Candide, or, Optimism : the Robert M. Adams translation, backgrounds, criticism / Voltaire ; edited by Nicholas Cronk, University of Oxford.

Author: Voltaire, 1694-1778, author.

Edition Statement:Third edition.

ImprintNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Descriptionxiv, 265 pages ; 22 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265)

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