Moral Cupidity and Lettres de cachet in Diderot's Writing

This volume explores the influence of the lettre de cachet on both Diderot's personal life and his works, beginning with an examination of Diderot's experience as recipient of two such arrest warrants, followed by an analysis of his references to these warrants in three of his fictional works.

Author: Jennifer Vanderheyden
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/07/2019
Pages: 142
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780367173739

About the Author

Jennifer Vanderheyden is an Assistant Professor of French/Francophone Studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in French Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. Author of The Function of the Dream and the Body in Diderot's Works (Peter Lang, 2004), and co-translator of Perla, an award-winning novel by Frédéric Brun (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), her research focuses on Early Modern French Studies, Gender Studies, and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.