David Denby (academic)
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David Denby was an author and a senior lecturer in French at Dublin City University. He retired in 2010.
Reception
[edit]Denby wrote Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France. The book was reviewed by Sean Quinlan in Eighteenth-Century Studies; he wrote that "Denby's analysis encompasses beautifully crafted readings of sentimental writers such as Baculard d'Arnaud, Jean-Claude Gorgy, François Vernes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, idéologues Pierre Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy, and post-revolutionary thinkers such as Germaine de Staël."[1] The work was also reviewed in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and in Modern Language Review.[2][3]
Published works
[edit]Books by Denby include:
- Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- (joint translator of): Jacques Le Goff et Pierre Nora, Faire de l'histoire, Paris, 1974; Constructing the Past, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- (translator of) Alain Touraine et al., Solidarité, Paris, 1982: Solidarity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Denby has also written a number of articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
References
[edit]- ^ Quinlan, Sean (Winter 2004). "Sensibility and Human Science in the Enlightenment". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 37 (2): 296–301. doi:10.1353/ecs.2004.0011. S2CID 161100607. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ Jimenez, Dolores (January 1996). "Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820 (review)". Eighteenth Century Fiction. 8 (2): 301. doi:10.1353/ecf.1996.0052. S2CID 145082673.
- ^ Cook, Malcolm (October 1995). "Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820 (review)". Modern Language Review. 90 (4): 1007. doi:10.2307/3733106. JSTOR 3733106.
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