Peter France
Peter France, FBA, FRSE (born 1935) is a British scholar of French literature and retired academic. He was Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh from 1980 to 1990. After completing a BA and DPhil at Magdalen College, Oxford, he was appointed a lecturer in French at the University of Sussex in 1963; he was eventually promoted to a readership, before he moved in 1980 to the University of Edinburgh to take up the professorship. He left the chair in 1990 and then spent ten years as a University Endowment Fellow before retiring in 2000.[1]
Honours and awards
In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and served on the Academy's council from 1992 to 1995;[2] in 2003, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3]
Publications
France was joint editor of the Oxford History of Literary Translation in English (5 volumes, 2005–10). His other publications include:[4]
- Racine's Rhetoric (Clarendon Press, 1965).
- Rhetoric and Truth in France (Clarendon Press, 1972).
- Poets of Modern Russia, Cambridge Studies in Modern Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
- Diderot, Past Masters (Oxford University Press, 1983).
- Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture, Cambridge Studies in French (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
- (Editor) The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French (Oxford University Press, 1995).
- (Editor) The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation (Oxford University Press, 2000).
- (Co-editor with William St Clair) Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography (Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002).
References
- "France, Prof. Peter", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- "Professor Peter France FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- "Professor Peter France FBA FRSE", Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- "Peter France", University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 September 2019.