The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.

Table of Contents:

James L. Schorr, Les Petits-Maîtres and La Critique by Justus van Effen 

Roland G. Bonnel, Le despotisme dans les Lettres persanes 

Sheila Mason, Montesquieu on English constitutionalism revisited: a government of potentiality and paradoxes 

William H. Trapnell, Destiny in Voltaire’s Zadig and The Arabian nights 

Moishe Black, The place of the human body in Candide 

Marie Wellington, Crossovers from theatre to narrative in a Voltairian conte 

E. P. Abanime, Les noirs dans l’œuvre romanesque de Voltaire 

Jean-Claude David, De Voltaire à Marmontel: quelques autographes du dix-huitième siècle réunis par Jacques Charavay (1809–1867) 

Giovanna Gronda, De la satire à la parodie: de Voltaire à Monti — la traduction italienne de la Pucelle d’Orléans 

Walter E. Rex, Sexual metamorphoses on the stage in mid-eighteenth-century Paris: the theatrical background of Rousseau’s Narcisse 

Guillemette Johnston, The divided self in La Nouvelle Héloïse 

Anna Ridehalgh, Rousseau as God? The Ermenonville pilgrimages in the Revolution 

Diane Fourny, L’Emile et la question du livre 

Guy Wagener, What in the devil’s name is Jacques le fataliste? 

Vincent McB. Tobin, Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride: an eighteenth-century Euripidean drama 

Alexander Sokalski, Grammars and grottos: language learning and language teaching in pre-revolutionary Paris, 1780–1789 

Santo L. Arico, Elitism versus popularism in the educational treatises of La Chalotais, Morveau and Rolland 

D. D. Raphael, D. R. Raynor, I. S. Ross, “This very awkward affair”: an entanglement of Scottish professors with English lords 

Leonore Loft, J.-P. Brissot and the problem of Jewish emancipation