Peter France

Peter France is Professor Emeritus of French at the University of Edinburgh, the author of Politeness and Its Discontents, and the editor of The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. (June 2005)

From the Review

June 23, 2005: The Pleasure of Their Company

The Age of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Teresa Waugh

January 16, 1986: Burying the Dead

The Architecture of Death: The Transformation of the Cemetery in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Richard A. Etlin

May 28, 1981: In the Hell of Art

The Life of Aleksandr Blok Vol. I: The Distant Thunder by Avril Pyman

The Life of Aleksandr Blok Vol. II: The Release of Harmony by Avril Pyman

March 6, 1980: Translating Pasternak (letter)

October 25, 1979: Pasternak in Private

My Sister, Life and Other Poems by Boris Pasternak, edited and with texts by Olga Andreyev Carlisle, Color photographs by Inge Morath

Pasternak, A Collection of Critical Essays edited by Victor Erlich

Boris Pasternak's Translations of Shakespeare by Anna Kay France

November 23, 1978: Solving the Correggio Problem

The Paintings of Correggio by Cecil Gould

December 8, 1977: Malraux and Death

Lazarus by André Malraux, translated by Terence Kilmartin

January 22, 1976: Gazing at Death

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault, translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith

June 26, 1975: The Dominant Doctor

Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy by Owsei Temkin

November 29, 1973: Rousseau & Modern Tyranny

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. I: The Quest, 1712-1758 by Lester G. Crocker

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works, Vol. II: The Prophetic Voice, 1758-1778 by Lester G. Crocker