Dr. James Hanrahan

• James Hanrahan , Voltaire et le voyage "philosophique" de l'Amiral Anson, Revue Voltaire, 15, 2015, p105 - 119Journal Article, 2015
• James Hanrahan and Síofra Pierse, The Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres, Bern, Peter Lang, 2016, 1 - 260ppBook, 2016
• Le Cri des nations, James Hanrahan and Andrew Hunwick, Complete Works of Voltaire,Writings of 1769 (IIA), David Adams, Simon Davies, et al[ed/s], (Complete Works of Voltaire), Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2015, 247 - 279Critical Edition (Chapter), 2015
• Diderot on Origins, a zone d'ombre of Enlightenment Thought in, editor(s)James Hanrahan and Síofra Pierse , The Dark Side of Diderot, Oxford and Bern, Peter Lang, 2016, pp147 - 167, [James Hanrahan ]Book Chapter, 2016
• Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV, James Hanrahan and Janet Godden, (Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29A), Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2019, -Critical Edition (Book), 2019
• Voltaire, Histoire de la guerre de 1741 , James Hanrahan and Janet Godden, (Complete Works of Voltaire), Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2020, - i-xxxv, 1-505Critical Edition (Book), 2020
• James Hanrahan, Review of uvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.60B, uvres de 1764-1766, by Lorenzo Bianchi, John Renwick et al (eds) , French Studies, 2019Review, 2019
• James Hanrahan, Review of Voltaire et l'écriture de l'histoire: un enjeu politique , by Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet , French Studies, 67, (1), 2013, p99-100Review, 2013
• James Hanrahan, Review of uvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.28B, uvres de 1742-1745 (II), by David Williams (ed.) , Modern Language Review , 105, (4), 2010, p1157-1158Review, 2010
• James Hanrahan, Review of The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, by Nicholas Cronk (ed.) , H-France.net Review, December 2009, 2009, pn/aReview, 2009
• James Hanrahan, Review of State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, by Stephen Miller , French Studies, 63, (3), 2009, p347-348Review, 2009
• James Hanrahan, Review of Les Salons de Diderot: Théorie et écriture, by Pierre Frantz and Elisabeth Lavezzi , French Studies, 63, (3), 2009, p341-342Review, 2009
• James Hanrahan, Review of La Fureur de nuire: échanges pamphlétaires entre philosophes et antiphilosophes (1750-1770), by Olivier Ferret , French Studies, 63, (1), 2009, p91-92Review, 2009
• James Hanrahan, Review of The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean, by Doris Garraway , Forum for Modern Language Studies, 44, (1), 2008, p92Review, 2008
• James Hanrahan, Review of Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution: London's French libellistes, 1758-92, by Simon Burrows , French Studies, 62, (3), 2008, p342-343Review, 2008
• James Hanrahan, Review of Medievalism and manière gothique in Enlightenment France, by Peter Damian-Grint , French Studies, 62, (2), 2008, p215-216Review, 2008
• James Hanrahan, Review of Voltaire in Holland, 1746-1778, by Kees Van Strien , Revue Voltaire, 19, 2019Review, 2019
• James Hanrahan, Review of Droit et philosophie à la lumière de l'Encyclopédie, by Luigi Delia , French Studies, 70, (2), 2016, p107-108Review, 2016
• Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV, James Hanrahan and Janet Godden, (Complete Works of Voltaire, vol.29B), Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2020, - i-xxxiii, 1-484Critical Edition (Book), 2020
• Voltaire: Histoire de la guerre de 1741, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.5.2.04, The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, 2022, [James Hanrahan and Janet Godden]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2022, URL
• Voltaire: Précis du siècle de Louis XV, The Literary Encyclopedia, 1.5.2.04, The Literary Dictionary Company Limited, 2022, [James Hanrahan and Janet Gooden]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2022, URL
• Political Turmoil in Voltaire's Vision and Revision of the Fronde in, editor(s)Síofra Pierse and Emma Dunne , Turmoil: Instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century Francophone text, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2022, pp63 - 79, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2022, URL
• James Hanrahan, Les Remontrances (Europe, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle), by Ullrich Langer and Paul-Alexis Mellet , French Studies, 77, (2), 2023, p304Review, 2023, DOI
• James Hanrahan, Voltaire et son lecteur: essai sur la séduction littéraire, by Sylvain Ménant , French Studies, 76, (4), 2022, p663-664Review, 2022, DOI
• James Hanrahan, Paris blows its top, The Irish Times, 2024, p24 - 24Review Article, 2024, URL
• James Hanrahan, Les Hystériques: en attendant Freud. Par Jean-Christophe Abramovici, Review of Les Hystériques: en attendant Freud, by Par Jean-Christophe Abramovici , French Studies, 77, (4), 2023, p24 - 24, p668Review, 2023, DOI , URL
• James Hanrahan, L'édition critique et l'intention de l'auteur dans les Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, Revue Voltaire, 23, 2024, p35 - 46Journal Article, 2024
• Reimagining the cri public: Voltaire and Public Opinion before Calas in, editor(s)Gillian Pink and Thomas Wynn , L'écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, pp216 - 232, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2024
• James Hanrahan, Voltaire and the Parlements of France, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2009Book, 2009
• Voltaire et le coup Maupeou in, editor(s)John Renwick , Voltaire, la tolérance et la justice , Louvain, Peeters, 2011, pp273 - 289, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2011
• James Hanrahan, Un texte inédit de Voltaire: le Nouveau mémoire du sieur Decroze, Revue Voltaire, 10, (10), 2010, p269 - 282Journal Article, 2010
• Literary crimes and innovation against punishment: Voltaire and the censorship authorities before 1750 in, editor(s)Louise Hardwick , New Approaches to Crime in French Literature, Thought and Culture , Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp137 - 150, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2009
• Creating the 'cri public': Voltaire and public opinion in the early 1760s in, editor(s)Nicholas Cronk , Les années 1760-1770: une grande décennie voltairienne. Mélanges offerts à John Renwick, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2008, pp145 - 158, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2008
• Appealing and appearing to 'reason': Voltaire's political pamphlets of 1771 and public opinion in, editor(s)Ursula Haskins Gonthier , Opinion, nature, culture, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2007, pp31 - 40, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2007
• Au roi en son conseil; Petit écrit sur l'arrêt du conseil du 13 septembre 1774, Nicholas Cronk, uvres complètes de Voltaire/Complete Works of Voltaire, 76, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013, pp403 - 437, [James Hanrahan]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013
• James Hanrahan, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk (ed), H-France.net Review, 9, (154), 2009, p666 - 669Review Article, 2009, URL
• Voltaire's texts for the pays de Gex in, editor(s)Voltaire Foundation , Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Oeuvres de 1767-1768, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2011, pp1 - 37, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2011
• Nicholas Cronk and Christiane Mervaud, 'A Significant Enlightenment Text Fallen between the Cracks of Editorial History', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45, (1), 2011, p157 - 160Review Article, 2011
• Irish Journal of French Studies, Special Issue: Intellectuals and Public Opinion: A Transhistorical Perspective, (2011), 131pp, James Hanrahan and Mairéad Ní Bhriain, [eds]Journal, 2011, URL
• James Hanrahan and Mairéad Ní Bhriain, Intellectuals and Public Opinion: An Evolving Dynamic, Irish Journal of French Studies, 10, 2011, p1 - 18Journal Article, 2011, DOI , URL
• James Hanrahan, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.24, Essai sur les moeurs, ch.68-102, 2011, - pp.493-536Miscellaneous, 2011
• uvres complètes de Voltaire 42B, Nicholas Cronk, Christiane Mervaud, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie, par des amateurs, 42B, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2012, [James Hanrahan ]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2012
• Voltaire's texts on the Hume-Rousseau affair in, editor(s)James Hanrahan, Graham Gargett et al. , uvres complètes de Voltaire, Writings of 1766 (I), Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013, [James Hanrahan ]Book Chapter, 2013
• Texts on the Decroze case and the parish church at Ferney in, editor(s)David Williams et al , Complete Works of Voltaire, Writings of 1760-1762 (II), Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013, pp369 - 426, [James Hanrahan]Book Chapter, 2013
• Privilèges, Christiane Mervaud et al., uvres complètes de Voltaire, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie, par des amateurs (VIII), 43, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2013, pp20 - 30, [James Hanrahan ]Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2013
• James Hanrahan, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, vol.25, Essai sur les moeurs, ch.103-162, 2013, - pp41-72 and pp369-380Miscellaneous, 2013
• The removal of the pays de Gex from the Cinq grosses fermes (1760-1775), James Hanrahan , Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Oeuvres de 1775, Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2014, 1 - 37Critical Edition (Chapter), 2014
• Writings on the pays de Gex salt indemnity in, editor(s)James Hanrahan , Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, Oeuvres de 1775-1776, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2014, pp231 - 271, [Voltaire]Book Chapter, 2014
• Voltaire and the tithes of Ferney, James Hanrahan , Complete Works of Voltaire, writings of 1763-1764, Simon Davies, James Hanrahan et al.[ed/s], (Complete Works of Voltaire), Oxford:, Voltaire Foundation, 2014, 197 - 241Critical Edition (Chapter), 2014

