Sara Melzer

BOOKS

From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in 17th and 18th Century France, co-edited with Kathryn Norberg (Berkeley: University of California Press Press, 1998). Introduction written by Sara E. Melzer and Kathryn Norberg.

Rebel Daughters: Women and the French Revolution, co-edited with Leslie Rabine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).Introduction written by Sara E. Melzer and Leslie W. Rabine.

Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).

ARTICLES

"Le Paradigme du Nouveau Monde dans Le Dictionnaire Universel de Furetière" (Forthcoming in Dix-Septième Siècle, ed. Hélène Merlin).

"Myths of Mixture in Phèdre and the Sun King's Assimilation Policy in the New World," L'Esprit Créateur (Summer 1998), 72-82.

"Opinion, Queen of the World: Image-Making in the Reign of the Sun King and William Jefferson Clinton" in De la Morale à l'Economie Politique, eds. Pierre Force and David Morgan. (Paris: PUF, 1996), pp. 157-66.

LECTURES/CONFERENCES

"The Underside of France's Civilizing Mission: Where Colonialism and Classicism Collide," Paper to be delivered at the North American Society for 17th Century Literature, New Orleans, April, 2000.

"Assimilating the Barbarian: The Problematic of the French Imperialist Ambition," Paper delivered at the Annual 17th Century Conference, Lexington, November 1999.

"Le colonialisme et le classicisme: L'histoire oubliée de la politique d'assimilation," Lecture given at the Sorbonne, Paris IV, May 1999.

"The Forgotten Story of the Sun King's Colonial Politics in the New World," Key Note Lecture at the University of Miami Conference on Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, February 1999

"Media-Politics of the Court Festival: Choreographing the Conflict between Classicism and Colonialism in the New World," Paper given at the Annual 17th Century Conference, Orange, October 1998.

GRANTS

ACLS Grant 1998-99

CLASSES

French 158

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