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Publications
Books
- Ann Lewis, Sensibility, Reading and Illustration: Spectacles and Signs in Graffigny, Marivaux and Rousseau (Legenda, Main Series, 2009), 310 pp. For further information about this book, see the publisher's web site.
- Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality, ed by Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). This interdisciplinary collection of articles brings together a variety of approaches to the topic of prostitution in different national contexts in the eighteenth century. For further information about this book, see the publisher's website.
- Framed! Essays in French Studies (Peter Lang, Modern French Identities series, 2007): co-edited with three others (Lucy Bolton, Gerri Kimber and Michael Seabrook).
Articles and book chapters
- 'Classifying the Prostitute in Eighteenth-Century France' in Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012), ed. by Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis (pp.17-43), together with a co-written critical introduction to the volume (pp.1-16).
- 'Une tache ineffaçable? Restif's Representation of the Prostitute in Le Pornographe and La Paysanne pervertie', in Le Corps et ses images dans l'Europe du dix-huitième siècle: The Body and its Images in Eighteenth-Century Europe, ed. by Sabine Arnaud and Helge Jordheim (Paris: Champion, 2012), pp.49-71
- ‘Sex, Sensibility and Sociability: Illustrating La Vie de Marianne in the Eighteenth Century’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, (September 2008) 31(3): 331-375 [special issue entitled Text, Image and Contemporary Society, edited by David Adams].
- ‘Illustrations as Reactions: Three Nineteenth-Century Readings of La Nouvelle Héloïse’, SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (2007) 06: 103-132 [in The Discursive Culture: Reactions and Interaction, Text and Context, ed. by Caroline Warman and Mark Darlow].
- ‘Reading and Writing the Frame’: sole-authored introduction to Framed! Essays in French Studies (Peter Lang, 2007) pp.11-31.
- ‘Mme Riccoboni au XIXe siècle: une enquête péritextuelle’ in Mme Riccoboni: romancière, épistolière, traductrice: actes du colloque international Leuven-Antwerpen, 18-20 mai 2006, ed. by Jan Herman and Paul Pelckmans (Paris and Leuven: Éditions Peeters, ‘La République des Lettres’ series, 2007) pp.303-320.
- ‘La sensibilité dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne: expérience esthétique, modèle de la communication’, in Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: écriture et réception, ed. by Jonathan Mallinson, volume 2004:12 of SVEC Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) 367-379.
- ‘Rereading the Forbidden in La Nouvelle Héloïse’, in Reading and Writing the Forbidden: Essays in French Studies (Reading: 2001 Group, 2003) pp.45-59.
Forthcoming
- 'Figurer le texte, écrire l’illustration : texte, légende et image dans sept illustrations de La Nouvelle Héloïse', Écrire l'Illustration, ed. Joanna Augustyn (Clermont-Ferrand, in preparation)
Current projects
- Articles on: Chodowiecki's illustrations to Rousseau's Julie (especially, the function of the captions); the prostitute in Diderot's fiction.
- A full-length monograph provisionally entitled: Gender, Commerce and Crime: The Figure of the Prostitute in Eighteenth-Century France.
- I have been invited to write book reviews for the Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies (JECS) and The Modern Language Review.
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