Harriet Stone
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Chair, Committee on Comparative Literature
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Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures (French); Comparative Literature
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Books
Tables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006. Examines how Dutch art, with its emphasis on the realistic depiction of objects, informs science's efforts to know the world in the 17th century.
Co-Trans., with Gerhild Scholz Williams. On the Inconstancy of Witches. By Pierre de Lancre. 1612. Tempe: Arizona Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006.
Articles
"Chaque médaille a son revers: deux faces de la critique dix-septiémiste" ["Two Ends to the Middle: Opposite Sides of Seventeenth-Century Literary Criticism"]. La littérature, le XVIIe siècle et nous: dialogue transatlantique. Ed. Hélène Merlin-Kajman. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009. 293-300. An analysis of significant differences in American and French scholarship in seventeenth-century French Studies.
"Bearing Witness to the Light: Descartes and Vermeer." Intersections: Actes de Dartmouth. Ed. Faith Beasley and Kathleen Wine. Papers in French Seventeenth-Century Literature. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2005. 169-82. Studies the notions of truth, insight, and observation in the French philosopher and the Dutch artist.
