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Dr David Culpin, Reader

Dr David J CulpinContact Details

djc3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463640
Office: Buchanan 404

Full research profile

Personal web page: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~djc3

Research and Teaching

David Culpin specializes in the literature of ideas and the history of the book in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and is also interested in the reception of early-modern French texts in anglophone colonial contexts. He has published books on La Rochefoucauld, Perrault and Marivaux, and is currently writing a monograph on French moralists and travel writers of the first half of the eighteenth century. He teaches specialist undergraduate and postgraduate courses on a wide range of topics relating to the early modern period and the Enlightenment.

PhD Supervision

Danielle Berrow, Christie Margrave

Publications

C.E. Boniface, Relation du naufrage du navire français L’Eole, sur la côte de la Caffrerie en avril 1829. : Texte édité avec Introduction et Notes par D.J. Culpin.
Culpin, D. J. 15-Jan-2013 London: Modern Humanities Research Association . (MHRA Critical Texts).
Research output : Book/Report Scholarly edition

C.E. Boniface, Narrative of the Shipwreck of the French vessel The Eole, on the coast of Caffraria in April 1829 .: Translated and edited with an introduction and notes by D.J. Culpin.
Culpin, D. J. 1-Nov-2012 Cape Town: Centre for the Book .
Research output : Book/Report Scholarly edition

Charles Perrault, Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècle; avec leurs portraits au naturel
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2003 Gunter Narr . 535 p.
Research output : Book/Report Scholarly edition

Marivaux, Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Culpin, D. J. 2000 Duckworth . 100 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

 

Charlevoix and the American Savage: The eighteenth-century traveller as moralist
Culpin, D. J. 2011 In: Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900. Delmas, A. & Penn, N. (eds.). Cape Town: UCT Press , p. 145-165. 21 p.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Marivaux's Apology for Religion
Culpin, D. J. 2006 In: Literature Criticism from 1400-1800. Schoenberg, T. J. & Trudeau, L. J. (eds.). Detroit: Thomson Gale , Vol. 123 , p. 31-42. 12 p. (Literature Criticism from 1400-1800; 123).
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

L'entrée de l'Infante: ou la poétique d'un spectateur
Culpin, D. J. 2006 In: Poetique de la pensee: Etudes sur l'age classique et le siecle philosophique, en hommage a Jean Dagen. Guion, B., Seguin, M. S., Menant, S. & Sellier, P. (eds.). Honore Champion , p. 285-297.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Raillerie, honnêteté and "les grands sujets": Cultured Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France
Culpin, D. J. 2004 In: Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Alyn-Stacey, S. & Desnain, V. (eds.). The Four Courts Press , p. 128-134.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Le Spectateur français et la littérature morale des années 1720
Culpin, D. J. 2003 In: Marivaux subversif?. Salaun, F. (ed.). Desjonquères , p. 233-247.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Le Jeu des idées et de l'imagination chez Marivaux
Culpin, D. J. 2002 In: Marivaux et l'imagination. Gevrey, F. (ed.). Editions Universitaires du Sud , p. 61-72.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

Journalisme et fiction dans le Spectateur français de Marivaux.
Culpin, D. J. 1999 In: Journalisme et fiction au XVIIIe siècle French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cook, M. & Jourdan, A. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing , p. 113-121.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

La morale mondaine de Marivaux. L'Ethique d'un romancier.
Culpin, D. J. 1996 In: Marivaux et les Lumières Presses de l'Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence. p. 183-190.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

 

Perceptions of France: French books in the early libraries of South Australia, 1848-1884
Culpin, D. J. 2009 In : French History and Civilization . 2 , p. 120-136. 17 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville.
Culpin, D. J. Oct-2006 In : Modern Language Review . 101 , p. 1118-1119. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville
Culpin, D. J. Oct-2006 In : Modern Language Review . 101 , p. 1118-1119. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Writings of youth: humanist tradition and liberty of spirit
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2006 In : French Studies . 60 , p. 108-109. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The moral tale in France and Germany 1750-1789.
Culpin, D. J. Oct-2004 In : Modern Language Review . 99 , p. 1050-1051. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

