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Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle

Emeritus Professor

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
p.cryle@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 51063

Overview

Professor Peter Cryle’s research interests include representations of psycho-sexual pathology in popular and middle-brow French fiction of the fin-de-siècle. He also has a strong interest in the literature of libertine enlightenment in French.

BA (Queensland), MA (Queensland), DU (Nice)

Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, FAHA

Peter Cryle is the author of Bilan Critique : "L'Exil et le royaume" d'Albert Camus. Essai d'analyse (Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1973); Roger Martin du Gard, ou De l'intégrité de l'être à l'intégrité du roman (Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1984); The Thematics of Commitment: The Tower and the Plain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); Geometry in the Boudoir: Shifting Positions in Classical French Erotic Narrative (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994); The Telling of the Act: Eroticism as Narrative in French Fiction of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Delaware: Delaware University Press, 2001); La Crise du plaisir, 1740-1830 (Lille: Septentrion, 2003). He is co-editor, with Lisa O'Connell, of Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (London: Palgrave, 2003).

Recent articles and book chapters include "Etat présent de la critique sadienne", Dix-Huitième Siècle, 31, 1999, 507-524; "Beyond the Canonical Sade", Paragraph, Vol. XXIII, 1, March 2000, 15-25; "Making Room for Women in Pornographic Writing of the Early Nineteenth Century: Entre chien et loup, by Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse", in Lloyd and Nelson (eds) Women Seeking Expression, Monash, Monash Romance Studies, 2001, 11-23; "Petite-maîtrise: The Ethics of Libertine Foppery", Esprit Créateur, 2003, and "Le Marbre féminin", Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2003.

He is currently preparing a book on representations of psycho-sexual pathology in popular and middle-brow French fiction of the fin-de-siècle, tentatively entitled The Pathological Unknown.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of Academy of Humanities
  • Doctorat De L'Universite, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
  • Master of Arts, The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), The University of Queensland

Publications

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Grants

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Supervision

  • Mimesis: mimesis

    Master Philosophy

  • Sexual Science, Medicine, and Healthy Ageing in Historical Perspective (c. 1880-1970)

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Child sexual abuse perpetrated by women: a genealogical approach to the constitution of an unthinkable crime

    Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Anachronistic Readings of Eighteenth-Century Libertinage in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France

    Cryle, Peter (2015). Anachronistic Readings of Eighteenth-Century Libertinage in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France. In Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands (Ed.), Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (pp. 65-85) Oxford, London: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199660513.001.0001

  • Translation as lexical invention: an intellectual history of frigiditas and anaphrodisia

    Cryle, Peter (2015). Translation as lexical invention: an intellectual history of frigiditas and anaphrodisia. In Heike Bauer (Ed.), Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World (pp. 19-36) Philadelphia, PA, United States: Temple University Press.

  • Fairytale humanity in French libertine fiction of the mid-eighteenth century

    Cryle, Peter (2013). Fairytale humanity in French libertine fiction of the mid-eighteenth century. In Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys and Shino Konishi (Ed.), Representing humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (pp. 161-172) London, United Kingdom: Pickering & Chatto Publishers.

  • Humanities research agendas in Australia since 1969: literary and textual studies

    Cryle, Peter (2012). Humanities research agendas in Australia since 1969: literary and textual studies. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Ed.), Taking stock: the humanities in Australian life since 1968 (pp. 46-52) Perth, WA, Australia: University of Western Australia Press.

  • On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in eighteenth-century France

    Cryle, Peter (2011). On the unsteadiness of sexual truth in eighteenth-century France. In Kate Fisher and Sarah Toulalan (Ed.), Bodies, sex and desire from the renaissance to the present (pp. 168-180) Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Introduction: The Makings of a Central Problem

    Cryle, P. M. and Forth, C. E. (2008). Introduction: The Makings of a Central Problem. In Cryle, P. M. and Forth, C. E. (Ed.), Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Making of a "Central Problem" (pp. 9-22) Newark, Delaware, USA: University of Delaware Press.

  • The Aesthetics of the Spasm

    Cryle, P. M. (2008). The Aesthetics of the Spasm. In Cryle, P. M. and Forth, C. E. (Ed.), Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a "Central Problem" (pp. 77-92) Newark, Delaware, USA: University of Delaware Press.

  • Dorat

    Cryle, P. M. (2005). Dorat. In Patrick Wald Lasowski (Ed.), Romanciers libertins du dix-huitieme siecle, Vol II (pp. 1451-1476) Paris, France: Gallimard.

