Dr Jonathan Carson

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3641

Email

jsoc@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 309

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Monday 2-4, or by appointment

 

Research areas

Seventeenth-century French literature and society; more specifically Paul Scarron, the development of the theatre, relationship between theatre and state; development of the novel in seventeenth-century France. Broader interests include the theatre from seventeenth century to the present, especially in the Romantic period. Text editing.

Selected publications

• «Vous pour porter des fers, elle pour en donner» : prisoners in Seventeenth Century French tragedy

  Carson, J. S. O., 2014, (In preparation) In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Paul Scarron: Théâtre complet (Tome II): First complete edition of all of Scarron's 5 Act plays, plus fragments, in over 250 years in two volumes. Forensic bibliography has produced revised bibliographical histories of at least two of the plays (see article "The text etc."). Critical apparatus includes 150-page introduction, plus substantial analysis before each play of Spanish source texts and adaptation thereof. Texts are fully annotated.

  Carson, J. S. O., 2013, Geneva: Droz. 885 p. (Textes Littéraires Français)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Paul Scarron: Théâtre complet (Tome Premier): First complete edition of all of Scarron's 5 Act plays, plus fragments, in over 250 years in two volumes. Forensic bibliography has produced revised bibliographical histories of at least two of the plays. Critical apparatus includes 150-page introduction, plus substantial analysis before each play of Spanish source texts and adaptation thereof. Texts are fully annotated.

  Carson, J. S. O., 2013, Geneva: Droz. 889 p. (Textes Littéraires Français)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Rewriting Roman History: Thomas Corneille’s La Mort de l’empereur Commode

  Carson, J. S. O., Jan 2013, In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 40, 78

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Unreal unrealities : prison as locus in Seventeenth Century French comic and tragicomic theatre

  Carson, J. S. O., 2013, (In preparation) In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The text, the whole text and nothing but the text: editing Paul Scarron's theatre

  Carson, J. S. O., 2005, In: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 32, 63, p. 597-616

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Burlesque erudition: oxymoron or tautology? The example of Paul Scarron

  Carson, J. S. O., Jan 2004, In: Seventeenth-Century French Studies. 26, 1, p. 85-96

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Review of Thomas Corneille, Le Festin de Pierre

  Carson, J. S. O., 2002

  Research output: Other contribution

• Thomas Corneille: Le 'Festin de Pierre'

  Carson, J., Apr 2002, In: French Studies. 56, p. 238-239 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Women in Scarron's Theatre: the Good, the Bad and the Independent

  Carson, J. S. O., May 2001, p. 17. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

 

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