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DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL.\n\nPLEASE EMAIL roaar.library [at] mcgi
 ll.ca TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITING LIST.\n\n---\n\nVoltaire was a hugely pro
 lific writer of short prose works. René Pomeau\, in a rare bon mot\, write
 s that Voltaire is ‘interminably brief’. Scholars don’t quite know what to
  do with this vast part of Voltaire’s œuvre  and they remain little studie
 d. In the late eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century editors b
 undled these works together in volumes called ‘Mélanges’.\n\nIn fact\, Vol
 taire collected and arranged his shorter texts in volumes of his own const
 ruction\, and it is these miscellanies that pose many questions: \n\n- Are
  they thematically unified? \n\n- How and why do they mix old and new work
 s? \n\n- How are the individual works signed\, if they are? \n\nThe miscel
 lanies are pivotal works for understanding Voltairean polemic\, and they c
 onstitute an intrinsic part of his innovative authorial posture.\n\nTalk g
 iven by Professor Nicholas Cronk\, M.A.\, D.Phil.\, Chevalier des Arts et 
 des Lettres\, Officier dans l’ordre des Palmes académiques\, Oxford Univer
 sity\n\nLight reception to follow.\n\n \n\n\nPresented by Rare and Special
  Collections\, Osler\, Art\, and Archives (ROAAr).\n\nThis event is suppor
 ted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.\n\n
 \nNicholas Cronk is the Director of the Voltaire Foundation\, Professor of
  French Literature\, and Lecturer in the History of the Book\; Fellow of S
 t Edmund Hall at Oxford University. Cronk is Chercheur associé à l’ITEM (C
 NRS/ENS)\, Pôle «Ecritures des Lumières»\, Président de la Société des étu
 des voltairiennes. As General Editor of the Complete Works of Voltaire\, N
 icholas Cronk's main research interests are related to Voltaire\, in parti
 cular Voltaire's historical writings\, his correspondence\, his poetry\, t
 he Lettres philosophiques\, and the Questions sur l’Encyclopédie. Cronk al
 so studies the French Enlightenment more generally\, the history of the bo
 ok (in particular the illustrated book) and questions of critical editing.
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LOCATION:Colgate Seminar Room\, Rare Books and Special Collections (4th flo
 or)\, McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 rue 
 McTavish
SUMMARY:Lecture | Voltaire and the Art of the Miscellany
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