Department of French Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Nicholas Hammond specialises in seventeenth-century French thought, drama, poetry and culture.
He is the author of听Playing with truth: language and the human condition in Pascal's 笔别苍蝉茅别蝉听(OUP, 1994);听Creative Tensions: an introduction to seventeenth-century French Literature听(Duckworth, 1997);听听Fragmentary Voices: memory and education at Port-Royal听(Biblio 17, 2004); and听Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715)听(Peter Lang, 2011). He is also the editor of听D'Aubignac's Quatre Dissertations contre Corneille听(1996); the听海角社区 Companion to Pascal听(2003); and of the Duckworth series听New Readings: introductions to European literature and culture. He is co-editor, with Bill Burgwinkle and Emma Wilson, of听The 海角社区 History of French Literature听(2011), and, with Michael Moriarty, of听Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in early modern France听(Peter Lang, 2012). He produced also a scholarly edition of the complete poetry of Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin (Classiques Garnier, 2012). His most recent books are听Racine's Andromaque: absences and displacements, co-edited with Joseph Harris (Brill, 2019), a monograph,听The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris (Penn State University Press, 2019), and, co-edited with Paul Hammond, Racine鈥檚 Roman Tragedies: essays on 鈥淏ritannicus鈥� and 鈥淏茅r茅nice鈥� (Brill, 2022).
He is the director of a project on 17th-century Parisian soundscapes, and the project's website,听, is devoted to transcriptions and performances of street songs.
Professor听Hammond welcomes inquiries from potential MPhil and PhD students听with research interests relevant to his听interests.
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Early Modern literature and thought, Theatre (17th century to the present), papers FR4, FR9, FR14
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- Early modern cultural history (song cultures, sound studies)
- Thought (especially Pascal and Port-Royal)听
- Theatre (especially 17th-century playwrights Racine, Corneille, Moli猫re)
- Gender and sexuality studies, poetry, prose (especially women writers S茅vign茅 and Lafayette)
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Sound in theatre, the theatre of Jean Racine, Gossip, sound worlds (see www.parisiansoundscapes.org), libertin poetry.
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Books
Playing with Truth: language and the human condition in Pascal's 笔别苍蝉茅别蝉听(Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994)
D'Aubignac, Dissertations contre Corneille, introduction and notes, edited with Michael Hawcroft,听Exeter French Texts, (Exeter, 1995)
Creative Tensions: an introduction to seventeenth-century French literature听(London: Duckworth, 1997)
The 海角社区 Companion to Pascal听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2003), editor, author of introduction (pp.1-3) and chapter on 鈥楶ascal鈥檚听笔别苍蝉茅别蝉听and the art of persuasion鈥� (pp.235-252)
Fragmentary Voices: memory and education at Port-Royal听(T眉bingen: Biblio 17, 2004)
The 海角社区 History of French Literature听(海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2011), as co-editor, co-author of introduction, pp.1-10, and author of chapter on 鈥楽eventeenth-Century Margins鈥�, pp.343-9.
Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715)听(Oxford-Bern: Peter Lang, 2011)
Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in early-modern France听(Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), as co-editor, co-author of introduction, pp. 1-5, and author of chapter, 鈥楾he Child鈥檚 Voice鈥�, pp. 163-174.
Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin,听笔辞茅蝉颈别蝉听(Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012), as editor, and author of introduction (50 pages).
Soundscapes, special number of Early Modern French Studies,听edited with Tom Hamilton (June, 2019)
Racine鈥檚 鈥淎ndromaque鈥�: absences and displacements, edited with Joseph Harris (Brill, 2019)
The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris听(Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2019)
Racine鈥檚 Roman Tragedies: essays on 鈥淏ritannicus鈥� and 鈥淏茅r茅nice鈥�, edited with Paul Hammond (Brill, 2022)
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