The Modern Language Review · 1993 · 98 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesHistoryMythologyEnlightenment ThoughtPolitical SatireSatire
The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's Candide. It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.