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  • Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825)

    Dissident Author under Louis XVIII

    by Ian R. Morrison ...
    Series Book 22 - Medieval and Early Modern French Studies
    Paul-Louis Courier (1772–1825), after being a comparatively discreet critic of Napoleon in his letters, became a scourge of the Restoration Establishment, both secular and clerical, in pamphlets which he published from 1816 onwards. His writings were incendiary enough to attract death threats, two prosecutions, and one term of imprisonment. Unlike other pamphleteers, he was concerned with ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • The Gargantuan Polity

    On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance

    by Michael Randall ...
    Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which allowed rulers to hold power due to approval of their subjects. Noting how the relationship between ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book

    by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

    The search for a republican morality

    by Jonathan Smyth ...
    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

    by Max Pearson Cushing ...
    Diderot, writing to the Princess Dashkoff in 1771, thus analysed the spirit of his century: Chaque siècle a son esprit qui le caractérise. L'esprit du nôtre semble être celui de la liberté. La première attaque contre la superstition a été violente, sans mesure. Une fois que les hommes ont osé d'une manière quelconque donner l'assaut à la barrière de la religion, cette barrière la plus formidable ... Read more

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  • Charles Palissot The Philosophes

    by Jessica Goodman, Olivier Ferret, Charles Palissot ...
    In 1760, the French playwright Charles Palissot de Montenoy wrote Les Philosophes – a scandalous farcical comedy about a group of opportunistic self-styled philosophers. Les Philosophes emerged in the charged historical context of the pamphlet wars surrounding the publication of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, and delivered an oblique but acerbic criticism of the intellectuals of the ... Read more

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  • The Dream of Absolutism

    Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity

    by Hall Bjørnstad ...
    The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV.What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend to do?In this sweeping reconsideration of absolutist culture, Hall ... Read more

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  • Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit Beyond the Prose Poem

    by Valentina Gosetti ...
    Series series Legenda
    Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) is a familiar title to music lovers, thanks to Ravel’s piano work of the same name, and to specialists of French literature, especially those interested in Baudelaire’s prose poetry. Yet until very recently the collection and its author have generally been viewed almost exclusively through the prism of their pioneering role in the development of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

    by Cecilia Feilla ...
    Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

    Mastering Memory

    by Faith E. Beasley ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with ... Read more

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  • The Amorous Restoration

    Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France

    by Andrew J. Counter ...
    When Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, and again in 1815, France embarked upon a period of uneasy cohabitation between the old and the new. The writers of the age, who included Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Mme de Duras, agreed that they lived at a historical turning point, a transitional moment whose outcome, though still uncertain, would transform the French way of life- ... Read more

    $100.79 USD