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Autour de Ledoux : architecture, ville et utopie
No full textIn October 2006, the Maison des sciences de l'homme et de l'environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (Besançon) brought together some twenty French and foreign researchers from a wide range of disciplines - architecture, history, art history, philosophy and anthropology - at the Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans to commemorate the bicentenary of Ledoux's death by examining the significance, challenges and future of his work. Ledoux was an architect who left behind a number of famous works, including the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Saline, but he was also the author of an often enigmatic book on architecture, the strangeness of which specialists continue to question. His work, both written and built, raises a number of questions relating to the history of architecture, the development of utopian currents and the regenerative project of the Enlightenment. The volume is divided into three parts. The first brings together studies devoted to Ledoux himself, both as a writer and an architect. The second attempts to place Ledoux in his context by studying influences, competition and legacies. Finally, the third extends the focus to ideal cities by examining the exchanges between architecture and utopia
Was there ever a “Female Gothic”?
No full textThis article examines the reception history of women-authored Gothic texts from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, arguing that the generic descriptor “Female Gothic” more accurately reflects the ideological goals of second-wave feminist literary criticism than the narratives of early women Gothic writers. While several critics have attempted to destabilize the term Female Gothic, its usage persists as a short-hand form to describe narratives in which distressed female heroines are imprisoned in the domestic sphere and threatened with extortion, rape and forced marriage. This essay asks why criticism clings to an understanding of this genre as one depicting female victimization despite overwhelming textual evidence that represents a much more complicated picture of women’s use and engagement with the Gothic mode. It is argued that the answer to this question rests in looking at how Gothic women’s writing was received in the early nineteenth century and how that reception history shaped the discursive strategies of second-wave feminist literary critics.Peer reviewe
“Florizel and Perdita Affair, 1779-80”
No full textThis article examines the cultural and political significance of the Prince of Wales’s early 1780s involvement with Drury Lane actress and poet Mary Robinson. Rather than just a romance between two public figures, the “Florizel and Perdita Affair” had wide-ranging effects that, when examined, offer meaningful insight into everything from the weakening influence of the Hanover dynasty and the campaigns of Whig opposition candidates to the aesthetics of formal portraiture, political cartoons, and popular fashion.Peer reviewe
Reform Ideology and Generic Structure in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor
No full textMy study of the Journal of a West India Proprietor examines the political implications of the text's generic strategies and explores how these generic strategies catalogue interior struggles between idealism and self-interest.Peer reviewe
Defiant Damsels: Gothic Space and Female Agency in Emmeline, The Mysteries of Udolpho, and Secresy
No full textThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Women's Writing 18:3 (2011), 331-347, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09699082.2010.508889
Working Mothers on the Romantic Stage: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson
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The Queer Contact Zone: Empire and Military Masculinity in the Memoirs of Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot, 1750-1810
No full textThe cross-dressed female soldier played a prominent role within Anglophone popular culture from the American Revolution through the Napoleonic Wars, appearing in ballads, comic operas, plays, and life writing. Feminist and queer analyses of these figures have largely been celebratory, framing historical military cross-dressers as working-class heroines or important examples of an emerging model of female masculinity. However, these interpretations have yet to acknowledge how these transgressive figures’ claims to subjectivity as representatives of the British military depend upon active participation in the imperial project. These female soldiers’ ability to perform masculinity is contingent upon a narrative and discursive investment in colonialism, violence, and racial hegemony. Using concepts from contemporary decolonial theory as a point of entry into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular culture, this article documents how the memoirs of two combat veterans--Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot--serve as early examples of what Jasbir Puar and others describe as “homonationalism.” By repeatedly marking the difference between their own “queerness” and the strangeness of the cisgender women, slaves, and indigenous people they encounter, Snell and Talbot garner legitimacy within the dominant by aligning themselves with masculinity, patriotism, and imperialism. Re-examining these warriors’ self-proclaimed “surprising adventures” within their colonial context reveals an unsettling relationship between queer historicism and the history of imperialism.Peer reviewe
