Voltaire: Select Bibliography


Andrews, Wayne. Voltaire. New York: New Directions, 1981.

Ayer, A. J. Voltaire .New York: Random House, 1986.

Barr, Mary-Margaret H., ed. A century of Voltaire study; a bibliography of writings on Voltaire, 1825-1925. New York: The Institute of French Studies, 1929.

Bottiglia, William F., ed.  Voltaire; a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Cutler, Maxine G. , ed. Voltaire, the Enlightenment, and the comic mode: essays in honor of Jean Sareil. New York: P. Lang, 1990.

Durant, Will, Durant, Ariel. The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with Special Emphasis on the Conflict between Religion and Philosophy, The Story of Civilization, Part IX. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.

Gay, Peter.  Voltaire's politics: the poet as realist.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Howells, R. J., et al. Voltaire and His World. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1985.

Lanson, Gustave. Voltaire. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons, 1960.

Nablow, Ralph Arthur. A Study of Voltaire's Lighter Verse, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Banbury: Voltaire Foundation, 1974.

Nicholis, Roderick.  “Voltaire and the Paradoxes of Fanaticism” Dalhousie Review Volume 82, Issue 3 (2002): 441-470 [Available online through Academic Search Premier]

Noyes, Alfred. Voltaire. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1936.

Pearson, Roger.  Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom London: Bloomsblury, 2005.

Smith, Martin, ed.  Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, Volumes 1-249. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1989.

Topazio, Virgil W. Voltaire: A Critical Study of His Major Works. New York: Random House, 1967.

Wade, Ira O., ed. Studies on Voltaire, with some unpublished papers of Mme. du Chatelet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947.

Werner, Stephen.  The comic philosophes: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade. Birmingham: Summa Publications, 2002.

 

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