Marie-Hélène Huet

Marie-Hélène Jacqueline Huet (born 30 January 1944) is a French literary scholar. A 1987 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written several books - including Rehearsing the Revolution: The Staging of Marat’s Death, 1793-1797, Monstrous Imagination (1993), Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (1997), and The Culture of Disaster (2012) - as well as a few critical editions of Jules Verne novels. She was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Amherst College, and Princeton University, the last of where she was M. Taylor Pyne Professor of French and Italian.

Biography Marie-Hélène Jacqueline Huet was born on 30 January 1944 in Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde. She studied at the University of Bordeaux, where she obtained her licence ès lettres in 1964 and her doctorat de troisième cycle in 1968. In 1987, Works L'Histoire des Voyages Extraordinaires: Essai sur l'Oeuvre de Jules Verne (1973) Les Héros et Son Double: Essai sur le Roman d'Ascension Sociale au XVIIIe Siècle (1975) Rehearsing the Revolution: The Staging of Marat’s Death, 1793-1797 (1982) Monstrous Imagination (1993) Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution (1997) The Culture of Disaster (2012) (ed. by ) Les Enfants du capitaine Grant – vingt mille lieues sous les mers (2012) (ed. by Steinmetz) Voyage au centre de la terre et autres romans (2016)