Session Details

Sunday, 09 January

774. The Enlightenment after Foucault

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 304C, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Eighteenth-Century French Literature

Presiding: Susan A. Maslan, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1. “Age Classique or Age of Enlightenment? Foucault’s Les mots et les choses and Differential Periodization,” James B. Swenson, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

2. “Family Affairs in the Wake of the Histoire de la sexualité,” Suzanne R. Pucci, Univ. of Kentucky

3. “Sovereign Address and Epistolarity: Revisiting ‘What Is an Author?,’” Elizabeth Wingrove, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

4. “Foucault and the Return of the Enlightenment,” Karlis Racevskis, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

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