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| Named Person: | Voltaire |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Theodore E D Braun; John B Radner |
| ISBN: | 0729408574 9780729408578 |
| OCLC Number: | 58551131 |
| Language Note: | Text in English; 5 contributions in French. |
| Description: | xiv, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Destruction and regeneration / Malcolm Jack -- Representations of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake / Charles D. James and Jan T. Kozak -- Lisbon earthquake of 1755 / Russell R. Dynes -- Spanish interpretations of the Lisbon earthquake between 1755 and the war of 1762 / Diego Téllez Alarcia -- Spanish news pamphlets on the 1755 earthquake / Carmen Espejo Cala -- Lisbon earthquake and scientific knowledge in the British public sphere / Matthias Georgi -- Trembling earth God's herald / Robert G. Ingram -- Lisbon earthquake / Robert Webster -- Déconstruire l'événement. Un séisme philosophique ou une catastrophe naturelle? / Grégory Quenet -- Voltaire and Le Franc de Pompignan / Theodore E.D. Braun -- Propos de Voltaire, de maître Andŕe et du Tremblement de terre de Lisbonne / Anne-Sophie Barrovecchio -- Je ne pourrai pas en faire le récit / Catroina Seth -- Guéneau de Montbeillard, the Collection académique and the great Lisbon earthquake / Jeff Loveland -- Tremblements dans la presse / Anne Assada et Jean Sgard -- Voltaire / Gilbert Larochelle -- Optimism and theodicy / Monika Gisler -- No way out / Luanne Frank -- Coping and creating after catastrophe / Estela J. Viera. |
| Series Title: | SVEC, 2005:02 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Theodore E.D. Braun and John B. Radner. |
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