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Joan DeJean

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Born: October 03 1948

Joan DeJean has been Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1988. She previously taught at Yale and at Princeton. She is the author of eleven books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including most recently How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City ; The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--and the Modern Home Began ; The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour . She lives in Philadelphia and, when in Paris, around the corner from the house where, in 1612, this story began.

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Joan DeJean

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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour

Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2)

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began

Ourika: The Original French Text

The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle, tome 2

The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France

Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle

Paris: Life Luxury in the Eighteenth Century

Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937

Bahtin i drugi

Displacements: Women, Tradition, Literatures In French

Yale French Studies No. 75: The Politics of Tradition: Placing Women in French Literature

Capitalism A Journal of History and Economics (Volume 1.1, Fall 2019)

Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Tome 2) - XIXe -XXIe siècle. Francophonies

Antigos Contra Modernos

Against Marriage