Department of French

Dr Nicholas Hammond Reader in Early Modern French Theatre and Thought Department of French Postal address   Department of French Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building Sidgwick Avenue CAMBRIDGE   CB3 9DA Email   ngh20@cam.ac.uk Phone   Fax   (+44) (0)1223 335062

Nicholas Hammond specialises in seventeenth-century French thought and drama. He is the author of Playing with truth: language and the human condition in Pascal's Pensées (OUP, 1994); Creative Tensions: an introduction to seventeenth-century French Literature (Duckworth, 1997); and Fragmentary Voices: memory and education at Port-Royal (Biblio 17, 2004). He is also the editor of D'Aubignac's Quatre Dissertations contre Corneille (1996); the Cambridge Companion to Pascal (2003); and of the Duckworth series New Readings: introductions to European literature and culture. He is co-editor, with Bill Burgwinkle and Emma Wilson, of The Cambridge History of French Literature (due out in 2010). Currently he is writing a book on gossip in the seventeenth century.