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Thomas M. Kavanagh Professor of French Professor Kavanagh works in the areas of 18th-century literature and culture, film studies, narrative, and the cultural history of gambling. His publications include The Vacant Mirror: A Study of Mimesis Through Diderot's Jacques le fataliste (1972), Writing the Truth: Authority and Desire in Rousseau (1987), The Limits of Theory (1989), Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance (1993), Chance, Culture, and the Literary Text (1994), and Esthetics of the Moment (1997). He is currently working on a book-length study of the representation of chance and gambling within French culture from the Middle Ages to the present. |
