The First Kiss of Love
The Department of French & Italian presents a Horizons of Knowledge Lecture by
Philip Stewart
Images of Julie: From Classic to Romantic
Monday, February
25, 2008
3:30 pm
Oak Room, Indiana Memorial
Union
Intended as a sort of introduction to the study of literary illustrations, this lecture will explore a range of images of Rousseau’s great novel Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse, running from its publication in 1761 to 1852. The original series of twelve subjects was specified and detailed by Rousseau himself and drawn by Gravelot; subsequent artists sought to adapt and modify it in function of costumes and sensibilities of their own times, culminating in the visual transformation of Julie, in the first half of the nineteenth century, into a full-blown Romantic heroine.
Philip Stewart is Benjamin E. Powell Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and one of the most eminent specialists of the eighteenth-century French novel. His study of French narrative has led to the publication of Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700-1750 (1969), Le Masque et la parole: le langage de l'amour au XVIIIe siècle (1973), an edition of Prévost's Cleveland (1977), two books of critical readings entitled Rereadings: Eight Early French Novels (1984) and Half-Told Tales: Dilemmas of Meaning in Three French Novels (1987), and a study of literary illustrations entitled Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (1992). Recent projects include a translation of Rousseau’s Julie and an edition of Claude Crébillon’s Les Heureux Orphelins. Professor Stewart is a former president of the American Association of Teachers of French and a member of the Editorial Board of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.
Made possible through a grant from the Mary-Margaret Barr Koon Fund, with support from the 18th Century Studies Group and West European Studies.
If you have a disability and need assistance, accommodations can be made to meet most needs. Please call 855-5458.
