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  • Velocipedomania

    A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France

    by Corry Cropper, Seth Whidden ...
    When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania, which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural attitudes and challenged gender norms.Velocipedomania is the first in-depth study of the velocipede fad and the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Marianne Meets the Mormons

    Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France

    by Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, Daryl Lee ...
    In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee bring to light French representations of Mormonism from the 1830s to 1914, arguing that these portrayals often critiqued and parodied French society. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mormons in Paris

    Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892

    Edited by Corry Cropper, Christopher M. Flood ...
    Series series Scènes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
    Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History AssociationIn the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

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    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

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  • Dialogue Between A Priest And A Dying Man (Mobi Classics)

    by Marquis de Sade ...
    Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man is a dialogue written by the Marquis de Sade while incarcerated in 1782, expressing his atheism by having the dying libertine convince the priest of the mistakes of a pious life. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Enemies of the Enlightenment

    The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity

    by Darrin M. McMahon ...
    Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Free and French in the Caribbean

    Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

    by John Patrick Walsh ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    "All the ingredients to become the next important book in the field of postcolonial studies with the emphasis on French Caribbean culture and literature."—Daniel Desormeaux, University of ChicagoIn Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the ... Read more

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  • Germaine de Staël

    A Political Portrait

    by Biancamaria Fontana ...
    The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writingsGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she was also a prominent figure in politics during the French Revolution. Biancamaria Fontana sheds new light on this often overlooked aspect of Staël's life and work, bringing vividly to life her unique ... Read more

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  • The Age of Comfort

    When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began

    by Joan DeJean ...
    Today, it is difficult to imagine a living room without a sofa. When the first sofas on record were delivered in seventeenth-century France, the result was a radical reinvention of interior space. Symptomatic of a new age of casualness and comfort, the sofa ushered in an era known as the golden age of conversation; as the first piece of furniture designed for two, it was also considered an ... Read more

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  • Tocqueville and His America: A Darker Horizon

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  • Proust's Duchess

    How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris

    by Caroline Weber ...
    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A brilliant look at turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. “Weber has done a remarkable job of bringing to life…a world of culture, glamour and privilege.” —The Wall Street JournalGeneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de ... Read more

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