'Voltaire and the Sirven affair (1762-1772)' by John Renwick has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In this blog post, Renwick highlights the key arguments from his new book, re-evaluating Voltaire’s involvement and showing that, unlike the famous Calas affair, his role in the Sirvens’ eventual exoneration was limited.
‘Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas’ by Luis Ramos
'Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas' by Luis Ramos has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In this blog post, Ramos reflects on his research and explains how the book uncovers the transformative role that eighteenth-century Mexican Jesuits played in reshaping European intellectual life.
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.
‘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.
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