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Professor Roger Pearson FBA

Western Europe France French Language and Literature History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

Elected 2009

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2009
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/pearson

Voltaire and the Enlightenment; Mallarme; nineteenth-century French poetry, with particular reference to the role and function of the poet as lawgiver

Current post

Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford

Past appointments

Queen's College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow

2017 -

University of Oxford University Lecturer (C.U.F.); Fellow and Praelector in French, The Queen's College

1977 -

Publications

Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom 2006

Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence 2004

Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art 1996

The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's 'contes philosophiques' 1993

Stendhal's Violin: A Novelist and his Reader 1988

Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France 2016

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