Dena Goodman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dena Goodman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dena |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodman |
| SIGNATURE | GOODMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4963-0463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Affective geographies: Family and friendship in the production of scientific knowledge
Through case studies of two early nineteenth-century French geologists, this article shows how relations of family and friendship were integral to determining where science took place. Digging up the traces of what I call the "affective geographies" of individual scientists that are entangled with their intellectual itineraries, I show how the practice of science is embedded in such affective relations and thus in everyday life
What It Meant to Be Linnaean in Revolutionary France
This essay builds on recent scholarship on Linnaeus to revise our understanding of how and why he became influential in France in the 1790s. It looks in particular at the nontaxonomic writings of Linnaeus (such as the Amoenitates Academicae) and the young men associated with two voluntary societies that emerged in Paris early in the Revolutionary decade—the Société d’Histoire Naturelle and the Société Philomatique—drawing on their minutes as well…
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris, by Antoine Lilti, tr. Lydia G. Cochrane
Ten years after Antoine Lilti’s doctoral dissertation on elite sociability in eighteenth-century Paris was published by Fayard, an abridged version has appeared in an excellent English translation by Lydia Cochrane. As Lilti notes in a brief introduction to the English edition, he has cut the lengthy discussion of historiography and honed his argument. In the Age of Enlightenment, he asserts, the Paris salons remained what they had always been an…
Documenting Art, Writing Biography: Construction of the Silvestre Family History, 1660–1868
This article concerns six generations of the Silvestre family: a succession of artists, royal drawing masters, and art collectors whose social ascent began in the late seventeenth century in parallel with the Bourbon Monarchy and continued after its fall. In this article, we show how the Silvestres legitimized a path of social mobility from seventeenth-century artisans to nineteenth-century aristocrats by narrating and documenting the family’s hi…
Old Media: Lessons from Letters
Editorial| February 01 2013 Old Media: Lessons from Letters Dena Goodman Dena Goodman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2013) 36 (1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-1816464 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dena Goodman; Old Media: Lessons from Letters. French Historical Studies 1 February 2013; 36 (1): 1–17. doi: https://do…
Letter Writing and the Emergence of Gendered Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century France
This article takes up the story of the female subject abandoned by Habermas in a less than hospitable public sphere. Through an analysis of letters written by Geneviève Randon de Malboissière (1746-1766) and Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Phlipon (1754-1793), it reintroduces privateness into our discussion of what it means to become a modern female subject, while introducing notions of subjectivity, practice, and construction into our understanding of the …
L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime
Research Article| April 01 2002 L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime Dena Goodman Dena Goodman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2002) 25 (2): 191–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-25-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dena Goodman; L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime. French…
The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
More than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminist History as Critical Practice
Book reviewed in this article: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man By Joan Wallach Scott
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe Peter N. Miller Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Sev…
In Search of Eighteenth-Century Parisian Public Opinion
The republic of letters: A cultural history of the French enlightenment
In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history. She finds the very epicenter of the Enlightenment in a community of discourse known as the Republic of Letters, where salons governed by women advanced the Enlightenment project "to change the c…
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime. Erica Harth , Shari Benstock , Celeste Schenck
Public Sphere and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches to the Old Regime
This article challenges the false opposition between public and private spheres that is often imposed upon our historical understanding of the Old Regime in France. An analysis of the work of Jurgen Habermas, Reinhart Koselleck, Philippe Aries, and Roger Chartier shows that the authentic public articulated by Habermas was constructed in the private realm, and the of private life identified by Aries was constitutive of Habermas's new public sphere…
The Hume-Rousseau Affair: From Private Querelle to Public Proces