Sergeant Joe LeDoux Bushnell in Cockpit
No full textOne Sepia Photograph; 5.25" x 4"; Sergeant Joe LeDoux Bushnell shirtless and seated in cockpit with trees in backgroun
Autour de Ledoux : architecture, ville et utopie
No full textEn octobre 2006, la Maison des sciences de l’homme et de l’environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (Besançon) a rassemblé à la Saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans une vingtaine de chercheurs français et étrangers appartenant à un large éventail de disciplines – architecture, histoire, histoire de l’art, philosophie et anthropologie – afin de commémorer le bicentenaire de la mort de Ledoux en s’interrogeant sur la signification, les enjeux et les prolongements de son œuvre. Architecte qui a laissé quelques œuvres fameuses, dont la Saline inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, Ledoux est aussi l’auteur d’un livre d’architecture souvent énigmatique dont les spécialistes ne cessent d’interroger l’étrangeté. Son œuvre, tant écrite que bâtie, met en jeu de nombreuses questions qui tiennent à la fois à l’histoire de l’architecture, au développement des courants utopiques et à l’approfondissement du projet régénérateur des Lumières. Le volume articule trois parties. La première rassemble des études consacrées à Ledoux lui-même, à la fois comme écrivain et architecte. La seconde s’efforce de replacer Ledoux dans son contexte en étudiant à la fois les influences, les concurrences et les héritages. Enfin, la troisième élargit le propos aux villes idéales en s’interrogeant sur les échanges entre architecture et utopie.In October 2006, the Maison des sciences de l'homme et de l'environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (Besançon) brought together some twenty French and foreign researchers from a wide range of disciplines - architecture, history, art history, philosophy and anthropology - at the Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans to commemorate the bicentenary of Ledoux's death by examining the significance, challenges and future of his work. Ledoux was an architect who left behind a number of famous works, including the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Saline, but he was also the author of an often enigmatic book on architecture, the strangeness of which specialists continue to question. His work, both written and built, raises a number of questions relating to the history of architecture, the development of utopian currents and the regenerative project of the Enlightenment. The volume is divided into three parts. The first brings together studies devoted to Ledoux himself, both as a writer and an architect. The second attempts to place Ledoux in his context by studying influences, competition and legacies. Finally, the third extends the focus to ideal cities by examining the exchanges between architecture and utopia.En octubre de 2006, la Maison des sciences de l'homme et de l'environnement Claude Nicolas Ledoux (Besançon) reunió en la Saline Royale d'Arc-et-Senans a una veintena de investigadores franceses y extranjeros de las más diversas disciplinas -arquitectura, historia, historia del arte, filosofía y antropología- para conmemorar el bicentenario de la muerte de Ledoux examinando el significado, los retos y el futuro de su obra. Ledoux fue un arquitecto que dejó tras de sí varias obras famosas, entre ellas la Saline, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO, pero también fue el autor de un libro de arquitectura a menudo enigmático, cuya extrañeza siguen cuestionando los especialistas. Su obra, tanto escrita como construida, plantea una serie de cuestiones relacionadas con la historia de la arquitectura, el desarrollo de las corrientes utópicas y el proyecto regenerador de la Ilustración. El volumen se divide en tres partes. La primera reúne los estudios dedicados al propio Ledoux, como escritor y como arquitecto. La segunda intenta situar a Ledoux en su contexto estudiando influencias, competencia y legados. Por último, la tercera amplía el enfoque a las ciudades ideales examinando los intercambios entre arquitectura y utopía
L'Hôtel de Thélusson conçu par Claude Nicolas Ledoux : Façade sur le jardin.
No full textDessin à la plume et lavis à l'encre de Chine teinté d'aquarelle ; 18 x 22,3 cmL’hôtel Théllusson a été conçu par Claude-Nicolas Ledoux à Paris en 1778. Cette riche demeure – aujourd’hui détruite –, fut considérée dès sa construction comme un véritable chef-d’œuvre à tel point que de nombreux amateurs d’architecture n’hésitaient pas à faire de nombreux kilomètres pour la visiter ! La demi-rotonde de la Maison-Blanche de Washington est sans doute inspirée par ce bâtiment.téléchargeabl
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