Angelica Goodden: 3 books
Miss Angel
The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman, Eighteenth-Century Icon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
A word was coined to describe the condition of people stricken with a new kind of fever when the Swiss-born artist Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) came to London in 1766. 'The whole world', it was said, 'is Angelicamad.'
One of the most successful women artists in history - a painter who possessed...
The Backward Look
Memory and Writing Self in France 1580-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Theories of memory and fictional recreations of the remembering mind have occupied a central place in French literature since Montaigne. The author investigates the shifting relation between cognitive or ""scientific"" memory and emotional or spiritual recollection in a series...
Madame de Staël
The Dangerous Exile
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
How does exile beget writing, and writing exile? What kind of writing can both be fuelled by absence and prolong it? Exile, which was meant to imprison her, paradoxically gave Madame de Staël a freedom that enabled her to be as active a dissident as any woman in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...