This project was funded in part by a CSWS grant.

Chapter 4, titled “Translation to the rescue,” includes a section on Anne Lefevre Dacier, a scholar and translator of Greek and Latin, whose work Moore researched thanks in part to a CSWS fellowship.

"Through examination of nearly sixty works, Fabienne Moore traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some 18th-century writers with the Enlightenment gave rise to the genre nearly a century before it is generally supposed to exist."

Routledge, 319 pages