An American Voltaire
Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee

A collection of essays that was assembled to honor the memory of the late, eminent Voltaire scholar J Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by scholars from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France on a variety of topics in French eighteenth-century studies.

It also includes such essay titles as: "Greuze's Self-Portraits: Figures of Artistic Identity", "From Forest to Field: Sylvan Elegists of Eighteenth-Century France", "The Falsification of Voltaire's Letters and the Public Persona of the Author: From the Lettres secrettes (1765) to the Commentaire historique (1776)", "The Baron de Saint-Castin, Bricaire de la Dixmerie, and Azakia (1765)", "John Law and the Rhetoric of Calculation", "'Le Roi des Bulgares': Was Voltaire's Satire on Frederick the Great just too Opaque?", "Voltaire and the Voyage to Rome", "Textual liaisons: Voltaire, Pamela and Don Quixote", "Les petits livres du grand homme: polemique et combat philosophique chez Voltaire", "Sentimental Horror: Enlightenment Tragedy and the Rise of the Genre Terrible", and "Voltaire and the Comic Genre: Polemics and Rhetoric".