EE offers scholars the opportunity to publish born-digital critical editions online, integrated into our network of biographical and documentary links. As the letters are edited and prepared for online publication they will be fully integrated into EE's architecture and will benefit from links to thousands of other documents, persons and themes.
Updating Voltaire! — new letters and substantial revisions of existing letters to, from and about one of the outstanding figure of the 18th Century will be published in Electronic Enlightenment beginning later in 2011.
Electronic Enlightenment already publishes, in its entirety, the best critical edition of Voltaire's complete correspondence (Correspondence and related documents. Ed. Theodore Besterman. 2nd ed. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968–1977). Of course, since that edition was completed, additional Voltaire letters have been discovered. These are now being edited for inclusion in EE, making it the only source for Voltaire's "complete correspondence".
Plus substantial revisions of editions of 9 further letters.
Plus substantial revisions of editions of 14 further letters.
Twelve hitherto unpublished letters were first published recently in the Revue Voltaire (RV): a small journal published in Paris, which is not available online and is almost impossible to access in the UK and the USA. The Société des études voltairiennes which publishes the journal has given the Voltaire Foundation and EE permission to digitize these letters and so make them available online for the first time. These include documents of major importance to historians (e.g. the last letter written by Frederick the Great to Voltaire) and philosophers (e.g. the only known private letter from Voltaire to Hume).
Editorial team: Nicholas Cronk, Robert McNamee.
If you are interested in publishing a new letter or a small group of letters in EE, please email us about . Your publication will appear with its own credits in our register of EE editions.