Nicholas Cronk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Cronk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cronk |
| SIGNATURE | CRONK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | ST EDMUND HALL OXFORD |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2701-8860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Voltaire, penseur de la modernité
Le récit de l’empirisme triomphant mis en circulation par Voltaire est à réexaminer. C’est dans ses Lettres sur les Anglais (1733) que Voltaire construit une histoire de la pensée empirique qui oppose Locke à Descartes, et qui culmine dans la pensée de Locke et de Newton. Inutile d’insister sur les simplifications évidentes de ce récit novateur. Premièrement, Voltaire innove en présentant les idées clés de Newton. Deuxièmement, il suggère, de faç…
Rediscovering Voltaire
Réimaginer le corpus voltairien
Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire publiées par la Voltaire Foundation à Oxford furent commencées en 1968; elles s’achèvent en 205 volumes en 2022. Il s’agit de la première édition depuis celle de Kehl (1784-1789) qui a repensé complètement le corpus voltairien; et c’est sans doute la dernière édition des œuvres complètes de Voltaire à être imprimée sur papier. La définition du corpus est complexe : si certaines œuvres attribuées à Voltaire sont ex…
Voltaire’s Incomplete Works (and Why They Will Stay that Way)
The Complete works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation were begun in 1968 and will be completed in 203 volumes in 2021. In so far as discoveries of manuscripts and editions will continue to be made, this monumental edition is necessarily incomplete. But it is also incomplete in another more profound sense. Eighteenth-century editions of Voltaire present an often unstable version of the text; Voltaire cultivates an open and fluid styl…
Voltaire
The scientist
Following the publication of the Lettres philosophiques in 1734, Voltaire was no longer welcome in Paris or Versailles. He moved to the château de Cirey with his lover, Émilie Du Châtelet. There, Voltaire set out to become a scientist and began to deepen his understanding of Newtonian physics. His most important scientific work to emerge in this period was Éléments de la philosophie de Newton (1738). The work played a key role in spreading knowle…
The campaigner
In the years after 1760, Voltaire finally found the voice as a public intellectual that has ever since characterized him. ‘The campaigner’ outlines his time at his new home in Ferney, France, near the border with Geneva, and his crusade for religious tolerance. It describes Voltaire’s responses to the 1761 Portuguese Malagrida auto-da-fé and the 1762 Calas affair in Toulouse, a defining event in Voltaire’s career; it produced a radically new publ…
The Epicurean poet
Voltaire was a poet first and foremost, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his contemporaries, and throughout his long life he never stopped writing verse. ‘The Epicurean poet’ explains how Epicureanism shaped Voltaire’s thinking and how he took a paradoxical stance in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. It describes his early epic poem La Henriade and his libertine verse such as La Pucelle, a bawdy mock epic poem about Joan of Arc. I…
La correspondance entre Voltaire et le duc d’Uzès
L’édition Besterman de la correspondance de Voltaire et son supplément de 1976 présentaient déjà une dizaine de lettres échangées par Voltaire et Charles Emmanuel de Crussol, duc d’Uzès, entre 1751 et 1760. La découverte d’un recueil manuscrit au Château d’Uzès, contenant leur correspondance sans doute complète, permet d’ajouter à ce corpus deux lettres de d’Uzès à Voltaire, ainsi qu’une « lettre à un évêque » écrite par d’Uzès en réaction à l’at…
Voltaire and the Posture of Anonymity
Voltaire and the Posture of Anonymity Nicholas Cronk (bio) Le mot écrire ne s'employe presque plus dans un grand nombre d'occasions, que pour désigner le style. Jaucourt, "écrivain, auteur," Encyclopédie Voltaire uses—and abuses—anonymity in complex ways that tell us much about how he projects his style of authorship and so constructs his thought. His practices are paradoxical, not least because his instantly recognisable style would seem to jeop…
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire
As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, f…
Voltaire
For one historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin, Voltaire is 'the central figure of the Enlightenment'; while for another, John Gray, 'Voltaire's writings on philosophical questions are unoriginal to the last degree . . . Few of the entries in his Philosophical Dictionary are concerned with philosophical questions.' The problem lies in part with the word philosophique, which Gray here (perhaps mischievously) misunderstands. The French word philosophe i…
The Cambridge companion to Voltaire
Rameau's Nephew and First Satire
unless you know everything, you really know nothing' Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris cafe between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and highly entertaining, the dialogue exposes the corrup…
Le comte de Caylus
Injustement oublié de la critique, le comte de Caylus (1692-1765) est l’un de ces curieux qui font tout l’attrait du XVIIIe siècle. Graveur industrieux et doué, amateur honoraire de l’Académie de Peinture, inspirateur des artistes, archéologue et critique d’art avant la lettre ; membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions, médiéviste et théoricien du conte ; inspirateur de la célèbre société du Bout du Banc, où il composa avec ses convives l’Histoire d…