  • Codified indulgence: The niceties of libertine ethics in Casanova and his contemporaries.

    Cryle, P. M. (2004). Codified indulgence: The niceties of libertine ethics in Casanova and his contemporaries.. In P. Cryle and L. O'Connell (Ed.), Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century. (pp. 48-60) Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century

    Cryle, P. M. and O'Connell, L. M. (2004). Sex, liberty and licence in the eighteenth century. In Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell (Ed.), Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (pp. 1-14) Basingstoke, England ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Producing the voice in erotic narrative

    Cryle, P. M. (2001). Producing the voice in erotic narrative. In B. Nelson, A. Freadman and P. Anderson (Ed.), Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative, and Performance (pp. 97-133) Newark: University of Delaware Press.

  • The Kama Sutra as curriculum

    Cryle, P. M. (2000). The Kama Sutra as curriculum. In C. O'Farrell, D. Meadmore, E. McWilliam and C. Symes (Ed.), Taught Bodies (pp. 17-25) New York: Peter Lang.

  • Nouvelles, aspects thematiques

    Cryle, P. M. (1999). Nouvelles, aspects thematiques. In Raymond Gay-Crosier (Ed.), Albert Camus 18: La reception de l'oeuvre de Camus en U.R.S.S. et en R.D.A. (pp. 160-165) Paris: Lettres modernes minard.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Le savoir-lire libertin

    Cryle, Peter (2004). Le savoir-lire libertin. In: Jean-Francois Perrin and Philip Stewart, Du Genre Libertin Au Xviiie Siècle: Actes Du Colloque International La Littérature 'Libertine' au XVIIIe Siècle : Existe-t-il un Genre Libertin ?. La Litterature 'Libertine' au XVIIIe Siecle: Existe-t-il un Genre Libertin?, Grenoble, France, (29-38). 26-28 September 2002.

  • Detouring via the other: Representations of Frenchness in some Australian advertisements

    Cryle, P. M. (2001). Detouring via the other: Representations of Frenchness in some Australian advertisements. In: D. Killick, M. Parry and A. Phipps, Poetics and Praxis of Languages and Intercultural Communication. Mapping the Territory, Leeds/Leeds Metropoligan University, (235-243). December 1999.

Other Outputs

  • Aphrodisiacs

    Cryle, P. M. (2006) Aphrodisiacs in G. Brulotte and J. Phillips (eds.) Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge

  • Choiseul-Meuse, Felicite de

    Cryle, P. M. (2006) Choiseul-Meuse, Felicite de in Gaetan Brulotte and John Phillips (eds.) Encyclopedia of erotic literature. New York: Routledge

  • Mannoury d'Ectot, Marquise de

    Cryle, P. M. (2006) Mannoury d'Ectot, Marquise de in G. Brulotte and J. Phillips (eds.) Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Mimesis: mimesis

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Sexual Science, Medicine, and Healthy Ageing in Historical Perspective (c. 1880-1970)

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Child sexual abuse perpetrated by women: a genealogical approach to the constitution of an unthinkable crime

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

  • Fluid boundaries: Hypnotism as science in late nineteenth-century France

    (2016) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Marquis de Sade's Philosophical 'System' in its Enlightenment Context

    (2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Literary canonicity and postcolonial writings: the discursive problematic of emerging fields.

    (2013) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Utterances and uptakes: accounts of speech as action and the description of discursive events

    (2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • ROUSSEAU'S RHETORIC OF HAPPINESS IN JULIE, OU LA NOUVELLE HELOISE

    (2007) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • REPRESENTATION OF FRANCE AND FRENCHNESS: FROM THE MEDIA TO TEACHING PRACTICE

    (2004) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • SECULARISING THE VEIL: A STUDY OF LEGAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES ARISING FROM THE WEARING OF THE ISLAMIC HEADSCARF IN THE AFFAIR DU FOULARD IN FRANCE

    (2004) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • IN THE MARGINS OF LITERATURE: FRENCH 'EXISTENTIALIST' FICTION, FRENCH LITERARY HISTORY AND LITERARY MODERNISM

    (2002) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Casanova's Celebrity: a Case Study of Well-knownness in 18th-century Europe

    (2015) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Male Rape and the Government of Bodies: An Unatural History of the Present

    (2005) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • GENDER AND GENRE: FRENCH WOMEN'S DIARIES FROM THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

    (2002) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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