Delacroix's Liberty

 
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Publications on French Political Thought

The Confessions, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, co-editor [and co-translator], in The Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Vol. V (Hanover, New Hampshire: University Presses of New England, 1995; paperback edition, 1998).

"Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Rousseau's Thought," EMF (special issue on French Utopias, 1500-1800) 5 (1999), pp. 60-77.

"The Harem Sequence in Montesquieu's Persian Letters: A Critique of Political and Familial Despotism," with Mary Lyndon Shanley, in Jean Elshtain, ed., The Family in Political Thought (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), pp. 66-79.

"The Eldorado Episode in Voltaire's Candide," with Mary Lyndon Shanley, Eighteenth-Century Life, VI, nos. 2-3 (January-May 1981), pp. 79-92.

I also have unpublished drafts of potential articles on Rabelais and Diderot.

I also gave a talk on "Translating Rousseau" at a panel on translation entitled "From the Strange to the Familiar: Translation, Transformation, Transculturation," Vassar College, 9 November 1993.