dc.contributor.editor | Robert Clarke | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-28T11:22:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-28T11:22:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2022 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Clarke, R., Voltaire: Précis du siècle de Louis XV, In Hanrahan, J. and Godden, J. (eds.) The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.5.2.04, Online, The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, 2022 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/97978 | |
dc.description.abstract | Voltaire’s Précis du siècle de Louis XV is not as well known as it should be for a number of reasons. First, in historiographical terms, Enlightenment history has never recovered from the rise of historicism and its critique of that era’s presentism and universalist pretensions (Volpihlac-Auger, 2009; Force, 2009). Second, the reign of Louis XV – great-grandson of Louis-le-Grand – has been forgotten somewhat in the history of the French eighteenth century, which is generally viewed as the age of the philosophes and a prelude to the French Revolution (Jones, 2002). Third, and most importantly, Voltaire’s history of the age of Louis XV was not a work that he planned and composed in a coherent way, but instead emerged from the development of other works, an outgrowth of the Siècle de Louis XIV [Age of Louis XIV] intended to complete the Essai sur l’histoire générale de Charlemagne jusqu’à nos jours [Essay on General History from Charlemagne to our Times], but which relied on the filleting of Voltaire’s own Histoire de la guerre de 1741 [History of the War of 1741] (see article on this work in The Literary Encyclopedia) in order for it to be published as a work in its own right. As a result, it was little-known and under-appreciated by his contemporaries when it first appeared under its own title in 1769, thereby ensuring it was never considered a major work either before or after Voltaire’s death. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | The Literary Dictionary Company Limited | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Y; | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 1.5.2.04; | |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.title | Voltaire: Précis du siècle de Louis XV | en |
dc.title.alternative | The Literary Encyclopedia | en |
dc.type | Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/hanrahaj | |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 237598 | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.subject.TCDTheme | Manuscript, Book and Print Cultures | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | Enlightenment | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | European History | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | Francophone historiography | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | French monarchy | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | French thought | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | Historiography | en |
dc.subject.TCDTag | Voltaire | en |
dc.identifier.rssuri | https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21520 | |
dc.identifier.orcid_id | 0000-0001-9391-5039 | |
dc.subject.darat_thematic | History | en |
dc.status.accessible | N | en |
dc.rights.restrictedAccess | Y | |
dc.date.restrictedAccessEndDate | 2022 | |