Volume 163 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T148330 Preface: 'A French translation of [Shakespeare] which had obtained a very liberal subscription, gave occasion to this appeal'. With a half-title. London: printed for J. Bew, 1777. [4], v, [1], ii,42p.; 8°

A new translation directly from the original French manuscript of Voltaire's 1762 Republican Ideas by a Member of the Academy. This edition also contains supplemental material on Voltaire including an afterword by the translator, a timeline of Voltaire's life and works, summaries of each of the works in his corpus, and a glossary of Philosophic Terminology used by Voltaire. This is a political essay in which he argued for the establishment of a republican form of government in France. Along with Rousseau, Voltaire's writings also helped to inspire a wave of political reform in France and laid the foundation of the revolutions of the late 17th and early 18th century.