Reginald J Mcginnis

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• Mcginnis, R. J. (2022). Mock Ritual in the Modern Era. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2021). Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press.
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  Volume of collected essays, co-edited and with an introduction in collaboration with Fayçal Falaky
• McGinnis, R. (2013). Originality and intellectual property in the French and English enlightenment. Taylor and Francis. doi:10.4324/9780203708064
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  Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legal debate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridging what are usually perceived as two distinct areas of inquiry, this interdisciplinary volume begins with a reflection on the “origins” of literary and legal questions in the Enlightenment to consider their ramifications in the post-Enlightenment and contemporary world. Tying in to the growing scholarly interest in connections between law and literature, on the one hand, and to the contemporary interrogation of “originality” and “authorship,” on the other hand, the present volume furthers research in the field by providing a dense study of the legal and historical context to re-examine our current assumptions about supposed earlier Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of individual authorship and originality.

Chapters

• McGinnis, R. (2013). Language and Literature, French. In Encyclopedia of sciences and religions(pp p.1128-1135). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands: Springer Science+Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_1407
• McGinnis, R. (1998). SAND AND BAUDELAIRE: THE POLITICS OF CHARITY. In Le siècle de George Sand(pp p. 281-291). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.

Journals/Publications

• McGinnis, R. (2023). Traduction et appropriation dans l’Encyclopédie, ou nouvelle apologie de l’abbé Mallet. Lumen, 41, 67-87. doi:10.7202/1106820ar
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2021). MODERNIDADE E FEITIÇARIA: BAUDELAIRE, LEITOR DO SÉCULO XVIII. Revista Triplov, Série Viridae 03, unpaginated.
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2021). SAND E BAUDELAIRE: A POLÍTICA DA CARIDADE. Revista Triplov, Série Viridae 03, unpaginated.
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2018). The Ambivalence of Mockery. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 47, 257-260.
• McGinnis, R. (2017). From theology to the "conspiracy of impiety": The Abbé Mallet and the beginnings of the Encyclopedia. Etudes Theologiques et Religieuses, 92(4). doi:10.3917/etr.924.0735
• McGinnis, R. (2012). The mystery of Ernelinde. Eighteenth-Century Music, 9(1). doi:10.1017/S1478570611000327
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  François-André Danican Philidor's Ernelinde was one of the most famous French operas of the late eighteenth century. A subject of great controversy when it was first performed in 1767, the history of its reception has been obscured by judgments rooted more in the politics of the French literary world than in the work itself. The opera is shown in a new light by reconsidering Philidor's librettist, Antoine-Henri Poinsinet. © 2012 Cambridge University Press.
• Feenberg-Dibon, A., & Mcginnis, R. (2009). Western Humanities Review: Introduction. Western Humanities Review, 63(3).
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2007). Modernité et sorcellerie: Baudelaire lecteur du XVIII E siècle. Alea : Estudos Neolatinos, 9(1), 34-47. doi:10.1590/s1517-106x2007000100003

Reviews

• Mcginnis, R. J. (2020. Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France: A Documentary History. Edited by Jeffrey Merrick.(pp 461-462). Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, 3.
• Mcginnis, R. J. (2020. Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, sous la direction de Diego Venturino. Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, vols. 11A, 11B, 12, 13A, 13B, 13C et 13D.(pp non-paginated). https://h-france.net/vol20reviews/vol20no186McGinnis.pdf.