Session Details

Saturday, 27 December

124. Enlightenment Myths

7:00–8:15 p.m., Pacific Suite A, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington Univ.

1. “Sur les origines mythiques de l’homme: Voltaire’s Indophilia,” Robert Cowan, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York

2. “Myth and Nature in the French Enlightenment,” Dan M. Edelstein, Stanford Univ.

3. “A Myth Enlightened: From Father to Son at the Château de Villevieille,” Melissa Wittmeier, Northwestern Univ.

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