Hostile Humor in Renaissance France

This book is also available online as an Open Access digital edition here. The Open Access edition is funded  by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In sixteenth-century France, the level of jokes, irony, and ridicule found in pamphlets and plays became aggressively hostile. In Hostile Humor in Renaissance France, Bruce Hayes investigates this period leading […]

Author
Bruce Hayes
Hardback ISBN:
9781644531778
Hardback Release:
April 2020
Paperback ISBN:
9781644531785
Paperback Release:
April 2020
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Inglorious Artists: Art World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850

Inglorious Artists traces the origins of the image of the starving artist to late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, where practicing and aspiring visual artists mobilized the emerging genre of graphic satire to publish hundreds of satirical images that satirized Paris’ art world — 532 images that have never been studied or published. While it has […]

Author
Kathryn Desplanque
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533642
Hardback Release:
July 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533635
Paperback Release:
July 2025
Series:
Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
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Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century

This book is also freely available online as an Open Access digital edition on the Mainfold platform, here. Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century challenges the traditional ways that scholarship has approached sexuality, gender nonconformity, and sex (as well as its absence) in the long eighteenth century. Drawing from recent and emerging […]

Editor(s)
Jeremy Chow
Editor(s)
Shelby Johnson
Hardback ISBN:
9781644533499
Hardback Release:
October 2024
Paperback ISBN:
9781644533482
Paperback Release:
October 2024
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