作者: Emma Wilson

Sonya Stephens is Professor of French and Acting President at Mount Holyoke College having taught previously at Indiana University, Bloomington and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French poetry and its relation to visual culture, and is currently working on questions of process and on iconicity in modern France, as well as on a study of illustrated editions of Les Fleurs du Mal. She is author of Baudelaire”s Prose Poetry: The Practice and Politics of Irony; editor of A History of Women”s Writing in France, Ebauches/Esquisses: Projects and Pre-Texts in Nineteenth-Century France; and coeditor of Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture.