| Robert M. Adams was Professor of English Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles. He was the author of many books, including Ikon: John Milton and the Modern Critics, Strains of Discord, Surface and Symbol, The Land and Literature of England, and Shakespeare—The Four Romances. He edited six other Norton Critical Editions, including Utopia by Sir Thomas More, The Prince by Machiavelli, and The Praise of Folly and Other Writings by Erasmus and Red and Black by Stendhal, the texts of which he also translated. He was also a contributing editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. |
| Preface to the Second Edition The Text of Candide, or Optimism "Candide" and Mademoiselle "Cunégonde": A Note on Their Names Candide Backgrounds Robert M. Adams·Summary: The Intellectual Backgrounds Voltaire·Well, Everything is Well Gustave Lanson·Voltaire at Les Délices and at Ferney Haydn Mason·[Gestation: Candide Assembling Itself] English Visitors to Ferney: A Sampling Edward Gibbon, August 1763 James Boswell, December 1764 Rev. Nortoon Nichols, August 1771 Charles Burney, July 1770 John Moore and Douglas Hamilton (Eighth Duke of Hamilton), July 1772 Criticism Robert M. Adams·The Conte Defined A Checklist of the Contes of Voltaire, and Related Writings Erich Auerbach·[Tone, Pace, Insinuation] I. O. Wade·[Voltaire and Candide] J. G. Weightman·The Quality of Candide Ernst Cassirer·[Voltaire’s Escape from Pascal] Robert M. Adams·Getting the Point The Climate of Controversy 1. VOLTAIRE’S FAITH Voltaire: Letter on the Subject on Candide Peter Gay: [What Did Voltaire Mean by l’Infame?] André Delattre 2. VOLTAIRE’S GREATNESS Joseph de Maistre Victor Hugo Edmond and Jules Goncourt 3. VOLTAIRE’S COHERENCE Emile Faguet Daniel Mornet Raymond Naves 4. VOLTAIRE’S HUMANITY Madame de Stael Gustave Lanson 5. VOLTAIRE’S STYLE Hippolyte Taine John Morley 6. SHORT TAKES Anatole France Gustave Flaubert George Saintsbury André Bellessort Emile Faguet Frederick the Great S. G. Tallentyre Peter Gay Stendhal Richard Wilbur: [Pangloss’s Song] Thomas Jefferson Jacques Van Den Heuvel André Delattre Hugo Friederich 7. VOLTAIRE’S APOTHEOSIS Paul Valéry For Further Reading |
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