La 'Bruyere', vol 1, Brief questions of hermeneutics, vol 2, Rhetorics of discontinuousy.
Culpin, D. J. Oct-2004 In : French Studies . 58 , p. 554-554. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

''Moral Maxims' by the Duke de la Roche Foucault. Translated from the French. With notes. [London : A. Millar, 1749]'. A dual-language edition with introduction and further notes
Culpin, D. J. Jul-2004 In : Modern Language Review . 99 , p. 774-775. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Jean Benech de Cantenac: 'Satyres nouvelles', a critical edition
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2004 In : French Studies . 58 , p. 106-107. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Studies of the 'Maximes' of La Rochefoucauld
Culpin, D. J. Apr-2003 In : French Studies . 57 , p. 223-224. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

La Rochefoucauld: 'Maximes'
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2003 In : French Studies . 57 , p. 79-80. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Society, politics, law: themes of the 'Encyclopedie' by Diderot and D'Alembert
Culpin, D. J. Apr-2002 In : French Studies . 56 , p. 247-248. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The convention of amour-gout in the works of Claude Crebillon: origins and perspectives
Culpin, D. J. Apr-2002 In : French Studies . 56 , p. 245-245. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Complete works of Claude Crebillon, vol 1, a critical edition
Culpin, D. J. Apr-2002 In : French Studies . 56 , p. 244-244. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Charles-Francois Pannard and the aesthetics of "minor literature"
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2002 In : French Studies . 56 , p. 96-97. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The armorial of Calliope: the works of the Jesuit Pierre Le Moyne (1602-1671) - Literature, heraldry, spirituality
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2002 In : French Studies . 56 , p. 90-91. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Sensitivity in 18th century French literature
Culpin, D. J. Jan-2001 In : French Studies . 55 , p. 94-95. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The vocabulary of feelings in the theater of Marivaux
Culpin, D. J. Oct-1999 In : French Studies . 53 , p. 472-473. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Ethics and politics in seventeenth century France: Essay in honour of Derek A. Watts
Culpin, D. J. Jul-1999 In : French Studies . 53 , p. 327-327. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Critical moralism in French literature
Culpin, D. J. Apr-1999 In : French Studies . 53 , p. 202-202. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Cecilia's garland: Studies in honor of Cecilia Rizza
Culpin, D. J. Jan-1999 In : French Studies . 53 , p. 58-59. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Les 'Fausses confidences'
Culpin, D. J. Oct-1998 In : French Studies . 52 , p. 468-468. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

La 'Vie de Marianne'
Culpin, D. J. Oct-1998 In : French Studies . 52 , p. 468-468. 1 p.
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Man and his image: Morality and literature from Montaigne to Mandeville
Culpin, D. J. Oct-1998 In : French Studies . 52 , p. 464-464. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Perrault as Moralist: Les Hommes illustres.
Culpin, D. J. Apr-1998 In : French Studies . 52 , p. 142-151. 10 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

 

Posthumous dialogues on quietism.
Culpin, D. J. Apr-2007 In : Modern Language Review . 102 , p. 511-512. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Book/Film/Article review

 

The Exotic and the Creative Imagination in the 1690s: Charles Perrault's Les Hommes illustres
Culpin, D. J. , Maccubbin, R. (ed.) & Knellwolf, C. (ed.) 2002 Duke University Press
Research output : Other contribution

Catalogue des ouvrages du Fonds Français 1601-1850 conservés dans la Founders' Library
Culpin, D. J. 1996
Research output : Other contribution

La Rochefoucauld: Maximes, Critical Guides to French Texts
Culpin, D. J. 1995
Research output : Other contribution

Marivaux and Reason: A Study in Early Enlightenment Thought
Culpin, D. J. 1993
Research output : Other contribution