• James Hanrahan , Modern and Contemporary History in Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV, Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2016, Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, University of Oxford, 29 February , 2016, Besterman Centre for the EnlightenmentInvited Talk
• James Hanrahan, Précis du siècle de Louis XV: histoire ou patchwork historique?, Le Siècle de Louis XIV, ou, Voltaire historien de la modernité, Grande Ecurie du château de Versailles, 4 December 2015, 2015, Centre de recherche du château de VersaillesInvited Talk
• James Hanrahan and Sylvie Lannegrand, ADEFFI Annual Conference 2014, 17-19 October 2014, In:Origins/Origines, 2014, Trinity Long Room HubMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Manu Braganca and James Hanrahan, ADEFFI 20th Anniversary Annual Conference 2018: 'Etats présents, états futurs', 19-20 October 2018, 2018, University College DublinMeetings /Conferences Organised
• Geneviève Guétemme and James Hanrahan, ADEFFI Annual Conference 2017: Ecritures des mobilités, 26-28 October 2017, 2017, Université d'OrléansMeetings /Conferences Organised
• James Hanrahan, Thinkers of our Time: Voltaire, Thinkers of our Time: Voltaire, The British Academy, London, 3 March 2020, 2020, British AcademyInvited Talk
• James Hanrahan and Janet Godden, Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV , Enlightenment Workshop: Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV (2019-2020), Oxford, 8 March 2021, 2021, Voltaire FoundationInvited Talk
• James Hanrahan, Figures du moi et environnement naturel au XVIIIe siècle. Par Jean-Luc Guichet, Review of Figures du moi et environnement naturel au XVIIIe siècle, by Par Jean-Luc Guichet , French Studies, 76, (4), 2022, p24 - 24, p671-672Review, DOI
• James Hanrahan, Equality: a self-evident truth?, Review of Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, by Darrin McMahon , Irish Times, (10 August 2024), 2024, p16Review, URL
• James Hanrahan, Reason and unreason, Review of Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great, by Paul Strathern , Irish Times, (1 June 2024), 2024, p17Review, URL
• James Hanrahan, Vincent Cossarutto, Voltaire au service du roi, Review of Voltaire au service du roi. Un pamphlétaire politique au temps de la Révolution Maupeou, 1770-1775, by Vincent Cossarutto , Revue Voltaire, 21, 2023, p419-420Review
• James Hanrahan, Voltaire et les parlements, Revue Voltaire, 2008, - 443-47Miscellaneous
• Phil Dine, James Hanrahan, Mairéad Ní Bhriain, Conference: Intellectuals and Public Opinion from Voltaire to Sartre, 4-5 September, 2009, 2009, NUI GalwayMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• TCD SHARP Conference Committee, SHARP Annual Conference 2012, 26-29 June 2012, In:The Battle for Books, 2012, Trinity College DublinMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• James Hanrahan , Conference: Du bon usage de Rousseau, 13 September 2012, 2012, Trinity Long Room HubMeetings /Conferences Organised
• James Hanrahan and Síofra Pierse, Conference: The Dark Side of Diderot, 7 June 2013, 2013, UCD Newman HouseMeetings /Conferences Organised, URL
• Nicholas Cronk and James Hanrahan, Voltaire historian of modernity, 19-20 November 2014, In:Voltaire historian of modernity, 2014, Maison francaise d'Oxford and Voltaire Foundation, University of OxfordMeetings /Conferences Organised

