Tag Archives: French
Francophiles
Alice Yaeger Kaplan discusses her contribution to A New History of French Literature (Harvard University Press, 1989) and her work in progress, a project entitled Confessions of a Francophile. Dale Van Kley discusses his study of the origins of the … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Kaplan, Alice Yaeger, Van Kley, Dale K.
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Earthly Ethics
Frances Moore Lappe and J. Baird Callicott discuss Lappe’s most recent book, Rediscovering American Values (Ballantine Books, 1989) and Callicott’s work in progress, The Ecological Conscience, an edition of essays by Aldo Leopold. 491 – Earthly Ethics
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Africa to America Part 2
David Geggus discusses his study of the Saint Domingue slave revolt of 1791 and the French Revolutionary period in the Caribbean. Colin Palmer discusses his study of the pre-emancipation experiences of blacks in the Americas. 489 – Africa to America … Continue reading
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Scandal and Boredom
Sarah Maza discusses the diamond necklace affair, an episode that illuminates the role of gender and sexuality in French revolutionary culture. Patricia Meyer Spacks discusses boredom as a cultural phenomenon. 473 – Scandal and Boredom
Posted in Episodes, Maza, Sarah C., Spacks, Patricia Meyer
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European Images
Richard Abel talks about his history of the French cinema between 1906 and 1914. Lilian Furst discusses her study of Possible Places in European Realist Fiction from Balzac to Thomas Mann. 460 – European Images
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Politics in Transition
Lynn Hunt discusses sexuality, gender, and the French Revolution. Larry Eugene Jones discusses the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power between 1928 and 1934. 454 – Politics in Transition
Posted in Episodes, Hunt, Lynn A., Jones, Larry Eugene
Tagged French, Gender, German, Politics
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Private Vices, Public Virtues
Sarah Maza discusses her forthcoming study, Private Vices, Public Virtues: Literature, Law, and Public Opinion in France 1762-1789 449 – Private Vices, Public Virtues
France in Transition
Patricia O’Brien is the author of The Promise of Punishment: Prisons in Nineteenth-Century France (1982). She’s at work on a study entitled The Police, the State, and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century France. Donald Reid’s book,The Miners of Decazevile: A Genealogy … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, O'Brien, Patricia A., Reid, Donald M.
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Medieval English Politics and Poetry: (1) Edward II; (2) Chaucer
Seymour Phillips considers aspects of the biography of the medieval English king Edward II, whose tumultuous twenty-year reign was marked with sexual scandal, political buffeting, and international intrigue. In the second segment [16:35], James Wimsatt discusses his book about the medieval English poet … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Phillips, J. R. S. (Seymour), Wimsatt, James I.
Tagged Chaucer, Edward II, English poetry, French, French poetry, Politics
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The Clothing of the French Mind
Sima Godfrey discusses her study of high fashion and fashionability in mid-nineteenth-century French literature. In the Second Empire, which was a time of unstable social structure as the middle class strengthened, the culture of and interest in fashion were reflected … Continue reading
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Tagged Fashion, French, French literature, Haute couture -- history
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