Elena Russo holds a Licence \u00e8s Lettres<\/em> from the Universit\u00e9 de Gen\u00e8ve<\/em> and a PhD from Princeton University. Her interests focus on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, sociability, the history of aesthetics and criticism. Her books include Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel <\/em>(1996); La Cour et la ville de la litt\u00e9rature classique aux Lumi\u00e8res <\/em>(2002) and Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France <\/em>(2007). She is also interested in the seventeenth-century libertines and religious dissidence and has written on Giulio Cesare Vanini and Pierre Bayle. She is currently working on a book on \u00a0Diderot\u2019s approach to posterity and the transmission of his complete works.<\/p>"],"ecpt_publications":["

Elena Russo's books include Skeptical Selves: Empiricism<\/em> and Modernity in the French Novel<\/em> (1996); La Cour et la ville de la litt\u00e9rature classique aux Lumi\u00e8res <\/em>(2002) and Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\r\n

Her current book project examines the ways in which authors see time as shaping and inflecting the reception and the value of their works. The general argument is that there is a strong relationship between models of transmission of aesthetic value and models of cultural, theological and biological \"evolution.\" Among the authors featured in the book are: Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Charles Bonnet, Jean Le Rond d\u2019Alembert, Pierre-Simon Ballanche.<\/p>\r\n

Selection of Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\u201cHow to Handle the Intolerant: The Education of Pierre Bayle,\u201d Imagining Religious Toleration, 1600-1800<\/em>, 2018<\/p>\r\n

\"On Giving and Taking Offense,\" Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 47 (Forum on <\/em>Tolerance, Free Speech, and Civility from Voltaire to Charlie Hebdo<\/em>), Eve Tavor Bannet and Roxann Wheeler eds., 2018<\/p>\r\n

\"Revisiting Le Monde des salons\", Reviews in History<\/em>, January 2017 (http:\/\/www.history.ac.uk\/reviews\/review\/2041<\/a>)<\/p>\r\n

\u201cResurgences of Nero In the Enlightenment,\u201d The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero, Shadi Bartsch, Kirk Freudenburg, and Cedric Littlewood eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017, 305-317<\/p>\r\n

\"Revisiting Kechiche\u2019s L\u2019Esquive<\/em>\"\u00a0Fiction and Film for French Historians<\/p>\r\n

H-France Fiction and Film for French Historians<\/em>, vol. 6, issue 1, October 2015\u201cMarivaudages tragiques: le parall\u00e8le entre Marivaux et Racine,\u201d Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, p. 97-108 (April 2014)<\/p>\r\n

P_<\/span>asia<\/em>, persiflage, falsification: le Vanini de Voltaire,\" Romanic Review<\/em>, 103.3-4, p. 527-552 (November 2013)<\/p>\r\n

\u201cDiderot Dentelli\u00e8re: la description des arts dans l\u2019Encyclop\u00e9die,\u201d \u00a0Modern Language Notes, vol. 126, issue 4, Sept. 2011, p. 853-868<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Naked Philosophe and the Shameless Prussian: Diderot\u2019s Portrait Sitting,\u201d The Romanic Review, vol. 101, issue 4, December 2011, p. 70<\/p>\r\n

\u201c1966: Morning in Baltimore,\u201d The Romanic Review, vol. 101, issue 1-2, January-March 2010, p. 167-190<\/p>\r\n

\u201cSlander and Glory in the Republic of Letters: Diderot and Seneca Confront Rousseau\u201d Republics of Letters, May 2009, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (https:\/\/arcade.stanford.edu\/rofl\/slander-and-glory-republic-letters-diderot-and-seneca-confront-rousseau)<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Burlesque Body in Diderot\u2019s Les Bijoux indiscrets<\/em>,\u201d in The eighteenth-century body: art, history, literature, medicine<\/em>, Angelica Goodden ed., Oxford, Peter Lang, 2003<\/p>\r\n

\u201cLa coquette et le bel esprit: figures de l\u2019auteur dans Le Spectateur fran\u00e7ais,\u201d<\/em> Revue Marivaux<\/em>, Spring 2003<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Youth of Moral Life: the Virtue of the Ancients from Montesquieu to Nietzsche,\u201d Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity<\/em>, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century<\/em>, 2002: 09, 101-23.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cFrom Pr\u00e9cieuse<\/em> to mother figure: sentiment, authority and the eighteenth-century salonniere,\u201d Studies On Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century<\/em>, 2001: 12, 199-218<\/p>\r\n

\u201cA Discipline of Many Turns; Cultural Studies and Eighteenth-Century France,\u201d Studies in Early Modern France<\/em>, 2000: 6, 96-101\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cMonstrous Virtue: Montesquieu\u2019s Consid\u00e9rations sur les Romains<\/em>,\u201d Romanic Review <\/em>(2000): 90:3, p.333-351<\/p>\r\n

\u201cLibidinal Economy and Gender Trouble in Marivaux\u2019s La fausse suivante<\/em>,\u201d Modern Language Notes<\/em>, (2000): 15. 4, 690-713 (http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3251312)<\/p>\r\n

\u201cVirtuous Economies: Modernity and Noble Expenditure from Montesquieu to Caillois,\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Historical Reflections\/R\u00e9flexions Historiques<\/em> (Summer 1999): 25: 2, 251-278<\/p>\r\n

\u2014reprinted in Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History<\/em>, Daniel Gordon ed., Routledge, 2001<\/p>\r\n

\"Sociability, Cartesianism and Nostalgia in Libertine Discourse,\" Eighteenth Century Studies<\/em> (1997) 30: 4, 383-400 (http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/30053866)<\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe Self, Real and Imaginary: Social Sentiment in Marivaux and Hume\" Yale French Studies<\/em> (1997) 92, 126-48 (http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2930390)<\/p>"],"_thumbnail_id":["6141"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"_wp_old_date":["2017-08-29","2017-08-20"],"ecpt_teaching":["

Graduate:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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• Rousseau, Citizenship and Exile<\/li>\r\n
• Cultures of Criticism from the Classics to Foucault<\/li>\r\n
• Diderot, Power and Representation<\/li>\r\n
• Writers Confront Time, Posterity and Survival<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n

  Undergraduate:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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  • Style, Gender and Politics from Marie-Antoinette to the Burquini<\/li>\r\n
  • Power and Resistance: Approaches to French Political Thought<\/li>\r\n
  • Censorship in Language and Practice: from the Ancien Regime to\u00a0Democracy<\/li>\r\n
  • Libertins, Ath\u00e9es et Imposteurs<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"],"_oembed_060592ff6f5d9f74445f1bc74e0712dc":["

    Revisiting Kechiche\u2019s [L\u2019Esquive] (Games of Love and Chance)<\/a><\/blockquote>