About Rosemary Lloyd
Born 1949. Rosemary Lloyd is an Australian literary scholar and university teacher.
Rosemary Helen Lloyd ( Furness; born 19 September 1949) is an Australian literary scholar. She has written, edited, or translated more than a dozen books in French literature. She taught at the University of Cambridge and Indiana University Bloomington, where she was chair of the Department of French and Italian and a Rudy Professor. She is a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow and 2009 Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Biography
Rosemary Helen Lloyd was born on 19 September 1949 in Adelaide. She studied French and German at the University of Adelaide, where she became interested in 19th-century French poetry and obtained her BA in 1972 and MA in 1975. In 2002, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the still life in art and letters". She also specializes in Australian literature and arts, teaching courses on them in IU and writing articles on both fields.
Baudelaire's Literary Criticism (1981)
Mallarme: Poésies (1984)
Madame Bovary (1990)
The Land of Lost Content (1992)
Closer & Closer Apart: Jealousy in Literature (1995)
Mallarmé: The Poet and His Circle (2000)
Baudelaire's World (2002)
Shimmering in a Transformed Light: Writing the Still Life (2005)
Charles Baudelaire (2008)
Edited volumes
Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude (1986; as translator and editor)
Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarme (1988; as translator and editor)
Mallarmé, the Arts and Theory: Special Issue: Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature (1994, ed. with Gilbert D. Chaitin)
Revolutions in Writing: Readings in Nineteenth-Century French Prose (1996; as translator)
Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914 (2000; ed. with Brian Nelson)
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire (2005, as editor)
Magnificent Obsessions: Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley (2013, co-edited with Jean Fornasiero)
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Australian literary scholar
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