About this journal

Digital Enlightenment Studies (DES) is an open-access, international, peer-reviewed online scholarly journal published by the Voltaire Foundation (University of Oxford), dedicated to the application and exploration of new digital methodologies and resources for the interdisciplinary field of eighteenth-century studies.

Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023


Editorial

Editorial

Nicholas Cronk, Alison Oliver, Gillian Pink and Glenn Roe

2023-12-21 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 1–3

Foreword

Foreword

Dan Edelstein

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 4–5

Article


Digital rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz’s dream

Digital rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz’s dream

Willard McCarty

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 6–27

A Comparative text similarity analysis of the works of Bernard Mandeville

A Comparative text similarity analysis of the works of Bernard Mandeville

Yann Ryan, Ananth Mahadevan and Mikko Tolonen

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 28–58

Civic Fictions: Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution

Civic Fictions: Modelling book-reader interactions in the Age of Revolution

Alicia C. Montoya

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 59–80

Project report


Correspondances allemandes du XVIIIe siècle (Portal Der deutsche Brief im 18. Jahrhundert): une base de données

Correspondances allemandes du XVIIIe siècle (Portal Der deutsche Brief im 18. Jahrhundert): une base de données

Élisabeth Décultot

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 81–89

‘Serving other oppressed peoples’: the Radical Translations project and the extension of liberty (1789–1815)

‘Serving other oppressed peoples’: the Radical Translations project and the extension of liberty (1789–1815)

Rosa Mucignat and Sanja Perovic

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 90–100

The Intertextual Hub: a platform for intertextual studies of 18th-century France

The Intertextual Hub: a platform for intertextual studies of 18th-century France

Clovis Gladstone

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 101–128

Review


Review: Cronk N. and Roe G. 2020. Voltaire’s Correspondence: Digital Readings. Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Review: Cronk N. and Roe G. 2020. Voltaire’s Correspondence: Digital Readings. Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Gemma Tidman

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 129–132

Review: Kahn A. and Rubin-Detlev K. 2021. CatCor: Correspondence of Catherine the Great

Review: Kahn A. and Rubin-Detlev K. 2021. CatCor: Correspondence of Catherine the Great

Joana Roqué Pesquer

2023-12-22 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 2023 • 133–136