Alison Oliver and Gillian Pink from the Voltaire Foundation discuss Oxford University Voltaire – a groundbreaking new digital edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire.
The making and remaking of the Enlightenment
This blog post revisits 'Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment', recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The editors offer fresh reflections on the essays in the volume and consider their relevance to the current political and cultural climate.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment at 70: Celebrating the legacy and future of the series
This blog post celebrates a major milestone: the 70th anniversary of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In this commemorative post, series editor Gregory Brown reflects on the enduring legacy of the series.
Pride Month 2025 Reading List
This Pride Month, we've assembled a reading list of queer histories and queer theory.
‘The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice’ by Denys Van Renen
The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post highlights its intervention as the first book-length study to analyze the genre of the picaresque as drawing attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century iterations of it respond to environmental disasters. Ultimately, the economic precarity of the genre’s low-born characters renders them more attuned to environmental precarity.
