People
Dr Jonathan Mallinson continued as Acting Director in Michaelmas Term; the Director returned from sabbatical leave in Hilary Term. Mrs Janet Godden, Deputy Publisher, was decorated by the French Ambassador in June, and appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques. Dr Antonio Gurrado, Marie Curie Fellow, joined the editorial team for a period of two years. There are now a total of five Research Fellows associated with the Complete works of Voltaire project: Professor David Adams, Professor Graham Gargett, Professor John Renwick, Dr Diego Venturino and Professor David Williams.
Publications
In another successful year for the Foundation, a total of 23 new titles were published (see Annexe). Six volumes of the Complete works of Voltaire were published during the academic year, so that the Foundation remains on course to complete this project by the target date of 2018. Twelve volumes were published in the SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) collection, which continues to publish the best modern research in both English and French, on all aspects of the Enlightenment. The series has consolidated its position as the foremost collection dedicated to research on the eighteenth century and continues to be the preferred place of publication for both young and established scholars. We also published new volumes in all of our correspondence collections, and in addition to these print publications, we published electronically, in Electronic Enlightenment (now housed at the Bodleian Library), the first tranche of letters in the Correspondance de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
Research programme (Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment)
Inaugurated in 2008, the Besterman Centre is a research centre of the Humanities Division housed at the Voltaire Foundation. The Programme Director this year was Dr Kate Tunstall. The Centre organised three major international conferences:
— Les 250 ans de Candide: lectures et relectures (funding was received from the John Fell Fund,
the French Embassy, the Maison Française d’Oxford, the CNRS, and the Modern Languages
Faculty).
— Celebrating Diderot Studies (in collaboration with the CIERL, Université Laval).
— Theatrical Institutions and their Quarrels (1660-1848) (in collaboration with the GRIHL
(EHESS and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Paris X-Nanterre). The Foundation continued to serve as secretariat of the International Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies (ISECS), the principal interdisciplinary forum for eighteenth-century research. The Besterman Centre collaborated with the University of Leeds and the Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne to organise our annual postgraduate conference, this year held in Leeds for the first time. Besterman Lectures were delivered by Professor Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (‘Beaumarchais and the Bastille: An Aristocratic Villa in Revolutionary Paris’), and by Professor Colin Jones FBA, Queen Mary London (‘Laughing All the Way to the French
Revolution: The Caricatures of Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin’). The Foundation continued to host the Enlightenment Workshop. The Foundation collaborated with the New York Public Library to create Candide 2.0, an online and interactive edition of Candide
(http://candide.nypl.org/text/).
Development
The French Academy has awarded the Voltaire Foundation the 2010 Prix Hervé Deluen, worth €25,000, in recognition of the achievement of the Complete works of Voltaire. The Complete works of Voltaire has received two generous private donations, and has also received awards towards the publication of specific volumes from the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust, and the Union académique internationale (UAI). The Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny is supported by a private sponsor. The Correspondance de Bayle is supported by the CNRS and the Fondation de la Poste. The Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle is supported by the Parc de Cévennes, the Comité genevois pour le protestantisme français and the Carlsbergfondet. The John Fell Fund has given support to the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment. The Wiener-Anspach Foundation has funded an exchange research programme to be run jointly with the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Further information about the activities and publications of the Foundation can be found on our
websites: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk & www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/bestermancentre
ANNEXE: BOOKS PUBLISHED AUGUST 2009 – JULY 2010
(1) Œuvres complètes de Voltaire
22 Essai sur les mœurs et l’esprit des nations (II): Avant-propos, ch.1-37
