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Masano Yamashita started the topic Appointment to Executive Committee LLC 18th-century French in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year agoPlease consider nominating yourself or a colleague for the opening seat on the LLC French 18th-century Forum Executive Committee. The MLA is shifting away from elections toward an appointment model. This means that nominations from the membership are more important than ever. Please email your suggestions to masano.yamashita@colorado.edu by…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Annelle Curulla started the topic Call for Papers: L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>L’Esprit Créateur 62.2 (Summer 2022)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Replaying the Francophone Early Modern in the Twenty-First Century</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Editors: Annelle Curulla (Scripps College) and Michael Meere (Wesleyan Un…[Read more] -
Annelle Curulla started the topic Publication Announcement: Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago‘Staging Justice in Early Modern France’ Special Issue of Early Modern French Studies 42.2 (2020)
Guest edited by Valérie M. Dionne and Michael Meere
Dedicated to the memory of Christian Biet
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yemf20/42/2?nav=tocList
Contents:
In Memoriam—Christian Biet (1952-2020) Michael Meere
Introduction: Staging J…[Read more]
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Faycal Falaky started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic 17th-Century French Forum CFPs for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please find below the 17th-century French Forum´s calls for papers for MLA Toronto 2021.
Best wishes,
Toby WikströmBeyond Paris
Decentering Paris in seventeenth-century studies. How are cities and regions throughout early modern France written, pictured, performed, or practiced? How do these locations imagine or position t…[Read more]
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Masano Yamashita started the topic MLA French 18th-century Forum Dinner in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoDear Fellow Dix-Huitiémistes,
The MLA 18th-Century French Forum will be hosting a dinner in Seattle on Friday January 10, 2020 during the MLA convention. We would be delighted if you could join us!If you are interested in attending, please contact me with the subject heading—”MLA DINNER”—at masano.yamashita@colorado.edu.
I anticipate the cost…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice (ASECS 2020) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoASECS 2020 CFP
Marivaux: Nature vs. Artifice
In conjunction with a performance of Pierre de Marivaux’s Le Triomphe de l’amour at the 2020 meeting of ASECS, this panel will address the tension between nature and artifice in Marivaux’s work. We are particularly interested in proposals on Le Triomphe de l’amour, but also welcome proposals ref…[Read more]
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Melanie Conroy deposited Visualizing the French Enlightenment Network Using Palladio in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoVisualization tools can allow academics to produce their own diagrams without necessarily hiring a designer. I will walk through some examples of diagrams produced in Palladio, a digital humanities package developed in the Humanities + Design Lab at Stanford University. Palladio lends itself to qualitative studies because the visualizations that…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: MLA Seattle 2020 | LLC 18th-Century French Forum in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoFailure / Échec
This panel considers descriptions, discourses and aesthetics of failure in eighteenth-century France. Please submit title and 250-word abstract in French or English by March 15, 2019 to ffalaky@tulane.edu.
Distances/ Eloignements
This panel explores understandings of distance (moral, epistemological, aesthetic, historical,…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic Voting for Forum Executive Committee and Nomination Process (LLC 18th-C. French) in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month agoPlease do not forget to vote for the next delegate (executive committee member) for the LLC 18th-Century French forum.
Our two candidates this year are Yann ROBERT and Tracy RUTLER. The deadline is very close: December 10. Here is the link: https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections
The Executive Committee is seeking nomination proposals…[Read more]
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Masano Yamashita started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoCall for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SEFCS Panel 1 : Diversities, Differences, in the discussion
Eighteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoSEFCS Panel 1 : Proposal for SECFS/ASECS 2019:
Diversities, Differences, and Dilemmas
Historically, writers, social critics, artists, poets and philosophers are often on the margins of society working from the position of observer. Although their methods and vocabulary often seem to push opposing agendas, one thing that modern day ph…[Read more]
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Annelle Curulla started the topic CFP: SECFS Panel 2: Analogy/Analogie in the discussion
Eighteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoSECFS Panel 2:
Analogy/Analogie
Universal, discursive, or instrumental, “analogy” took many forms during the Enlightenment. While defending the use of analogical reasoning, Dumarsais deplored the lack of rigor in many of its applications. In some instances, the trope seduces, or expands the cognitive abilities of the understanding; in others, it…[Read more]
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Glenn Roe deposited A Sheep in Wolff’s Clothing: Émilie du Châtelet and the Encyclopédie in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the use of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique as both an acknowledged and unacknowledged source for the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, and argues for Du Châtelet’s inclusion as a full participant in the philosophical conversations the Encyclopédie enacts. Widely considered a minor voice who entered the…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Manuscript of Claude Dupin’s Commentary on Montesquieu’s ‘Esprit des lois’ in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoClaude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’ in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author; and Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes, published before 1755 and also suppressed.…[Read more]
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Pauline Kra deposited The Role of China in Montesquieu’s “Esprit des lois” in the group
LLC 18th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoMontesquieu’s ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu’s fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters…[Read more]
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