| Philip Stewart received his PhD from Yale. 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 siécle (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. Education:
- PhD Yale University, 1967
- Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Yale University, 1962
Research Interests:
17th- and 18th-Century French Narrative, Intellectual History, Literature and Art Recent Publications (More Publications)
- P. Stewart. "Réflexions sur le cas de Robert Challe: d’écrivain du roi à homme de lettre." Le Pauvre Diable: destins de l’homme de lettres au XVIIIe siècle Ed. Henri Duranton. Université de Saint-Étienne, 2006, 109-119.
- with S. Genand. "Cleveland" d'Antoine Prévost d'Exiles. Clefs Concours Paris: Atlande, 2006: 220.
- P. Stewart. "Le devoir d’intervention: points, virgules, etc., dans les "Lettres persanes"." Montesquieu en 2005 Ed. Catherine Volpilhac. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2005, 47–72.
- P. Stewart. "L’illustration du roman au XVIIIe siècle." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2005:10 (2005): 223– 233.
- P. Stewart. "L’illustration du roman au XVIIIe siècle." Ed. Jonathan Mallinson. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth CenturyVoltaire Foundation, 2005, 223-33.
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