Robert L. Dawson

Robert L. Dawson was a professor of French language and literature in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Biography

Early life

Robert L. Dawson was born on July 26, 1943, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Career

In 1975, he started teaching French at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of interest were eighteenth-century French literature and culture, the history of the book, and descriptive bibliography.
His collection of 18th century manuscripts and printed works is held in Texas by the Texas A&M University's Cushing Library.

Death

He died on June 5, 2007, in Paris, France.

Selected publications

Confiscations at Customs: Banned Books and the French Booktrade during the Last Years of the Ancien régime. Voltaire Foundation. 2006.The French Booktrade and the "permission simple" of 1777 : copyright and public domain with an edition of the permit registers. Voltaire Foundation. 1992.Additions to the bibliographies of the French prose fiction, 1618-1806. Voltaire Foundation. 1985.Baculard d'Arnaud: Life and Prose Fiction. 2 Vols. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 141-42. Voltaire Foundation. 1976.