Mary Ellen BirkettMary Ellen Birkett is professor of French studies at Smith College. Her publications touch on Desbordes-Valmore, Fontenelle, Hugo, Lamartine, Nodier, Rousseau, Sainte-Beuve, Sand, Senancour, Stendhal, and Vigny. She is coeditor of Religious Tolerace and Intolerance in Ancient and Modern Worlds and author of Lamartine and the Poetics of Landscape. Read More Read Less