Katherine Astbury
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Astbury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Astbury |
| SIGNATURE | ASTBURY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6551-0245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James Gregory , Napoleon in British Culture c. 1815–1840
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .
French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Daniel Gordon in his monograph on Citizens without Sovereignty explored how, in eighteenth-century France, sociability enabled those without power in the ancien régime to organize and order social spaces where they could have autonomy and offset their political impotence. The idea that those without power could create an autonomous existence within the ‘gaps and interstices’ of that hierarchical, authoritarian regime offers a potential framework …
Thomas Rousseau, Translator of an Enlightened Utopia
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French translations of Thomas More’s Utopia have received recent scholarly attention, as have the considerable number of imitations, borrowings and utopian projects of the eighteenth century in France, but until now very little attention has been paid to the work of Thomas Rousseau (1750–1800), who produced a translation of Utopia in 1780 and republished it with a new title and introduction in December 1789, jus…
Whole Shew and Spectacle: French Prisoner-of-War Theatre in England During the Napoleonic Era
During the Napoleonic wars there were tens of thousands of French prisoners of war (POWs) in Britain. Whether out on parole or held in prisons or on prison hulks, theatre was a common feature of their experiences. This article compares and contrasts the on-board theatricals that POWs performed on the hulks, in the purpose-built theatre at Portchester Castle and those put on by officers held on parole in towns across the country. In so doing, it e…
Sonorising “La Forteresse du Danube” Functions of music in Parisian and provincial melodrama of the early nineteenth century
The combination of spectacle and elaborate scenery, orchestra and obligatory dance number made early nineteenth-century French melodrama expensive to produce and, consequently, the genre is strongly associated with the Parisian boulevard theatres. Provincial performances required creative solutions, not least because the music composed for – and central to – the Paris performances remained in manuscript form and was not, therefore, distributed au…
Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory…
Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama
Journal Article Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama Get access Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. By Matthew S. Buckley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. ix + 191 pp. £33.50. ISBN 0 8018 8434 9. Katherine Astbury Katherine Astbury University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, …
Ange Goudar: Un aventurier des Lumières
By Jean-Claude Hauc. Paris, Champion, 2004. 204 pp., 8 b&w plates. Hb €40.00. Jean-Claude Hauc, in attempting to write a biography of Ange Goudar, has set himself a difficult task. Remembered largely because of references to him in Casanova's Mémoires, Goudar was indeed a typical aventurier of the period, but someone who has left very little in the way of personal recollections. Hauc wanted to correct the image of Goudar left by Casanova but he c…
The Moral Tale in France and Germany: 1750-1789
The Marquis de Sade and the Sentimental Tale: Les Crimes de l'amour as a subversion of sensibility
The Marquis de Sade and the Sentimental Tale: Les Crimes de l'amour as a subversion of sensibility
The Moral Tale in France and Germany: 1750-1789
Ange Goudar: Un aventurier des Lumières
By Jean-Claude Hauc. Paris, Champion, 2004. 204 pp., 8 b&w plates. Hb €40.00. Jean-Claude Hauc, in attempting to write a biography of Ange Goudar, has set himself a difficult task. Remembered largely because of references to him in Casanova's Mémoires, Goudar was indeed a typical aventurier of the period, but someone who has left very little in the way of personal recollections. Hauc wanted to correct the image of Goudar left by Casanova but he c…
Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama
Journal Article Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama Get access Tragedy Walks the Streets. The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. By Matthew S. Buckley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. ix + 191 pp. £33.50. ISBN 0 8018 8434 9. Katherine Astbury Katherine Astbury University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, …
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal not only a surprising engagement with politics but also an internalised emotional response to the turbulence of the period. In this innovative and wide-ranging study, Katherine Astbury uses trauma theory…
Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy
Sonorising “La Forteresse du Danube” Functions of music in Parisian and provincial melodrama of the early nineteenth century
The combination of spectacle and elaborate scenery, orchestra and obligatory dance number made early nineteenth-century French melodrama expensive to produce and, consequently, the genre is strongly associated with the Parisian boulevard theatres. Provincial performances required creative solutions, not least because the music composed for – and central to – the Paris performances remained in manuscript form and was not, therefore, distributed au…
Whole Shew and Spectacle: French Prisoner-of-War Theatre in England During the Napoleonic Era
During the Napoleonic wars there were tens of thousands of French prisoners of war (POWs) in Britain. Whether out on parole or held in prisons or on prison hulks, theatre was a common feature of their experiences. This article compares and contrasts the on-board theatricals that POWs performed on the hulks, in the purpose-built theatre at Portchester Castle and those put on by officers held on parole in towns across the country. In so doing, it e…
Thomas Rousseau, Translator of an Enlightened Utopia
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French translations of Thomas More’s Utopia have received recent scholarly attention, as have the considerable number of imitations, borrowings and utopian projects of the eighteenth century in France, but until now very little attention has been paid to the work of Thomas Rousseau (1750–1800), who produced a translation of Utopia in 1780 and republished it with a new title and introduction in December 1789, jus…
James Gregory , Napoleon in British Culture c. 1815–1840
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ .
French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Daniel Gordon in his monograph on Citizens without Sovereignty explored how, in eighteenth-century France, sociability enabled those without power in the ancien régime to organize and order social spaces where they could have autonomy and offset their political impotence. The idea that those without power could create an autonomous existence within the ‘gaps and interstices’ of that hierarchical, authoritarian regime offers a potential framework …
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