Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingency.
Anne Duprat, principal director of the international Collaborative Research Project ANR-ALEA (2020-2023), is the general editor of the work. Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Anne Duprat is the author of recognized works on the theory of fiction and on the relationships between literature, cultural anthropology, and intellectual history. A member of the Institut Universitaire de France, her publications include Vraisemblances. Poétique et théorie de la fiction (Droz, 2009), Fiction et cultures (ed. with Françoise Lavocat, 2010) and Histoires et savoirs. Anecdotes scientifiques et sérendipité aux XVIe et XVIIIe siècle (ed. with F. Aït-Touati, 2012).
Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (Pr., U. Lille) is a specialist of literature of ideas (politics, historiography, science) in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Anne-Gaëlle Weber (Pr., U. Artois) is a specialist of relationships between science and literature.
