Enlightenment

Les Antiquités dépaysées

Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme's Les Antiquités dépaysées is the March volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book is the first on geopolitics of antiquarianism in the eighteenth-century. In this blog post, Charlotte Guichard and Stéphane Van Damme discuss this new publication and how the volume came to exist. In recent decades there … Continue reading

Journals, News

Spotlight on The Female Voice: Free to read journal articles and 30% off selected e-book and print books

As part of our Spotlight on The Female Voice, enjoy a discount on selected books and free access to a selection of articles from across our journals, available until March 31st 2022. To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are offering 30% off selected e-book and print books – to take advantage of this offer, use … Continue reading

Enlightenment

Making sense of and with the past: catastrophe, narrative, historicity and the early pandemic

Jessica Stacey is the author of Narrative, catastrophe and historicity in eighteenth-century French literature, the February volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book explores the question of how French eighteenth-century writers used stories of catastrophe to place themselves within history. In this blog post, Jessica Stacey uses the early pandemic as a case study to … Continue reading