Altered Narratives: Female Eighteenth-Century French Authors Reinterpreted

Vol. I of the Eighteenth-Century French World Centre-The University of Western Ontario, edited by Servanne Woodward, Anthony Purdy, Minnette Gaudet, and Peter R. Saìzhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/frenchebooks/1000/thumbnail.jp

Public Space of the Domestic Sphere. Espace public de la sphere domestique

Vol. II of the Eighteenth-Century French World Centre-The University of Western Ontario, edited by Servanne Woodward, Roland V. Bonnel, Alain Goldschläger, Christine Roulston, and Peter R. Saìzhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/frenchebooks/1001/thumbnail.jp

Voltaire’s Candide: From the Other Side of Civilization

Candide is generally anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anti-colonization, although Voltaire’s perspective of nature may reaffirm the idea that the state of nature is not enviable and civilization —indeed luxury probably dependent on colonial economy and horrors—seems preferable, although the happy conclusion is set in an Eastern agrarian-horticultural context that would not be luxurious unless luxury and European relationship to “nature” are redefined in the context of the Eastern garden. As well, Voltaire gave us an insight as to what he imagined was the symmetrical doubt about the humanity of the “other” from the oddly distorted mutual perspective at the time of the encounters between the Oreillons and Candide accompanied by Cacambo. The “natives” mate with monkeys (are mistaken for [disposable] monkeys); Candide and Cacambo are mistaken for prey (or harmful Jesuit animal species) to be feasted upon for dinner. Candide is generally anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anti-colonization, although Voltaire’s perspective of nature may reaffirm the idea that the state of nature is not enviable and civilization —indeed luxury probably dependent on colonial economy and horrors—seems preferable, although the happy conclusion is set in an Eastern agrarian-horticultural context that would not be luxurious unless luxury and European relationship to “nature” are redefined in the context of the Eastern garden. As well, Voltaire gave us an insight as to what he imagined was the symmetrical doubt about the humanity of the “other” from the oddly distorted mutual perspective at the time of the encounters between the Oreillons and Candide accompanied by Cacambo. The “natives” mate with monkeys (are mistaken for [disposable] monkeys); Candide and Cacambo are mistaken for prey (or harmful Jesuit animal species) to be feasted upon for dinner.&nbsp