Julie and her Father: Text and Image in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse led by Ann Lewis (Birkbeck)
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This session was led by Dr Ann Lewis (Department of European Cutures and Languages)
Preparatory reading
pre-circulated extracts and illustrations from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s novel, Julie; ou la nouvelle Héloïse, first published in 1761.
Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse was illustrated many times over, from its initial publication in 1761, to the latter part of the nineteenth century. With few exceptions, critics analysing the novel’s illustrations have tended to focus on the first series by Gravelot, which were commissioned and directed by Rousseau himself. Ann Lewis focussed on a particular theme within the novel: Julie’s relationship with her father. In particular, she compared the textual evocation of visual scenes dramatising this relationship, with its actualisation in the form of illustrations by various different artists (and their captions).
Dr Ann Lewis is Lecturer in French in the Department of European Cultures & Languages, School of Arts, Birkbeck. Her research and teaching interests are in the field of 18th-century French literature and culture and, in particular, the topic of sensibility, theories of reception and reader-response, and word and image relations (especially illustrations of 18th-century French fiction).
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