New publication in honour of Professor Nicholas Cronk

Professor Nicholas Cronk, Emeritus Fellow of the Hall and Director of the Voltaire Foundation, was recently presented with a festschrift honouring his work on Voltaire and the French Enlightenment.

The volume, to be published by Liverpool University Press on 28 November, is edited by two of Nicholas’ former graduate students – Dr Gillian Pink (Oxford) and Professor Thomas Wynn (Durham). The title L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix (translation: Writing is the Painting of Voice) is a quotation from Voltaire’s Questions sur l’Encyclopédie, a work edited by Nicholas as part of the Complete Works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation.

The festschrift, which comprises essays by internationally eminent scholars, is a fitting tribute to the esteem and affection in which Nicholas is held as a colleague, teacher and mentor, and reflects the invaluable contributions he has made to eighteenth-century studies and our knowledge of Voltaire.

Visit the Liverpool University Press website to find out more about the publication.