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 March 10, 2011
| Time: | 3:15-4:15 p.m. |
| Description: | Professor Patrick Coleman delivers a lecture on the theme of anger in the writing of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. From classical times into the modern age, having one's anger taken seriously was a privilege of rank. Yet, the ability to overcome anger was also a mark of prestige for those who already enjoyed social or cultural recognition. By claiming a right to indignation warranted by sensibility alone, and by dramatizing both that anger and its transcendence as a way to gain recognition for the work of a writer of low social status, Rousseau marks a key turning point in the cultural and literary history of the emotions.
Coleman is Professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently associate director of the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies. His books include "Rousseau's Political Imagination: Rule and Representation in the Lettre à d'Alembert," "Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel, 1730-1830" and "Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer" (forthcoming). Among his other works are English-language editions of Rousseau's "Confessions and Discourse on Inequality" and Benjamin Constant's "Adolphe," as well as several co-edited volumes of critical essays. |
| Location: | Garrison Hall (GAR) 4.100 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Sally K Dickson | 512-232-4311 |
| Sponsor: | Center for European Studies |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
| Categories: | Arts & Humanities, Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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