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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1 The man of theatre
Making a name
Reforming tragedy
Theatrical fame
Voltaire as actor
2 The Epicurean poet
The quarrel about poetry
An epic poem
Libertine verse
Stances à Mme Du Châtelet
The Ancient versus the Modern
3 The Englishman
Voltaire learns English
Voltaire and the London world of publishing
The Letters on the English
Voltaire: Anglophile and Englishman
4 The scientist
The château de Cirey
The Newton wars
Voltaire the sceptic
Voltaire and the academies
5 The courtier
Aristocratic connections
Voltaire at the French court (1725, 1745–6)
Voltaire, Frederick, and Catherine
Voltaire as court historian
A world history
The eternal courtier
6 The Genevan
Voltaire in Geneva
The Lisbon earthquake
Voltaire’s fiction
Voltaire takes leave of Geneva
7 The campaigner
Malagrida: a public victim
The Calas affair
The Dictionnaire philosophique portatif
The invention of the ‘affair’
Public opinion
8 The celebrity
Ideas of Enlightenment
Public sphere
Print trade
Celebrity culture
9 The life and the afterlife
The French Revolution
The 19th century
Modern reactions
A chronology of Voltaire’s life and works
References
Further reading
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Index
Social Media
Online Catalogue
English Literature
Free Speech
German Literature
French Literature
Spanish Literature
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