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 […]
Inglorious Artists: Art World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Art Market in Paris, 1750-1850
This book is also freely available online as an Open Access digital edition on the Mainfold platform, here. 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 […]
Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Unsettling Sexuality was recently listed as one of The Guild of Queer Early Modernists’ Top Ten Books of 2025! 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, […]