Hugues Lebailly

French academic, Senior Lecturer in English Cultural Studies at the Sorbonne. Known for his work on nineteenth-century English literature, particularly his studies of Lewis Carroll which, in combination with the work of Karoline Leach and others, have opened the way to a reassessment of Carroll's life and personality.

Publications include:

'Dr Dodgson et Mr Carroll: de la caricature au portrait.' [Dr. Dodgson and Mr. Carroll : from caricature to portrait.] Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens n° 43, April 1996, Presses Universitaires de Montpellier.

'The Powerful and the Sweet:dialectique du masculin et du féminin dans la critique d'art victorienne'. [The Dialectics of Masculinity and Femininity in Victorian Art Criticism.] Masculin/Féminin, Littératures et cultures anglo-saxonnes, proceedings of the 38th Congress of the S.A.E.S. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, May 1999 (pp. 151-163).

'Ordering disorder: la fonction normative de la critique d'art victorienne.' [Ordering Disorder : the normative function of Victorian art criticism.] Littérature et Ordre Social, proceedings of the second International Congress of the University of Le Havre, headed by Jean-Paul Barbiche: Paris, l'Harmattan, 1999 (pp. 73-83).

'C. L. Dodgson and the Victorian Cult of the Child', The Carrollian, The Lewis Carroll Journal n° 4, autumn 1999 (pp. 3-31).

'Through a Distorting Looking-Glass: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's artistic interests as mirrored in his nieces' edited version of his diaries' (http://contrariwise.wild-reality.net/distort.html)

'Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's relationship with the weaker and more aesthetic sex re-examined' (http://www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/cldandfemales.html)

See also

• Lewis Carroll
• Karoline Leach