H-France Forum: Volume 15 (2020)

H-France Forum Volume 15 (2020)

Volume 15, Issue 7

Issue Editor: Hilary Bernstein, University of California Santa Barbara

Nicholas Hammond, The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. x + 203 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9780271084718 (hb).

Review Essays:

David Garrioch, Monash University
Éva Guillorel, Université Rennes 2
Una McIlvenna, University of Melbourne
Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University

Response essay by Nicholas Hammond, University of Cambridge

Volume 15, Issue 6

Issue Editor: Venita Datta, Wellesley College, with Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, Emeritus

Robin Mitchell, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020. xix + 183 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, index. $99.95 (hb). ISBN 9-780-8203-5432-3. $34.95 (pb). ISBN -780-8203-5431-6.

Review Essays:
Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University
H. Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, CY Cergy Paris Université
Rebecca Rogers, Cerlis, CNRS, Université de Paris

Response Essay by Robin Mitchell, California State University, Channel Islands

Volume 15, Issue 5

Issue Editor: Masha Belenky, The George Washington University

Illuminated Paris

Hollis Clayson, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. 248 pp. 107 figures. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN-13: 978-0-226-59386-9

Review Essays:
Marnin Young, Yeshiva University
Peter Soppelsa, University of Oklahoma
Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University
Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Response Essay by Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University

Volume 15, Issue 4

Issue Editor: David Harrison, Grinnell College


Chloé Hogg, Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France. Rethinking the Early Modern series. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2019. xii + 276 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 (pb) ISBN 978-0-8101-3941-1.

Review Essays:
Mathilde Bombart, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
Ellen R. Welch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jennifer Tamas, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Hélène Visentin, Smith College, MA

Response Essay by Chloé Hogg, University of Pittsburgh

Volume 15, Issue 3

Issue Editor: James Steintrager, University of California, Irvine

Margaret C. Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Xii + 360 pages. $29.95 (cl). ISBN: 978-0691161327

Review Essays:
Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University
Alicia C. Montoya, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester

Response Essay by Margaret C. Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles

Volume 15, Issue 2

Issue Editor: Jack Censer, George Mason University

Andrew Israel Ross, Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. xi + 248 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4399-1489-2

Review Essays:
Jill Harsin, Colgate University
Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University
Norma Broude, American University
William Peniston, The Newark Museum of Art

Response Essay by Andrew Israel Ross, Loyola University Maryland

Volume 15, Issue 1

Issue Editor: Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara

Barbara B. Diefendorf, Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. x + 215 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-088702-5.

Review essays:

Megan C. Armstrong, McMaster University
Olivia Carpi, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne
Linda Lierheimer, Hawaii Pacific University
David van der Linden, Radboud University Nijmegen

Response Essay  by Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University