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WORK TITLE: The Other Rise of the Novel in 18th-Century French Fiction
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http://llc.richmond.edu/faculty/odelers/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-delers-31ba1418
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Born 1977.
EDUCATION:University of Michigan, Ph.D.
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Academic. University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, associate professor of French, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures chair. Has also worked as a translator, including for the U.S. Department of Justice and for a major FX firm.
WRITINGS
Contributor to academic journals, including Mélusine, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle, and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century; contributor of chapters to academic books.
SIDELIGHTS
Olivier Delers, born in 1977, is an academic and translator. He completed a Ph.D. in French from the University of Michigan. Delers eventually became an associate professor of French at the University of Richmond, where he additionally serves as chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. His academic research interests cover eighteenth-century French studies. In this field, he has published numerous articles in academic journals, including Mélusine, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle, and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century. He has also contributed chapters to academic books, including in Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis’s Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce, and Morality and in Aphrodite Sivetidou and Maria Litsardaki’s Roman et théâtre: Une rencontre intergénérique dans la littérature française. Delers has also worked as a translator of documents from English to French and French to English, with a specialty in legal and financial translations but with experience working with translations of technical documents, CVs, academic papers, and medical articles.
Delers published his first book, The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, in 2015. The account serves as a study of the modern novel and offers an alternative to the works on the study of the novel by Ian Watt. His proposed analysis and theoretical framework come from what he terms literary anthropology, which draws from a variety of disciplines, such as historiography, literary theory, economic sociology, and science studies with an emphasis on the economic behavior of the protagonists in the novels. Delers focuses his study on six French novels from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Le Roman bourgeois, La Princesse de Cleves, Manon Lescaut, Julie, Lettres dune Peruvienne, and Justine. He uses these novels as the basis for his argument that the characters are creating alternative economies that are unrealistic, in that they are utopian, dystopian, or idiosyncratic. This is counter to the tradition where modern economic transactions are mapped in the real world. These alternative economies are primarily set up by female characters in the novels and are aimed at forming a social structure where an authentic self-identity can be realized. Reviewing the book in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, G. DeLeonibus “recommended” the account, pointing out that “this is not a definitive history of the realistic novel, nor does Delers purport it to be.”
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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, April 1, 2016, G. DeLeonibus, review of The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, p. 1172.
ONLINE
Elance, https://www.elance.com/ (March 16, 2017), author profile.
University of Richmond Web site, http://llc.richmond.edu/ (March 16, 2017), author profile.
Dr. Olivier Delers
Associate Professor of French
Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Books
The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction, University of Delaware Press, 2015.
Articles
“Whimsical Pornography: Albert Dubout’s Illustrations for Sade’s Justine,” accepted for publication in New Perspectives on the Eighteenth-Century.
“Du mythe au dialogue: Sade et l’érotisme surréaliste,” Mélusine, XXV, 2015.
“The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade’s Juliette and the New Spirit of Capitalism,” in Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce, and Morality, eds. Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis, London, Pickering and Chatto, 2011, 127-139.
“A la recherche du ‘bourgeois’: drame sérieux et tentations narratives chez Diderot,” in Roman et théâtre: Une rencontre intergénérique dans la littérature française, eds. Aphrodite Sivetidou and Maria Litsardaki, Paris, Editions Classique Garnier, 2010, 309-324.
“‘Mais où est le cul?’ Life and Form in Sade’s Les Infortunes de la vertu et La Nouvelle Justine,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 22, 4, Summer 2010, 657-672.
“La socialité en chaîne et en réseau dans les Egarements du cœur et de l’esprit de Crébillon fils,” Revue Dix-Huitième Siècle, 41, 2009, 249-264.
“Reconnaissance et reconnaissance de dette dans Histoire d'Ernestine de Marie Riccoboni,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth-Century, 12, 2006, 275-281.
Reviews
Emeline Mossé, “Le langage de l’implicite dans l’œuvre de Crébillon fils,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 24, 1, Fall 2011, 148-150.
Additional Publications
“Don, obligation et reconnaissance dans les Lettres d’une Péruvienne de Graffigny,” COnTEXTES [Online], no.5, May 2009
I have more than 15 years experience translating documents from French to English and English to French. I have a PhD in French and near-native fluency in English (writing samples available on request). I specialize in legal and financial translation (I have worked for the US Department of Justice and for a major FX firm) but I have also translated technical documents, CVs, academic papers, and medical articles. Quick, efficient, and focused on quality.
Delers, Olivier. The other rise of the novel in eighteenthcentury
French fiction
G. DeLeonibus
CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
53.8 (Apr. 2016): p1172.
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Delers (Univ. of Richmond) positions his account of the rise of the modern novel as an alternative to the account of Ian Watt and other social
theorists for whom, as Delers writes in the introduction, "the novel is the literary vehicle best equipped to convey through its characters and
storylines the perfect rationality of homo economicus." Looking at six French novels of the 17th and 18 th centuries (Le Roman bourgeois, La
Princesse de Cleves, Manon Lescaut, Julie, Lettres dune Peruvienne, and Justine), the author argues that rather than map the progress of modern
economic transactions in the "real" world, the novels portray characters who develop alternative economies that are increasingly unrealistic--
idiosyncratic, utopian, or dystopian. Initiated largely by female characters, these alternative economies seek to create a social structure in which
an authentic sense of self can be reclaimed. Delers supports his analysis by using what he calls literary anthropology, a methodology that draws
from historiography, economic sociology, science studies, and literary theory, yet remains grounded in a close reading of the economic behavior
of the main characters of the novels. This is not a definitive history of the realistic novel, nor does Delers purport it to be. Summing Up: **
Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.--G. DeLeonibus, Willamette University
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