Session Details

Monday, 27 December

22. Critique and Criticism

5:15–6:30 p.m., Tubman, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Downing A. Thomas, Univ. of Iowa

1. “Literary Authority in the Book Trade: Voltaire and Rousseau React to Their Publishers’ Mistakes,” Geoffrey Turnovsky, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

2. “L’apothéose de l’entreglose: L’essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron de Diderot,” Laurence Mall, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Against Common Sense: Rousseau’s Self-Critique,” Natasha Lee, Bryn Mawr Coll.

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