Jennifer J. Davis

Bad Subjects

Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619-1814

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bad Subjects examines the social and cultural milieu of the early modern French empire through an analysis of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 237mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781496207890
• ISBN-10: 1496207890
• Artikelnr.: 74172563

Autorenporträt

Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor of early modern European history in the Department of History and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650–1830, and presently serves as an editor for the Journal of Women’s History.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Bad Subjects” in the French Atlantic World
Chapter 1: “Among the Savages”: The Viau Affair, 1619-1626
Chapter 2: Locating the Libertines of New France, 1632-1765
Chapter 3: A Colonial Liberty?: Sex and Race in the Louisiana Colony,
1698-1768
Chapter 4: Libertines and S*v*ges: Explaining France’s Defeat in the Seven
Years’ War, 1754-1773
Chapter 5: A ‘Race of Libertines’: Gender, Family and the Law in France,
1684-1789
Chapter 6: Redeeming Libertines: The Désirade Experiment, 1762-1768
Chapter 7: Racializing Libertines: Sex and the Law of Slavery in the French
Antilles, 1763-1789
Chapter 8: Aristocrats and Libertines: Disputing Liberties in the Age of
Revolutions, 1784-1804
Epilogue: The Law and the Libertine, 1814
Notes
Bibliography
Index