RECENTLY, MUCH ATTENTION HAS BEEN DEVOTED to public opinion in the decades before the French Revolution. ' The current interest is due in iarge part to the importance given to the creation of public opinion in the political culture of the Old Regime that culture within which it became possible to say and do what was said and done in 1789. In their introduction to Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France, Jack Censer and Jeremy Popkin emphas…
Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment
(1991). Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 183-199
La Carmagnole des muses: L'homme de lettres et l'artiste dans la révolution. Jean-Claude Bonnet
Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing
The Martin Guerre Story: A Non-Persian Source for Persian Letter CXLI
In the table of contents of the Lettres persanes Montesquieu identified Letter CXLI as Conte persan: d'Anais et It is not surprising, then, that those who have sought the source of this letter have looked to exotic and erotic texts.1 While the Histoire du jeune roi de Thibet et de la princesse des naimans may have inspired Montesquieu, as Paul Verniere has suggested,2 I think it is more likely that a much less exotic, although no less strange, ta…
Rousseau's Exemplary Life: The "Confessions" as Political Philosophy. Christopher Kelly
Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions
Dena Goodman, Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: The French Revolution in Culture (Spring, 1989), pp. 329-350
Filial Rebellion in the Salon: Madame Geoffrin and Her Daughter
Of the many vignettes of salon life in the eighteenth century, one that stands out is the picture of Mme Necker's salon in which, seated stiffly on a stool, is the girl who would grow up to be Mme de Stael: We see the little Germaine seated next to her mother's armchair on a wooden stool where she is forced to remain very straight, facing the abbe Raynal, Grimm, and Marmontel, who applaud her sallies, or, when she is made to keep quiet, following…
Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution. Carol Blum
Feminine and opposition journalism in old regime France: Le journal des dames
Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France
(1988). Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 367-368
Public Sphere and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches to the Old Regime
This article challenges the false opposition between public and private spheres that is often imposed upon our historical understanding of the Old Regime in France. An analysis of the work of Jurgen Habermas, Reinhart Koselleck, Philippe Aries, and Roger Chartier shows that the authentic public articulated by Habermas was constructed in the private realm, and the of private life identified by Aries was constitutive of Habermas's new public sphere…
Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions
Dena Goodman, Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: The French Revolution in Culture (Spring, 1989), pp. 329-350
Letter Writing and the Emergence of Gendered Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century France
This article takes up the story of the female subject abandoned by Habermas in a less than hospitable public sphere. Through an analysis of letters written by Geneviève Randon de Malboissière (1746-1766) and Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Phlipon (1754-1793), it reintroduces privateness into our discussion of what it means to become a modern female subject, while introducing notions of subjectivity, practice, and construction into our understanding of the …
What It Meant to Be Linnaean in Revolutionary France
This essay builds on recent scholarship on Linnaeus to revise our understanding of how and why he became influential in France in the 1790s. It looks in particular at the nontaxonomic writings of Linnaeus (such as the Amoenitates Academicae) and the young men associated with two voluntary societies that emerged in Paris early in the Revolutionary decade—the Société d’Histoire Naturelle and the Société Philomatique—drawing on their minutes as well…
L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime
Research Article| April 01 2002 L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime Dena Goodman Dena Goodman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2002) 25 (2): 191–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-25-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dena Goodman; L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime. French…
Filial Rebellion in the Salon: Madame Geoffrin and Her Daughter
Of the many vignettes of salon life in the eighteenth century, one that stands out is the picture of Mme Necker's salon in which, seated stiffly on a stool, is the girl who would grow up to be Mme de Stael: We see the little Germaine seated next to her mother's armchair on a wooden stool where she is forced to remain very straight, facing the abbe Raynal, Grimm, and Marmontel, who applaud her sallies, or, when she is made to keep quiet, following…
Documenting Art, Writing Biography: Construction of the Silvestre Family History, 1660–1868
This article concerns six generations of the Silvestre family: a succession of artists, royal drawing masters, and art collectors whose social ascent began in the late seventeenth century in parallel with the Bourbon Monarchy and continued after its fall. In this article, we show how the Silvestres legitimized a path of social mobility from seventeenth-century artisans to nineteenth-century aristocrats by narrating and documenting the family’s hi…
