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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Marie-Antoinette"”.
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
<p>In the two hundred years since her death, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) has became a hugely popular subject in academic scholarship and 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 …
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L'Auguste Autrichienne : representations of Marie-Antoinette in 19th century French literature and history
… Josepha Joanna, or as she is most well-known, Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) spent her entire life under the watchful eye of many. Fashioned from birth as an Austrian aristocrat, she was transported to France at age fourteen to meet and marry the future king of France. From the onset of her …
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Individual as political symbol : Warren Hastings and Marie Antoinette in the writings of Edmund Burke.
… and the purpose of his idealized portrait of Marie Antoinette in The Reflections on the Revolution in France--become more easily resolved when, through a close reading of the texts, one understands that for Burke both of these figures symbolize specific political principles. Burke depicts …
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Two Artistis, One Revolution: Jacques Louis David and Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
… by European nobility, most notably Queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793). Her specialization in portraiture was largely due to the limited professional opportunities for women artists. David’s work also includes portraits, as well as historical and allegorical paintings, genres reserved for …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… figures of monstrosity, the Monster of Ravenna, Marie Antoinette, and Henriette Cornier, are analyzed through the Foucauldian framework of power and visibility, and brought in dialogue with figures such as Jean Bodin and Immanuel Kant in order to elaborate the mechanisms of defense operative in …
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Aristocrats, Republicans, and Cannibals: American Reactions to French Women in Violence
… (Charlotte Corday and Madame Roland), and Queen Marie Antoinette. Using newspapers with and without political affiliations, to either the Federalist or Democratic-Republican Party, it argues that the dividing ideological lines between these factions were not as steadfast and rigid as previously …
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The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
… on Vigée-Lebrun’s innovative portrayal of Marie Antoinette and Labille-Guiard’s more traditional, yet remarkable portrait of Madame Adelaide, I will show how each artist employed different strategies in order to succeed. In the fourth chapter I contrast each artist’s response to the …
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
… of Louis XVI, the trial and execution of Marie-Antoinette, the murder of Marat, the execution of Madame Roland, and the fall of Maximilien Robespierre--in light of an evolving British national identity. The newspaper accounts of these reveal a composite British national identity consisting …
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Schatten, Farbe, Licht
… zunehmend zur Malerin der unglücklichen Königin Marie Antoinette und somit zu einem Symbol des alten Frankreichs. In dieser Eigenschaft belebt sie das in Frankreich bereits als überholt geltende Bildmotiv des portrait historié neu, wie anhand ausführlicher Analysen ihrer Porträts der Emma Hart …
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Characteristics and Workload of Full-Time Faculty in Baccalaureate Dental Hygiene Programs
The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics and workload of full-time faculty in baccalaureate dental hygiene programs. A mail questionnaire was sent to program administrators for distribution to faculty. Program response rate was 89.7% (26/29) and full-time faculty response rate …
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Ironman: The Gordon Haller Story
<p>The documentary film Ironman: The Gordon Haller Story takes a look at an ordinary man who accomplished the extraordinary feat of winning the first Ironman triathlon in 1978. Gordon Haller was born and raised in Oregon before a career in the United States Navy took him to Hawaii where he would …
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Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France
<p>Princess on the Margins: Toward a New Biography of Madame Élisabeth de France, moves past the perpetuation of prior biographies on Louis XVI’s sister which make the princess out to be a “virgin martyr” and instead focuses on the princess’s political agency and place with the political culture of …