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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Eighteenth-century France"”.
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
In eighteenth-century France, music was everywhere. Musical criticism and scores filled journals and newspapers, new concert houses and music shops spread across Paris, most authors addressed music in their writings, and pre-revolutionary speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and …
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The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
… were two of the most prominent women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this thesis that in their responses to a range of societal limitations, Vigée-Lebrun and Labille- Guiard forged remarkable careers. I will examine just how they did so by focusing …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
… pop culture alike. Her role as a fashion icon in eighteenth-century France has resulted in monumental influence on contemporary fashion and pop culture aimed at young women. However, the effects of anti-fashion, anti-Rococo, and anti-woman sentiment in late-eighteenth-century culture continue to …
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Women's Voices in Arabic, French, and English Salons: Literary Impacts
… Arabic literature and the literature of eighteenth century France and England. It compares women as writers and sponsors of salons during two different periods of world history.
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'Le theatre change et represente': Lecture critique des oeuvres dramatiques du Marquis de Sade
… general context of the theatrical practices in Eighteenth Century France and to reconstitute the author's dramatic writing process through a study of intertextuality of each of his plays. The genetic approach used here gives further insight into Sade's writing techniques; indeed in these plays, …
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Eighteenth-Century French Oboes: A Comparative Study
… came into being in the middle of the seventeenth century in France, underwent a number of changes throughout the following century. French instruments were influenced both by local practices and by the introduction of influences from other parts of Europe. The background of the makers of these …
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The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
… maison (otherwise known as a little house) in eighteenth-century France. In particular, I focus on a popular libertine novella written in 1758 by Jean-Francois de Bastide entitled appropriately enough La Petite maison. In the novella, Bastide conflates concepts of vice and virtue in his …
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Fashionable Chemistry: The History of Printing Cotton in France in the Second Half of the Eighteenth and First Decades of the Nineteenth Century
In the seventeenth century, when brilliantly coloured Indian painted and printed cotton textiles reached Europe they became very popular. Due to the large volume of imported textiles, local wool and silk producers became concerned and they petitioned for strict regulations. In France, legislation …
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History, Moral Philosophy, and Social Theory in David Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1739-1752
… historical methods in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. On the methodological side, the thesis contrasts the critical method of Pierre Bayle’s Dicionnaire Historique et Critique with the attempt to develop a new ‘philosophical’ approach to historical criticism at the Académie des …
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
In late eighteenth-century France, questions about the regulation and standardisation of measurements enthralled the intellectual and scientific elites, state administrators, large-scale traders, members of the artisanal world and of the engaged reading public. In the revolutionary period, members …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
… intellectual, and cultural significance of France's provincial newspaper press, called affiches, published between 1750-1789. Combining the histories of the press, provincial life, and the public sphere, this dissertation explores the ways in which the affiches became an indispensable part …
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Masks and masking practices in old regime France and the French Revolution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms