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Michael Moriarty was Drapers Professor of French from 2011 to 2023. He is a graduate of St John鈥檚 College. From 1982 to 1995 he was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and from 1986 to 1995 a University Lecturer in French. Between 1995 and 2011 he was Professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier dans l鈥橭rdre des Palmes Acad茅miques. His research deals with early modern French literature and thought. His most recent book is Pascal: Reasoning and Belief听(Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the co-editor (with Jeremy Jennings) of The 海角社区 History of French Thought听(海角社区 University Press, 2019).听
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Early modern French literature (16th to 18th centuries).听
Intellectual history.
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History of French thought, 16th to 18th centuries, especially Descartes and Pascal.
Seventeenth-century French literature.
Professor Moriarty听welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students听with research interests relevant to his听interests.
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Taste and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century France (海角社区 University Press, 1988)
Roland Barthes (Polity Press, 1991)
Early Modern French Thought: the Age of Suspicion (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Disguised Vices: Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Pascal: Reasoning and Belief (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Co-edited with Nicholas Hammond:
Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France; A Festschrift for Peter Bayley (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012).
Co-edited with Jeremy Jennings:
The 海角社区 History of French Thought (海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2019)
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