Talk by Daniel Desormeaux: «Alexandre Dumas et l'esthétique de la dérive romanesque»

The Canada Research Chair on the Aestheric and the Art of the Novel and the NOVANOV research team are happy to welcome Daniel Desormeaux for a guest talk on «Alexandre Dumas et l'esthétique de la dérive romanesque».

Daniel Desormeaux is William D. and Robin Mayor Professor at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). He is a specialist of Alexandre Dumas, the History of the book in the 19th Century, and of Haitian literature. He is the author of La Figure du bibliomane: histoire du livre et stratégie littéraire au 19e siècle (Nizet, 2001) and Alexandre Dumas, Fabrique d’immortalité (Classiques Garnier, 2014). He is also the editor of Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture (Classiques Garnier, 2011) and of  Frédéric Marcelin's novel: Thémistocle Épaminondas Labasterre (Société des Textes Français Modernes, 2017).