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Examines the many ways in which the castaway, particularly in the form of engagement with Robinson Crusoe, has been reinterpreted and appropriated in nineteenth through twenty-first century French literature.
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Examines representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence... Læs mere
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Examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting... Læs mere
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Reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme Rétif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development... Læs mere
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Examines a recurring figure that appears in French, British, and German drama between 1789 and 1830: the woman warrior. The term itself, ""woman warrior,"" refers to quasi-historical female soldiers or assassins.
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Looks at the ways in which writers of the long eighteenth century treat writing and imagination as technologies... Læs mere
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Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues became essential... Læs mere
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Constructs a cultural history of porcelain making in France. The book takes its title from two types of ""bodies"" treated in the... Læs mere
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Works between Burney's Journals and Letters and her fiction more thoroughly than any study of her in the past twenty-five years. By doing so, it offers significant reinterpretations of Burney's four novels: Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer.
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Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors seriously?... Læs mere
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Traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and their associates from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century.
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Explores the changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period often said to have witnessed the birth of the modern... Læs mere