French: Recent submissions
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Le Français médiéval par les textes: anthologie commentée. Sous la direction de Joëlle Ducos, Olivier Soutet et Jean-René Valette. (Champion Classiques; Références et dictionnaires, 11). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2016. 464 pp.
(Oxford University Press (OUP) for Society for French Studies, 8 June 2017)This review article offers an assessment of the utility of a recently-published anthology of medieval French texts, considering its value both to researchers and to students. -
Computus at court: Rauf de Lenham's 'Kalender' (1256) and the transmission of technical knowledge
(Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS), University of Leeds, 6 July 2017)This presentation, delivered as part of the 'Science at Court (I): Poesis' panel at the 2017 International Medieval Congress (Leeds), investigates Rauf de Lenham's 'Kalender' (1256) as a vehicle for the transmission of ... -
Baudelaire’s “L’Étranger” and the Limits of Mind-Reading
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1 April 2018)The position of "L'étranger" at the very beginning of Baudelaire's collection of poèmes en prose gives it the status of a frame: it establishes the terms of the reading contract. This essay reads the text as the dramatization ... -
Bussy-Rabutin's Positioning of ‘Postérité’
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 19 June 2018)This article will examine the strategic use of the term ‘postérité’ in the process of authorial self-fashioning. It will explore how Bussy-Rabutin (1618-93), the disgraced and exiled maître de camp turned mémorialiste, ... -
How to read (women in) Baudelaire's prose poems
(Modern Language Association, 1 June 2017)Baudelaire’s prose poems present particular challenges to their female readers. Where women are not associated in Le Spleen de Paris with inaccessible ideals, they tend to be presented as disappointing travesties of that ...