My research focuses on the literature, history, politics and culture of Enlightenment France. My doctoral research focussed on Voltaire and his relationship with the supreme courts of ancien régime France. I contribute as an external editor to the Complete Works of Voltaire, published by the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford. As well as having written critical introductions to Voltaire's pamphlets on the pays de Gex, I am part of a team of academics annotating the definitive editions of the Essai sur les m urs. I am also interested in and have published on the concept of public opinion and its impact on politics and society, from the eighteenth century up to the present. My current research is focussed on a critical edition of Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV and, in parallel, on the concept of origins in Enlightenment thought.

• Title

  Voltaire historian: Constructing contemporary history in the Enlightenment
  Summary

  Principal Investigator: Professor Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford) The aim of this project is to come to a better understanding of Voltaire's overall philosophical project, by focusing on a neglected aspect of his work: his determination to write "modern" history. Much of his historical writing, especially in the earlier years, is devoted to the modern world. Voltaire first explores the defining characteristics of the modern world (the benefits of trade, the scientific revolution, religious toleration) in a book about England (Lettres philosophiques), before studying the flourishing culture of France during the previous century (Le Siècle de Louis XIV). He then extends this exploration, forwards into modern France (Précis du Siècle de Louis XV), and outwards into the recent history of the whole world (Essai sur les moeurs). My role is as co-editor (with Janet Godden, Voltaire Foundation) of a critical edition of the Précis du Siècle de Louis XV, which will be part of the Complete Works of Voltaire.
  Funding Agency

  Leverhulme Trust
  Date From

  1/01/2013
  Date To

  31/12/2015

History, Heritage and Archaeology, Languages and literature,

• IRCHSS CARA 3-year Post-doctoral Fellowship June, 2010
• Voltaire Foundation Visiting Scholar, Linacre College, University of Oxford Jan-Feb, 2008
• Leverhulme Trust PhD Studentship, University of Edinburgh 2003-06

• Member of the Advisory Board of The Complete Works of Voltaire 2022
• Vice-President of ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande): http://www.adeffi.ie 2016
• Member of the Digital Voltaire Advisory Group, Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford ongoing
• 'Membre ordinaire' of the committee of ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande): http://www.adeffi.ie 2011
• Secretary of ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande): http://www.adeffi.ie 2015
• Trustee - Board of Directors of Alliance française Ltd. ongoing
• President of ADEFFI (Association des études françaises et francophones d'Irlande): http://www.adeffi.ie 2019