Fr5 Revolutions in Writing, 1700-1900 Introductory Material Burgwinkle, William, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson (eds), The Cambridge History of French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Pp. ** Chapters Hollier, Denis (ed.), A New History of French Literature (Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 1989) Kay, Sarah, Cave, Terence & Bowie, Malcolm, A Short History of French Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003-06) Journal Articles Eighteenth-Century Fiction P700.c.739 (North Wing, Floor 2 or, for latest edition, pigeon hole: W. 977) Eighteenth-Century Studies P700.c.373 (North Wing, Floor 2) Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC), Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 735:07 c.1.2-….(North Wing, Floor 3) Secondary Material *Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, Le barbier de Séville, Le mariage de Figaro, La mère coupable Biography: Beaumarchais, Jean-Pierre, Beaumarchais: Le voltigeur des Lumières (Paris: Gallimard, 1996) Lever, Maurice, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (Paris: Fayard, 1999-2004) (3 vols) Morton, Brian N. and Donald C. Spinelli, Beaumarchais: a Bibliography (Ann Arbor: Olivia Hill Press, 1988) Pomeau, René, Beaumarchais ou la bizarre destinée (Paris: PUF, 1977) Individual Plays: Dunkley, John, Beaumarchais: Le Barbier de Seville (London: Grant and Cutler, 1991) Niklaus, Robert, Beaumarchais: Le mariage de Figaro (London: Grant and Cutler, 1983) Pugh, A.R., Beaumarchais: Le mariage de Figaro: An interpretation (London: Macmillan, 1970) Francis, R.A., ‘Figaro in changing times: Beaumarchais’ La mère coupable’, British journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 18, no.1 (1995), 19-31. Runte, Roseann, ‘Beaumarchais’s La mère coupable’, Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 29, no. 2 (1982) 181-9 General Studies: Conesa, Gabriel, La trilogie de Beaumarchais (Paris: PUF, 1985) Delon, Michel, ‘Beaumarchais et l’autre révolution’, Europe, 528 (April, 1973), 79-88. *Diderot, Denis, Le neveu de Rameau, Le supplément au voyage de Bougainville Individual Works: Adert, Laurent, ‘L’or est tout: la représentation de l’argent dans Le neveu de Rameau’, in Etre riche su siècle de Voltaire (Geneva: Droz, 1996), pp. 297-310 Albertan-Coppola, Sylviane, ‘Rira bien qui rira le dernier’, Autour du Neveu de Rameau de Diderot (Paris: Champion, 1991) Benrekassa, G., ‘Dit et non-dit idéologique: à propos du Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, Dix-huitième siècle 5, 1975 Jimack, Peter, Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (London: Grant & Cutler, 1988) Saint-Amand, Pierre, ‘Vagabondage sur Diderot: à propos du Neveu de Rameau, Stanford French Review 1993 (no17 (1)), pp. 95-108 General Studies: Anderson, Wylda, Diderot’s Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1990) Bremner, Geoffrey, Order & Chance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) Brewer, Daniel, The Discourse of Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) Furbank, P.N., Diderot: A critical biography (London: Secker & Warburg, 1992) Strugnell, Anthony, Diderot’s Politics (The Hague, 1983) *Prévost, abbé, Manon Lescaut Albertane Coppola, Sylviane, Abbé Prévost: Manon Lescaut (Paris: PUF, 1995) Coleman, Patrick, Reparative Realism: Mourning & Modernity on the French Novel, 1730-1830 (Geneva: Droz, 1998) Démoris, René, Le silence de Manon (Paris: PUF, 1995) Francis, R.A., The abbé Prévost’s First-Person Narrators (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1993) Segal, Naomi, The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Thommeret, Loic, La mémoire créatrice: essai sur l’écriture de soi au XVIIIème siècle (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006) *Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, Zadig, Micromégas, Candide, L’Ingénu The Contes: Braun, Theodore, 'Voltaire and his contes: a review essay on interpretations offered by Roy S. Wolper, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 212 (1982), 312-18 Gilot, Michel, 'Fonctions de la parole dans Candide' Littératures, 9-10 (1984), 91-97 Howells, Robin, Disabled Powers: A Reading of Voltaire's Contes (Amsterdam, 1993) Kavanagh, Thomas, The Shadows of Chance (Chicago?, 1992) Murray, Geoffrey, Voltaire's Candide: The Protean Gardener, 1755-1762, (Geneva, 1970) Pearson, Roger, The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's Contes philosophiques (Oxford, 1993) Starobinski, Jean, Le remède dans le mal: Critique et légitimation de l'artifice à l'époque des Lumières (Paris, 1989) Biography: Besterman, Theodore, Voltaire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976) Goldzink, Jean, Voltaire: La légende de saint Arouet (Paris, 1989) Pearson, Roger, Voltaire Almighty (London: Bloomsbury, 2005) Pomeau, René et al eds, Voltaire en son temps, 4 vols (Oxford, 1985-94) General, critical studies: Barthes, Roland, Le dernier des écrivains heureux', Essais critiques (Paris, 1964) Gossman, Lionel 'Voltaire's Heavenly City', Eighteenth-century Studies, 3 (Fall 1967), 67-82 Gay, Peter, Voltaire's Politics: The Poet as Realist (Princeton, 1959) [still of interest] Kolving, Ulla and Mervaud, Christiane, eds Voltaire et ses combats (Oxford, 1997) 2 vols Menant, Sylvain, L'esthétique de Voltaire (Paris: SEDES, 1995) Last updated: November 2012 .