Arouet, poète épicurien. Les voix de l'épicurisme dans la poésie de jeunesse de Voltaire
This article studies the nature and extent of Epicurean influence on Arouet' s early poetry, up to 1722, when he writes the poem later known as the Epître à Uranie. The influence of Chaulieu and the Société du Temple is evident in the two epistles in verse and prose published in the Mercure in 1716 and 1717 ; in these poems, for a wide public, the Epicureanism hardly goes beyond conventional libertinism. In other poems, however, circulated in man…
Picturing the Text
BOOK ILLUSTRATION Picturing the Text: Authorial Direction of Illustration in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction Nicholas Cronk Je sais bien que ce n'est pas un grand mérite de parler aux yeux.1 Voltaire L'impression de la parole est toujours foible et l'on parle au cœur par les yeux bien mieux que par les oreilles.2 Rousseau Bibliophiles have long regarded eighteenth-century French illustrated books as among the most beautiful ever produced; and l…
Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître
Nicholas Cronk, Jacques le Fataliste et son maître : un roman quichotisé. Il n'y a qu'une référence explicite à Don Quichotte dans Jacques le Fataliste ; le roman de Cervantes est pourtant omniprésent dans celui de Diderot. L'histoire du maître et de son serviteur qui voyagent à cheval et qui bavardent ensemble dérive évidemment de Don Quichotte, et la cohérence du couple Jacques et son maître, essentielle à la tension dialectique de ce roman phi…
The Play of Words and Music in Molière-Charpentier's Le Malade Imaginaire
Journal Article THE PLAY OF WORDS AND MUSIC IN MOLIÈRE-CHARPENTIER'S LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE Get access NICHOLAS CRONK NICHOLAS CRONK ST EDMUND HALLOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 6–19, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVII.1.6 Published: 01 January 1993
The Enigma of French Classicism
Journal Article THE ENIGMA OF FRENCH CLASSICISM: A PLATONIC CURRENT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETIC THEORY Get access NICHOLAS CRONK NICHOLAS CRONK OXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XL, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 269–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XL.3.269 Published: 01 July 1986
La correspondance entre Voltaire et le duc d’Uzès
L’édition Besterman de la correspondance de Voltaire et son supplément de 1976 présentaient déjà une dizaine de lettres échangées par Voltaire et Charles Emmanuel de Crussol, duc d’Uzès, entre 1751 et 1760. La découverte d’un recueil manuscrit au Château d’Uzès, contenant leur correspondance sans doute complète, permet d’ajouter à ce corpus deux lettres de d’Uzès à Voltaire, ainsi qu’une « lettre à un évêque » écrite par d’Uzès en réaction à l’at…
Arouet, poète épicurien. Les voix de l'épicurisme dans la poésie de jeunesse de Voltaire
This article studies the nature and extent of Epicurean influence on Arouet' s early poetry, up to 1722, when he writes the poem later known as the Epître à Uranie. The influence of Chaulieu and the Société du Temple is evident in the two epistles in verse and prose published in the Mercure in 1716 and 1717 ; in these poems, for a wide public, the Epicureanism hardly goes beyond conventional libertinism. In other poems, however, circulated in man…
The Enigma of French Classicism
Journal Article THE ENIGMA OF FRENCH CLASSICISM: A PLATONIC CURRENT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETIC THEORY Get access NICHOLAS CRONK NICHOLAS CRONK OXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XL, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 269–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XL.3.269 Published: 01 July 1986
The Play of Words and Music in Molière-Charpentier's Le Malade Imaginaire
Journal Article THE PLAY OF WORDS AND MUSIC IN MOLIÈRE-CHARPENTIER'S LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE Get access NICHOLAS CRONK NICHOLAS CRONK ST EDMUND HALLOXFORD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 6–19, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XLVII.1.6 Published: 01 January 1993
Jacques le Fataliste et son Maître
Nicholas Cronk, Jacques le Fataliste et son maître : un roman quichotisé. Il n'y a qu'une référence explicite à Don Quichotte dans Jacques le Fataliste ; le roman de Cervantes est pourtant omniprésent dans celui de Diderot. L'histoire du maître et de son serviteur qui voyagent à cheval et qui bavardent ensemble dérive évidemment de Don Quichotte, et la cohérence du couple Jacques et son maître, essentielle à la tension dialectique de ce roman phi…
Picturing the Text
BOOK ILLUSTRATION Picturing the Text: Authorial Direction of Illustration in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction Nicholas Cronk Je sais bien que ce n'est pas un grand mérite de parler aux yeux.1 Voltaire L'impression de la parole est toujours foible et l'on parle au cœur par les yeux bien mieux que par les oreilles.2 Rousseau Bibliophiles have long regarded eighteenth-century French illustrated books as among the most beautiful ever produced; and l…
Arouet, poète épicurien. Les voix de l'épicurisme dans la poésie de jeunesse de Voltaire
This article studies the nature and extent of Epicurean influence on Arouet' s early poetry, up to 1722, when he writes the poem later known as the Epître à Uranie. The influence of Chaulieu and the Société du Temple is evident in the two epistles in verse and prose published in the Mercure in 1716 and 1717 ; in these poems, for a wide public, the Epicureanism hardly goes beyond conventional libertinism. In other poems, however, circulated in man…
Le comte de Caylus
