Professor of French Literature and Thought

Room:1.40A
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 8316
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 5400
email: m.moriarty@qmul.ac.uk

Semester 2, 2009-10

Modules taught: FRE443 Early Modern French Thought I,
and FRE468 French Foundations (block 4: Introduction to
French Thought)

Office hours: Tuesday, 12 noon-1 pm; Wed., 12 noon-1pm

Research day (not contactable by email): Thursday

Michael Moriarty’s research is chiefly on the thought and literature of the early modern period (late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). He has also published in other areas of French literature and on modern critical theory, particularly the work of Roland Barthes. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Publications

Books

• Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Roland Barthes, Key Contemporary Thinkers (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991)
• Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France, Cambridge Studies in French (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Edited journal number

• Theory and the Early Modern, Paragraph, 29/1 (March 2006), ed. Michael Moriarty and John O' Brien. Includes Michael Moriarty, 'Theory and the Early Modern: Some Notes on a Difficult Relationship', 1-11

Articles and book chapters

• 'Malebranche: le combat contre le préjugé', in'Qu'est-ce que les Lumières?' • History of art• History of ideas, SVEC 2006:12, (forthcoming December 2006), 75-85
• 'Evil Communications Corrupt Good Manners,' Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 28 (forthcoming October 2006), 173-82 [ISSN 0265 1068]
• 'Authority and How to Evade It: La Mothe Le Vayer, De la vertu des payens', in Jennifer R. Perlmutter (ed.), Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature: Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Portland State University, 6-8 mai 2004, Biblio 17, 166 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006), pp. 99-113
• 'Ideology and literature', Journal of Political Ideologies, 11/1 (February 2006), 43-60
• 'Iphigénie: histoire des oracles', in Racine et l'histoire, ed. by Marie-Claude Canova-Green and Alain Viala, Biblio 17-155 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2004), pp. 101-16
• 'The problem of freedom in Arnauld's defence of Jansenius', in Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France, ed. by Sarah Alyn Stacey and Véronique Desnain (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 103-116
• 'Images and Idols', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 25 (2003), 1-20
• 'Grace and religious belief in Pascal', in The Cambridge Companion to Pascal, ed. by Nicholas Hammond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 144-61
• 'Zizek, religion and ideology', Paragraph, 24/2 (July 2001), 125-39
• 'L'imagination chez Pascal et Malebranche', Chroniques de Port-Royal, 50 (2001), 525-39