Department of French

Department of French

   

Mark Darlow specialises in eighteenth-century French theatre and music (especially opéra comique), Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and the culture of the Revolutionary period. He is editor of Revolutionary Culture: Continuity and Change (Nottingham French Studies, 2006) and has co-edited, with Dr Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford), The Discursive Culture: Action and Interaction, text and context (Oxford, 2007). He is author of Maîtres et valets en France au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1999), Nicolas-Etienne Framery and lyric theatre in eighteenth-century France (Oxford, 2003), Cultural Politics and the Opéra de Paris, 1789-1794 (OUP, forthcoming 2011), and Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: the Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes (in preparation). He has also recently completed a critical edition of Laya's L'Ami des lois (with Yann Robert, Princeton University: forthcoming with the MHRA, 2011). Current projects include a monograph on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a collaborative volume on the concept of chiaroscuro in early-modern France and Italy, and editions of Sedaine's Raoul, Barbe-bleue and Guillaume Tell (Classiques Garnier).

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