Publication Date: 01/01/2014
Ce livre prend le XVIIIe siècle à contre–courant. S’il faut s’en souvenir comme celui de l’industrie émergente, la paresse en effet ne cesse d’être condamnée par les philosophes et l’économie nouvelle. Mais nous trouvons des marginaux de la poussée du capital et de la propagande de l’action, des...
Publication Date: 03/01/2013
The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
A year in Paris … since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
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Publication Date: 02/01/2013
Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France...
Publication Date: 01/01/2013
By Jonathan Hess (Editor), Maurice Samuels (Editor), Nadia Vaiman (Editor)
Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume...
Publication Date: 05/29/2011
The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry — not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and...
Publication Date: 12/01/2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern...
Publication Date: 01/01/2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
Publication Date: 05/01/2007
No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. But one of the least-known stories from that era is also one of the ugliest chapters in...
Publication Date: 11/01/2006
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the...
Publication Date: 09/09/2004
Winner of the 2007 Gaddis Smith Book Prize (MacMillan Center, Yale University)
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of...
