1st Edition
Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot’s Writing
By Jennifer Vanderheyden
Copyright 2019
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot’s personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot’s experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works, Le Père de famille , Jacques le fataliste and Est-il bon? Est-il méchant? . A scrutiny of... Read more
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Biography
Jennifer Vanderheyden is an Assistant Professor of French/Francophone Studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in French Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. Author of The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot’s Works (Peter Lang, 2004), and co-translator of Perla, an award-winning novel by Frédéric Brun (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), her research focuses on Early Modern French Studies, Gender Studies, and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
