Professor Michel Jeanneret~ "Littérature et dissidence. L’érotisme au XVIIe siècle."

Lecturer: Professor Michel Jeanneret

Title: Littérature et dissidence. L’érotisme au XVIIe siècle.

Location: Room 159 Van Hise

Time: 12:05pm-12:55pm

Bio: 

Professor Jeanneret is one of the most illustrious literary and cultural historians of our times, and a representative of the famous “School of Geneva,” after critics such as Jean Rousset or Jean Starobinski. His books pertain mostly to early modernity (especially 16^th and 17^th centuries), as well as to Romanticism. They include, among others: La scrittura romantica della follia  (1984); A Feast of Words. Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance (1991); Perpetual motion. Transforming Shapes in the Renaissance from da Vinci to Montaigne (2001), Eros rebelle. Littérature et dissidence à l’âge classique (2003), etc.