Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the "long eighteenth century" by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range o

In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. Studying literature, painting, engravi

Scent is both an essential and seemingly impossible-to-recover aspect of material culture. Scent is one of our strongest ties to memory, yet to remember a smell

This collection explores for the first time the importance of secret history in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explor