Sous la direction de Bruno Bernard, John Renwick, Nicholas Cronk et Janet Godden
ISBN 9780729408745 • hb/relié • liv + 547 p. • paru en novembre 2009
40 Questions sur l’Encyclopédie, par des amateurs (IV): César-Egalité
Sous la direction de Nicholas Cronk et Christiane Mervaud
ISBN 9780729409223 • hb/relié • xxxii + 676 p. • paru en décembre 2009
49A Sermon des cinquante | Œuvres de 1758-1759
ISBN 9780729409018 • hb/relié • xxvi+506 p. • paru en mars 2010
Sermon des cinquante • Critical edition by J. Patrick Lee with the participation of Gillian Pink Précis de l’Ecclésiaste Précis du Cantique des cantiques • Editions critiques par Marie-Hélène Cotoni Lettre sur le Messie • Critical edition by Antonio Gurrado Réfutation d’un écrit anonyme contre la mémoire de feu Monsieur Joseph Saurin de l’Académie des sciences, examinateur des livres et préposé au Journal des savants • Edition critique par John Renwick Des allégories • Critical edition by David Williams Mémoire sur le libelle clandestinement imprimé à Lausanne sous le titre de Guerre de Monsieur de Voltaire • Edition critique par John Renwick Requête aux magnifiques seigneurs curateurs de l’Académie de Lausanne • Edition critique par John Renwick Extraits de plusieurs morceaux de l’éloge funèbre du cordonnier Reinhart par Sa Majesté le roi de Prusse • Edition critique par Emile Lizé Ariste et Acrotal • Critical edition by David Williams Un sauvage et un bachelier • Critical edition by David Williams Entretiens chinois • Critical edition by Basil Guy Histoire d’un bon bramin • Critical edition by Haydn Mason
45C Paméla | Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même
ISBN 9780729409858 • hb/relié • xxxvi+468 p. • paru en 2010
Paméla • Critical edition by Jonathan Mallinson Mémoires pour servir à la vie de Monsieur de Voltaire, écrits par lui-même • Critical edition by Jonathan Mallinson
75B Fragments sur l’Inde et sur le général Lalli
ISBN 9780729409827 • hb/relié • xviii+346 p. • paru en décembre 2009
Fragments sur l’Inde et sur le général Lalli • Critical edition by Cynthia Manley and John Renwick Text attributable to Voltaire: Mandement du muphti suivi d’un Décret di divan •
Presented by Nicholas Cronk
138 Corpus des notes marginales 3: Dale–Frisi
Sous la direction de Natalia Elaguina • Réédition
ISBN 9780729409384 • hb/relié • vi + 778 p. • 26 illus.• paru en avril 2010
(2) SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century)
Regulating the Académie: art, rules and power in ancien régime France
Reed Benhamou
SVEC 2009:08, ISBN 978-0-7294-0972-8
Bentham et la France: fortune et infortunes de l’utilitarisme
Ed. Emmanuelle de Champs et Jean-Pierre Cléro
SVEC 2009:09, ISBN 978-0-7294-0980-3
The Early Britannica (1768-1803): the growth of an outstanding encyclopedia
Ed. Frank A. Kafker and Jeff Loveland
SVEC 2009:10, ISBN 978-0-7294-0981-0
Le Récit génétique au XVIII e siècle
Jan Herman
SVEC 2009:11, ISBN 978-0-7294-0986-5
Epicurus in the Enlightenment
Ed. Neven Leddy and Avi Lifschitz
SVEC 2009:12, ISBN 978-0-7294-0987-2
The Super-Enlightenment: daring to know too much
Ed. Dan Edelstein
SVEC 2010:01, ISBN 978-0-7294-0990-2
L’Invention du sentiment : roman et économie affective au XVIII e siècle
Philip Stewart
SVEC 2010:02, ISBN 978-0-7294-0991-9
An Alternative encyclopedia? Dennis de Coetlogon’s Universal history (1745)
Jeff Loveland
SVEC 2010:03, ISBN 978-0-7294-0992-6
Cultural transfers : France and Britain in the long eighteenth century
Ed. Ann Thomson, Simon Burrows and Edmond Dziembowski with Sophie Audidière
SVEC 2010:04, ISBN 978-0-7294-0993-3
The Temperamental nude: class, medicine and representation in eighteenth-century France
Tony Halliday with Richard Wrigley
SVEC 2010:05, ISBN 978-0-7294-0994-0
Le Rayonnement de Bayle
Ed. Philippe de Robert, Claudine Pailhès et Hubert Bost
SVEC 2010:06, ISBN 978-0-7294-0995-7
Edward Gibbon, Essai sur l’étude de la littérature. A critical edition.
Introduced and annotated by Robert Mankin
SVEC 2010:07, ISBN 978-0-7294-0997-1
(3) Correspondence series
Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle: Volume V
mai 1752-avril 1753
Editor(s): Hubert Bost, Claude Lauriol, Hubert Angliviel de La Beaumelle
ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-0960-5
Correspondance de Bayle: Volume VII
juillet 1686 – décembre 1688, Lettres 588 – 719
Ed. Elisabeth Labrousse and Antony McKenna.
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0973-5
Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny Volume 13
20 août 1752 – 30 décembre 1753 Lettres 1907 – 2092
Series editor: J. A. Dainard. Volume editor(s): Diane Beelen Woody, Aubrey Rosenberg
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0809-7
(4) Vif series
Marivaux: jeu et surprises de l’amour
Editor: Pierre Frantz
ISBN: 978-0-7294-0996-4