
About the Author: Larry Duffy
Larry Duffy is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Kent. He is the author of Le Grand Transit Moderne: Mobility, Modernity and French Naturalist Fiction (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005) and Flaubert, Zola and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), and of numerous articles on Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Huysmans and Houellebecq, particularly in terms of these authors’ engagement with contemporary medical and scientific discourses. He is co-editor of the nineteenth-century French studies journal Dix-neuf and was co-organiser of the initial French Studies and Medical Humanities symposium at the Institute for Modern Languages Research in November 2017.
Email: W.L.Duffy@kent.ac.uk