Author: Christopher Lake MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Sketch of Modern France
Author: Christopher Lake MoodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A Sketch of Modern France, in a series of letters. ... Written in the years 1796 and 1797. ... By a Lady. Edited by C. L. Moody
Author: Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II vol 5
Author: Stephen BendingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 104028986X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.
Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Katrina O'LoughlinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108676758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The eighteenth century witnessed the publication of an unprecedented number of voyages and travels, genuine and fictional. Within a genre distinguished by its diversity, curiosity, and experimental impulses, Katrina O'Loughlin investigates not just how women in the eighteenth century experienced travel, but also how travel writing facilitated their participation in literary and political culture. She canvases a range of accounts by intrepid women, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters, Lady Craven's Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Eliza Justice's A Voyage to Russia, and Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Moving from Ottoman courts to theatres of war, O'Loughlin shows how gender frames access to people and spaces outside Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and how travel provides women with a powerful cultural form for re-imagining their place in the world.
Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
Author: Anne HigonnetPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039386796X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Three women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities. Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Térézia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries. They slipped into light, mobile dresses, cropped their hair short, wrapped themselves in shawls, and championed the handbag. Juliette made the new style stand for individual liberty. The erotic audacity of these fashion revolutionaries conquered Europe, starting with Napoleon. Everywhere a fashion magazine could reach, women imitated the news coming from Paris. It was the fastest and most total change in clothing history. Two centuries ahead of its time, it was rolled back after only a decade by misogynist rumors of obscene extravagance. New evidence allows the real fashion revolution to be told. This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor
Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II vol 4
Author: Stephen BendingPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040281257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.
Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
Author: France and the Grand Tour
Author: J. BlackPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
In this innovative study of the Grand Tour, Black relies on archival sources to provide an exploration of the real tourist experience rather than, as for the majority of studies of the Grand Tour, an account that is essentially based on travel literature. While sensitive to wider cultural dimensions, the author demonstrates his interest in the experience of tourists, particularly the circumstances they encountered, and the impact of the Grand Tour on British Society.
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