Injustement oublié de la critique, le comte de Caylus (1692-1765) est l’un de ces curieux qui font tout l’attrait du XVIIIe siècle. Graveur industrieux et doué, amateur honoraire de l’Académie de Peinture, inspirateur des artistes, archéologue et critique d’art avant la lettre ; membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions, médiéviste et théoricien du conte ; inspirateur de la célèbre société du Bout du Banc, où il composa avec ses convives l’Histoire d…
Rameau's Nephew and First Satire
unless you know everything, you really know nothing' Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris cafe between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and highly entertaining, the dialogue exposes the corrup…
The Cambridge companion to Voltaire
The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire
As a leading thinker of the European Enlightenment, Voltaire is a central figure in France's collective cultural memory. The popularity of Candide has made him perhaps best known as a writer of tales. Yet these represent only a fraction of his entire œuvre. Voltaire created a style of authorship which made him the most famous writer in Europe and made him a figurehead for a certain style of writing and thinking. This Companion covers his plays, f…
Voltaire
For one historian of ideas, Isaiah Berlin, Voltaire is 'the central figure of the Enlightenment'; while for another, John Gray, 'Voltaire's writings on philosophical questions are unoriginal to the last degree . . . Few of the entries in his Philosophical Dictionary are concerned with philosophical questions.' The problem lies in part with the word philosophique, which Gray here (perhaps mischievously) misunderstands. The French word philosophe i…
Voltaire and the Posture of Anonymity
Voltaire and the Posture of Anonymity Nicholas Cronk (bio) Le mot écrire ne s'employe presque plus dans un grand nombre d'occasions, que pour désigner le style. Jaucourt, "écrivain, auteur," Encyclopédie Voltaire uses—and abuses—anonymity in complex ways that tell us much about how he projects his style of authorship and so constructs his thought. His practices are paradoxical, not least because his instantly recognisable style would seem to jeop…
La correspondance entre Voltaire et le duc d’Uzès
L’édition Besterman de la correspondance de Voltaire et son supplément de 1976 présentaient déjà une dizaine de lettres échangées par Voltaire et Charles Emmanuel de Crussol, duc d’Uzès, entre 1751 et 1760. La découverte d’un recueil manuscrit au Château d’Uzès, contenant leur correspondance sans doute complète, permet d’ajouter à ce corpus deux lettres de d’Uzès à Voltaire, ainsi qu’une « lettre à un évêque » écrite par d’Uzès en réaction à l’at…
Voltaire
The scientist
Following the publication of the Lettres philosophiques in 1734, Voltaire was no longer welcome in Paris or Versailles. He moved to the château de Cirey with his lover, Émilie Du Châtelet. There, Voltaire set out to become a scientist and began to deepen his understanding of Newtonian physics. His most important scientific work to emerge in this period was Éléments de la philosophie de Newton (1738). The work played a key role in spreading knowle…
The campaigner
In the years after 1760, Voltaire finally found the voice as a public intellectual that has ever since characterized him. ‘The campaigner’ outlines his time at his new home in Ferney, France, near the border with Geneva, and his crusade for religious tolerance. It describes Voltaire’s responses to the 1761 Portuguese Malagrida auto-da-fé and the 1762 Calas affair in Toulouse, a defining event in Voltaire’s career; it produced a radically new publ…
The Epicurean poet
Voltaire was a poet first and foremost, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his contemporaries, and throughout his long life he never stopped writing verse. ‘The Epicurean poet’ explains how Epicureanism shaped Voltaire’s thinking and how he took a paradoxical stance in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. It describes his early epic poem La Henriade and his libertine verse such as La Pucelle, a bawdy mock epic poem about Joan of Arc. I…
Voltaire’s Incomplete Works (and Why They Will Stay that Way)
The Complete works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation were begun in 1968 and will be completed in 203 volumes in 2021. In so far as discoveries of manuscripts and editions will continue to be made, this monumental edition is necessarily incomplete. But it is also incomplete in another more profound sense. Eighteenth-century editions of Voltaire present an often unstable version of the text; Voltaire cultivates an open and fluid styl…
Réimaginer le corpus voltairien
Les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire publiées par la Voltaire Foundation à Oxford furent commencées en 1968; elles s’achèvent en 205 volumes en 2022. Il s’agit de la première édition depuis celle de Kehl (1784-1789) qui a repensé complètement le corpus voltairien; et c’est sans doute la dernière édition des œuvres complètes de Voltaire à être imprimée sur papier. La définition du corpus est complexe : si certaines œuvres attribuées à Voltaire sont ex…
Voltaire, penseur de la modernité
Le récit de l’empirisme triomphant mis en circulation par Voltaire est à réexaminer. C’est dans ses Lettres sur les Anglais (1733) que Voltaire construit une histoire de la pensée empirique qui oppose Locke à Descartes, et qui culmine dans la pensée de Locke et de Newton. Inutile d’insister sur les simplifications évidentes de ce récit novateur. Premièrement, Voltaire innove en présentant les idées clés de Newton. Deuxièmement, il suggère, de faç…
Rediscovering Voltaire
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