...Robert Neuman The College of William & Mary 2000 108 — Review Essay — Social Identity and the Politics of Place in France Robert W. Berger. A Royal Passion: Louis XIV as Patron of Architecture. Cam- bridge...

...Jeffrey Merrick Duke University Press 2006 Suicide and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France Jeff rey Merrick University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee While theologians, jurists...

...Garritt Van Dyk Atlantic sugar production and European sugar consumption rose dramatically in the late eighteenth century. Despite this increase, there were two separate calls to refrain from consuming sugar in both Britain and France at the end of the eighteenth century. Demands for abstinence...

...Michael R. Lynn Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France Michael R. Lynn Agnes Scott College In April of 1770, Marie...

...Beatrice Fink Review Essay The Seamier Side of Eighteenth-Century France Beatrice Fink University of Maryland Laurence L. Bongie. From Rogue to Everyman: A Foundling’s Journey to the Bastille (Montreal: McGill...

..., Friend, and Voltaire: Pederasty and Publicity in Pre- Revolutionary France Jeffrey Merrick University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Lieutenant- general of police J. C. P. Lenoir famously insisted that in the long run pederasty can only be a vice of great lords, even though his own agents collected abundant...

...Ann Campbell This essay argues that Frances Burney in Cecilia; or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782) critiques political debates and literary conventions focused on clandestine marriage. Through two plots of this novel, one economic and one focused on courtship, Burney interprets clandestine marriage...

... challenging and unfamiliar environment through which to navigate. R “A Tattling Town like Windsor”: Negotiating Proper Relations in Frances Burney’s Early Court Journals and Letters (1786 – ­87) Gillian Skinner...

...Susan K. Howard Burney Frances . Court Journals and Letters . ( Oxford : Clarendon , 2011 ). Vol. 1 : ( 1786 ) , ed. Sabor Peter . Pp. xlix + 343. 8 ills. ; vol. 2 : ( 1787 ) , ed. Cooke Stewart . Pp. xxiii + 334. 5 ills . $185 each Copyright 2013 by Duke...

...Stewart Cooke “You must get rid … of this Cold, as fast as possible, because we want you at Twickenham !,” cried Richard Owen Cambridge on 22 January 1785 while visiting the ailing Frances Burney at her home in St. Martin’s Street, London. There is little doubt that Cambridge did, indeed, want...

[email protected] [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 In the twelfth and final volume of The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney , Joyce Hemlow published, for the first time, a transcription of the will of Frances Burney d'Arblay (1752 – 1840), dated 6 March 1839...

...Sophie Coulombeau In Frances Burney’s second novel, Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (1782), the social taxonomist Mr. Gosport educates the protagonist in the ways of the bon ton by applying classificatory principles to metropolitan polite society. This article argues that Gosport’s methodology...

...Hilary Havens After her beloved sister Susan died on 6 January 1800, Frances Burney wrote several grieving letters, but her ordinarily voluminous journals and letters were markedly scant during the year 1800. Burney expressed her grief later and elsewhere, particularly in her little-known...

...Devoney Looser This essay considers Frances Burney’s last published work, Memoirs of Doctor Burney (1832), for its sustained attention to gender, aging, and authorship. When the Memoirs is read from cover to cover, significant and previously unnoticed patterns emerge that offer new insights...

...Hilary Havens Frances Burney's opinion of the Bluestocking circle has often been interpreted negatively due to her comic play, The Witlings (1779), which ridicules members of the group. In fact, Burney's perception of the Bluestockings, explained here through her relationships with three...

... Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 An Account of the Personal Estate, and of Monies arising out of the Real Estate, of Frances D'Arblay formerly of Bolton Street Piccadilly but late of Lower Grosvenor Street Grosvenor Square 1 Widow 2 who died on the sixth day of January...