David Denby (academic)

David Denby was an author and a Senior Lecturer in French at Dublin City University. He retired in 2010.

Reception

Denby wrote Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France. The book was reviewed by Sean Quinlan in Eighteenth-Century Studies; he wrote that "Denby's analysis encompasses beautifully crafted readings of sentimental writers such as Baculard d'Arnaud, Jean-Claude Gorjy, François Vernes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, idéologues Pierre Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy, and post-revolutionary thinkers such as Germaine de Staël."^[1] The work was also reviewed in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and in Modern Language Review.^[2][3]

Published works

Books by David Denby include:

• Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• (joint translator of )  : Jacques Le Goff et Pierre Nora, Faire de l'histoire, Paris, 1974; Constructing the Past, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
• (translator of) Alain Touraine et al., Solidarité, Paris, 1982: Solidarity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

He has also written a number of articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.

References

1. Quinlan, Sean (Winter 2004). "Sensibility and Human Science in the Enlightenment". Eighteenth-Century Studies 37 (2): 296–301. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
2. Jimenez, Dolores (January 1996). "Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820 (review)". Eighteenth Century Fiction 8 (2): 301. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
3. Cook, Malcolm (October 1995). "Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760-1820 (review)". Modern Language Review 90 (4): 1007. Retrieved August 23, 2014.

External links

• Official Home Page
• Publication list