Síofra Pierse is head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCD Dublin. She specializes in 18th-century French literature and history of ideas. She is author of Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (2008), editor of The City in Eighteenth-Century French Writing (2004) and co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (with James Hanrahan 2014) and Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century francophone text (with Emma M. Dunne 2022). She enjoys working on 18th-century Francophone topics, particularly female writers and Voltaire.

With this attractive book, Pearse (Univ. College Dublin, Ireland) has delivered a major contribution to the publisher’s “Significant Figures in World History” series … Highly recommended. All readers.

Síofra Pierse is head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCD Dublin. She specializes in 18th-century French literature and history of ideas. She is author of Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (2008), editor of The City in Eighteenth-Century French Writing (2004) and co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (with James Hanrahan 2014) and Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century francophone text (with Emma M. Dunne 2022). She enjoys working on 18th-century Francophone topics, particularly female writers and Voltaire.

With this attractive book, Pearse (Univ. College Dublin, Ireland) has delivered a major contribution to the publisher’s “Significant Figures in World History” series … Highly recommended. All readers.

Síofra Pierse is head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCD Dublin. She specializes in 18th-century French literature and history of ideas. She is author of Voltaire Historiographer: Narrative Paradigms (2008), editor of The City in Eighteenth-Century French Writing (2004) and co-editor of The Dark Side of Diderot (with James Hanrahan 2014) and Turmoil: Instability and Insecurity in the Eighteenth-Century francophone text (with Emma M. Dunne 2022). She enjoys working on 18th-century Francophone topics, particularly female writers and Voltaire.

With this attractive book, Pearse (Univ. College Dublin, Ireland) has delivered a major contribution to the publisher’s “Significant Figures in World History” series … Highly recommended. All readers.