of Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (2008), editor of The City in Eighteenth-Century French Writing (2004) and co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (with James Hanrahan 2014) and Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century francophone text (with Emma M. Dunne 2022). She enjoys working on 18th-century Francophone topics, particularly female writers and Voltaire.