New Publications
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I thought I might take a moment this morning to call attention to new publications by some of my past and present doctoral students.
In the current (October 2022) issue of The William and Mary Quarterly, Blake Grindon has published “Hilliard d’Auberteuil’s Mis Mac Rea: A Story of the American Revolution in the French Atlantic.” It uses a novel by an influential French colonial official and author to show how the American Revolutionary War, and particularly the role of indigenous peoples in it, appeared when seen through a French colonial lens.
Meanwhile, over at the summer 2022 issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies, you can find Matthew McDonald’s essay “‘A Society of Men of Letters’: Provincial Cosmopolitanism and Swiss Sociability at the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel, 1769–1789.” It’s a new look at the Swiss publishing firm made famous by Robert Dartnon, arguing that its founders were far more interested in literary prestige and achieving the status of “philosophes” than earlier work had allowed for.
This August, Cambridge University Press published Claire Cage’s second book, The Science of Proof: Forensic Medicine in Modern France. It shows just how fraught the process was by which medical experts tried to establish their authority in the legal arena and is revealing about modern categories of expert authority in general.
Finally, in June, Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre brought out Paris A. Spies-Gans’s first book, A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830. It reveals, chiffres à l’appui, the unprecedented and previously unrecognized extent to which women acted as professional artists in France and Britain in the Age of Revolution.
Happy reading!