Rebecca Ford

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Expertise Summary

My research interests include the following areas: Enlightenment thought and literature; the Encyclopédie; eighteenth-century science and industry (especially mineralogy, mining and metallurgy); d'Holbach; Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his correspondance.

Teaching Summary

My teaching interests centre on eighteenth-century French literature and culture. I teach the second-year module 'Enlightenment Literature: An Introduction' (R12088) and the final-year module 'Peuple… read more

Research Summary

I am currently involved in preparing a new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Oeuvres completes, working with Simon Davies (QUB) on the Harmonies de la nature. I am also in the early stages of a… read more

Selected Publications

• FORD, R., 2009. Reading Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: letters and the book of nature Nottingham French Studies. 48(3), 113-124
• FORD, R., 2008. Images of the earth, images of man: the mineralogical plates of the Encyclopédie. In: LYLE, L. and MCCALLAM, D., eds., Histoires de la terre: earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 Rodopi.
• FORD, R., 2011. Common sense, common place? 'Bon sens' and the 'Encyclopédie'. In: KOOPMANS, J.W. and PETERSEN, N.H., eds., Commonplace culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: legitimation of authority Peeters. 115-130
• FORD, R., ed., 2013. Digital scholarly edition of the correspondence of Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: letters of Julie de La Berliere and Guillebon Le Pesant de Boisguilbert Electronic Enlightenment Oxford University Press.

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My teaching interests centre on eighteenth-century French literature and culture. I teach the second-year module 'Enlightenment Literature: An Introduction' (R12088) and the final-year module 'Peuple and Propaganda: Representing the French Revolution' (R13159)

Current Research

I am currently involved in preparing a new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Oeuvres completes, working with Simon Davies (QUB) on the Harmonies de la nature. I am also in the early stages of a new project exploring eighteenth-century French interest in the industrial landscape.

Past Research

My PhD thesis on the Encyclopédie looked at the place and function of mineralogy in the Encyclopédie and especially at the role of the baron d'Holbach, principal Encyclopédie contributor on mineralogy (as well as author of radical articles on religion), key materialist philosophe and translator and disseminator of much German and Swedish knowledge of mineralogy. From 2006-14 I was involved in editing the first complete edition of the correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (published online through Electronic Enlightenment).

• 2016. Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Digital scholarly edition of letters of Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis Electronic Enlightenment Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• 2015. Literary Corespondences: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mme de Genlis Nottingham French Studies. 54(2), 181-193
• REBECCA FORD, ed., 2015. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his Networks Edinburgh University Press.
• FORD, R., ed., 2013. Digital scholarly edition of the correspondence of Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Correspondence of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: letters of Julie de La Berliere and Guillebon Le Pesant de Boisguilbert Electronic Enlightenment Oxford University Press.
• 2013. The Encyclopedie in 1759: Crisis and Continuation. In: SHAUN REGAN, ed., Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth Century Britain and France Bucknell University Press.
• FORD, R., 2011. Common sense, common place? 'Bon sens' and the 'Encyclopédie'. In: KOOPMANS, J.W. and PETERSEN, N.H., eds., Commonplace culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period: legitimation of authority Peeters. 115-130
• 2010. Une correspondance amicale: Bernardin et Mesnard de Conichard. In: CATRIONA SETH and ERIC WAUTERS, eds., Autour de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Les écrits et les hommes des lumières à l'empire Presses des Universités de Rouen et du Havre.
• FORD, R., 2009. Reading Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: letters and the book of nature Nottingham French Studies. 48(3), 113-124
• FORD, R., 2008. Images of the earth, images of man: the mineralogical plates of the Encyclopédie. In: LYLE, L. and MCCALLAM, D., eds., Histoires de la terre: earth sciences and French culture 1740-1940 Rodopi.
• DAVIES, S. and FORD, R., eds., 2007. Correspondence between Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Mesnard de Conichard. ASTBURY, K. et al, eds. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Correspondence Project, Electronic Enlightenment Oxford: Oxford University Press.