Voltaire - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Beck, Ervin. “Voltaire's Candide.” Explicator 57, no. 4 (1999): 203-04.
Discusses the role of Cacambo in Candide as a type of golden mean.
Carlson, Marvin. Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998, 186 p.
Gives a history of Voltaire's theatrical career (1694-1791), particularly as it illuminates the eighteenth-century theatrical culture in France.
Dawson, Deirdre. Voltaire's Correspondence: An Epistolary Novel. New York: Peter Lang, 1994, 189 p.
Approaches Voltaire's letters as a form of literature, focusing on his correspondence with Mme Denis, the Tronchin family, and d'Alembert.
Howells, Robin. Disabled Powers: A Reading of Voltaire's Contes. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993, 192 p.
Applies Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque to the contes, and describes a...
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