An intellectual historian, David Lines has a varied international background, from his upbringing in Italy to his university studies in the USA (PhD in History, Harvard, 1997)
18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history
French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography
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