Peter France

Portrait of 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 (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 University Press, 1982).
• Diderot, Past Masters (Oxford University Press, 1983).
• Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture, (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).

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