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Tag Archives: French
Praising Provence
The south of France has inspired generations of writers, among them Peter Mayle, the author of best sellers such as A Year in Provence, A Dog’s Life, and his latest, Anything Considered. He was recently at the National Humanities Center and visited with francophile and scholar Priscilla Ferguson. They have a wide-ranging conversation that includes gastronomic adventures and truffles, travel writing, and the memorable local color of Provence that underscores Mayle’s stylish writing.
Memoirs, Personal & Professional
Alice Kaplan talks about a memoir about her love affair with France. Teresa Phelps discusses The Coach’s Wife, her memoir of education and big-time basketball.
Romantic and Idealist
Charles Capper discusses his biography of Margaret Fuller, the 19th-century American feminist. Naomi Schor discusses her new book, George Sand & Idealism, her reappraisal of the most popular author in 19th-century France.
Rethinking European Lit
A talk about satire and structure in early modern French literature. A discussion of new perspectives on Old English literature.
Commentary on Mother’ Day; Arts Theatrical, Arts Medical
A commentary about Mother’s Day.; A discussion of Brownstein’s account of stardom and 19th-century French theatre, Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise. Edward Cohen discusses Henley’s in Hospital, his chronicle of poetry and the medical arts in Victorian England.
Sustaining Earth, Handling Heredity
Richard Burian discusse Handling Heredity, his study of the interplay of science and culture in 19th and 20th-century France. A discussion of Earth Summit 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.
The Civil Society Part 3
Robert Darnton traces political censorship from 18th-century France into contemporary Europe. Conor Cruise O’Brien discusses civil societies around the globe.
Public Philosophy
Thomas Flynn discusses the life and work of the modern French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault. Richard Rorty discusses philosophy and the politics of the American left.
Historical Labors
Dirk Philipsen and Leonid Gordon talk about labor and political culture in contemporary Eastern Europe. Jacques Ranciere and Donald Reid talk about French labor history.
Engendered States
Anna Clark discusses the sexual politics of London during the early 19th-century. Sarah Hanley discusses family formation and state building in early modern France.
Francophiles
Alice Yaeger Kaplan discusses her contribution to A New History of French Literature (Harvard University Press, 1989) and her work in progress, a project entitled Confessions of a Francophile. Dan Van Kley discusses his study of the origins of the French Revoultion.
Earthly Ethics
Frances Moore Lappe and J. Baird Callicott discuss Lappe’s most recent book, Rediscovering American Values (Ballantine Books, 1989) and Callicott’s work in progress, The Ecological Conscience, an edition of essays by Aldo Leopold.
Africa to America Part 2
David Geggus discusses his study of the Saint Domingue slave revolt of 1791 and the French Revolutionary period in the Caribbean. Colin Palmer discusses his study of the pre-emancipation experiences of blacks in the Americas.
Scandal and Boredom
Sarah Maza discusses the diamond necklace affair, an episode that illuminates the role of gender and sexuality in French revolutionary culture. Patricia Meyer Spacks discusses boredom as a cultural phenomenon.
European Images
Richard Abel talks about his history of the French cinema between 1906 and 1914. Lilian Furst discusses her study of Possible Places in European Realist Fiction from Balzac to Thomas Mann.