ABSTRACT
A personal tribute to a much-valued colleague and friend including particular reference to the finalizing of work on her edition of Édouard de Tocqueville, Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et en Irlande.
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1 The proceedings were published. See Finke, ed. (Citation1972).
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Roger Little
Roger Little retired in 1998 from the Trinity College Dublin 1776 Chair in French, the oldest in the world. A specialist of French-language poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (after a thesis on Saint-John Perse, defended in 1970, he published The Shaping of Modern French Poetry: Reflections on Unrhymed Poetic Form 1840–1990 as well as works on Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Saint-John Perse, André Frénaud and Lorand Gaspar) and on the representation of race in French-language writing from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (Nègres blancs: représentations de l’autre autre; Between Totem and Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic Literature; and various new editions). He also directed the London series ‘Critical Guides to French Texts’ and ‘Research Bibliographies & Checklists’. He continues to direct the collection ‘Autrement Mêmes’ for l’Harmattan (https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=collection&no=239).