Joan DeJean

Joan DeJean's books

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

3.83 avg rating — 1,412 ratings

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

3.83 avg rating — 404 ratings

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

3.61 avg rating — 314 ratings

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

3.93 avg rating — 187 ratings

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

3.64 avg rating — 85 ratings

Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville: An MLA Text Edition

4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings

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

4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings

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

4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings

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

4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings

Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937

3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings