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Voltaire: publications, controversies and exile (1726–1778)

1726 - 1778

Translations and the circulation of Enlightenment texts (1730–1800)

1697 - 1800

The Republic of Letters: correspondence and learned networks (1690–1789)

1684 - 1789

The epistolary novel in the mid-18th century (1740–1765)

1740 - 1761

Spanish Enlightenment Literature (1750–1808)

1759 - 1808

Sentimental literature and the novel of sensibility (1740–1790)

1740 - 1811

Satire, pamphleteering and political caricature in the Enlightenment (1700–1789)

1711 - 1789

Samuel Richardson and the rise of the epistolary novel (1740–1761)

1740 - 1761

Publication history of the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)

1745 - 1780

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: writings and public life (1749–1778)

1750 - 1778

German Enlightenment (Aufklärung) Literature (1720–1800)

1727 - 1784

French salons, literary patronage and censorship (1720–1789)

1720 - 1789

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