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David Denby was an author and a senior lecturer in French at Dublin City University. He retired in 2010.
Denby wrote Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France. The book was reviewed by Sean Quinlan in Eighteenth-Century Studies ; he wrote that "Denby's analysis encompasses beautifully crafted readings of sentimental writers such as Baculard d'Arnaud, Jean-Claude Gorgy, François Vernes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, idéologues Pierre Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy, and post-revolutionary thinkers such as Germaine de Staël." [1] The work was also reviewed in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and in Modern Language Review . [2] [3]
Books by Denby include:
Denby has also written a number of articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
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Events from the year 1669 in France
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