Catriona Seth
Catriona Seth
Catriona Seth, Professor of Eighteenth-century French literature at the University of Lorraine (Nancy) and Associate Professor in the History Department of the Université Laval (Quebec), is a specialist in the field of Enlightenment Studies, particularly the history of literature and ideas.
Professor Seth has published widely on French literature (with an anthology of French verse) and women's history - in particular with a volume on Marie-Antoinette (2006), which includes the most complete edition of her letters to her mother, an anthology of major texts about her, from the eighteenth century to modern time, and a dictionary. Much of her recent work deals with the social history of the Enlightenment like her study Les Rois aussi en mouraient. Les Lumières en lutte contre la petite vérole (2008). The book is about the Enlightenment struggle against diseases (smallpox). Professor Seth discusses important issues of eighteenth-century society that relate to questions we still deal with today, like the duties of the state in public health, the balance between individual risk and collective good, the right of everyone to have control over his own body and the relationship of man to disease and death. The author has chosen an interdisciplinary approach, studying sources in the field of literature, philosophy, medicine, fashion, mathematics and politics.
Among the Enlightenment texts she has edited is Choderlos de Laclos' 1782 epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (2011).
Most important works of Professor Seth:
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| • | Les poètes créoles du XVIIIe siècle (Paris/Rome 1998) |
| • | Anthologie de la poésie française (Paris 2000) |
| • | André Chénier. Le miracle du siècle (Paris 2005) |
| • | Marie-Antoinette. Anthologie et dictionnaire (Paris 2006) |
| • | Les Rois aussi en mouraient. Les Lumières en lutte contre la petite vérole (Paris 2008) |
| • | Choderlos de Laclos: Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782 (modern edition, Paris 2011) |
| • | La fabrique de l'intime. Textes autobiographiques de femmes des Lumières (Paris 2013, forthcoming) |
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