In Search of Eighteenth-Century Parisian Public Opinion
Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment
(1991). Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 183-199
Pigalle's Voltaire nu: The Republic of Letters Represents itself to the World
IN RECENT YEARS much attention has been given to culture of French Revolution, and particularly to its ritual and iconographical dimensions. While Mona Ozouf's work on fete revolutionnaire has been seminal, Maurice Agulhon's study of image of Marianne has extended this cultural approach to Revolution to modern world that it continues to shape.' These studies and those they have inspired have taught us a great deal about how a group or a people ne…
French Women and the Age of Enlightenment . Samia I. Spencer
Pigalle's Voltaire nu: The Republic of Letters Represents itself to the World
IN RECENT YEARS much attention has been given to culture of French Revolution, and particularly to its ritual and iconographical dimensions. While Mona Ozouf's work on fete revolutionnaire has been seminal, Maurice Agulhon's study of image of Marianne has extended this cultural approach to Revolution to modern world that it continues to shape.' These studies and those they have inspired have taught us a great deal about how a group or a people ne…
Diderot: Les Dernières Années, 1770–84
Rousseau, Nature, and History . Asher Horowitz
Feminine and opposition journalism in old regime France: Le journal des dames
Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France
(1988). Press and politics in pre-revolutionary France. History of European Ideas: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 367-368
L'instrument périodique: La fonction de la presse au XVIIIe siècle. Claude Labrosse , Pierre Retat
Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions
Dena Goodman, Enlightenment Salons: The Convergence of Female and Philosophic Ambitions, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue: The French Revolution in Culture (Spring, 1989), pp. 329-350
Filial Rebellion in the Salon: Madame Geoffrin and Her Daughter
Of the many vignettes of salon life in the eighteenth century, one that stands out is the picture of Mme Necker's salon in which, seated stiffly on a stool, is the girl who would grow up to be Mme de Stael: We see the little Germaine seated next to her mother's armchair on a wooden stool where she is forced to remain very straight, facing the abbe Raynal, Grimm, and Marmontel, who applaud her sallies, or, when she is made to keep quiet, following…
Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolution. Carol Blum
Criticism in Action: Enlightenment Experiments in Political Writing
The Martin Guerre Story: A Non-Persian Source for Persian Letter CXLI
In the table of contents of the Lettres persanes Montesquieu identified Letter CXLI as Conte persan: d'Anais et It is not surprising, then, that those who have sought the source of this letter have looked to exotic and erotic texts.1 While the Histoire du jeune roi de Thibet et de la princesse des naimans may have inspired Montesquieu, as Paul Verniere has suggested,2 I think it is more likely that a much less exotic, although no less strange, ta…
Rousseau's Exemplary Life: The "Confessions" as Political Philosophy. Christopher Kelly
The Hume-Rousseau Affair: From Private Querelle to Public Proces
RECENTLY, MUCH ATTENTION HAS BEEN DEVOTED to public opinion in the decades before the French Revolution. ' The current interest is due in iarge part to the importance given to the creation of public opinion in the political culture of the Old Regime that culture within which it became possible to say and do what was said and done in 1789. In their introduction to Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France, Jack Censer and Jeremy Popkin emphas…
Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment
(1991). Governing the republic of letters: The politics of culture in the French enlightenment. History of European Ideas: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 183-199
La Carmagnole des muses: L'homme de lettres et l'artiste dans la révolution. Jean-Claude Bonnet
Public Sphere and Private Life: Toward a Synthesis of Current Historiographical Approaches to the Old Regime
This article challenges the false opposition between public and private spheres that is often imposed upon our historical understanding of the Old Regime in France. An analysis of the work of Jurgen Habermas, Reinhart Koselleck, Philippe Aries, and Roger Chartier shows that the authentic public articulated by Habermas was constructed in the private realm, and the of private life identified by Aries was constitutive of Habermas's new public sphere…
The republic of letters: A cultural history of the French enlightenment
In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history. She finds the very epicenter of the Enlightenment in a community of discourse known as the Republic of Letters, where salons governed by women advanced the Enlightenment project "to change the c…
Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime. Erica Harth , Shari Benstock , Celeste Schenck
In Search of Eighteenth-Century Parisian Public Opinion
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789
Citizenship and Culture in Early Modern Europe Peter N. Miller Charlotte Wells, Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), xviii, 198p. Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994), xviii, 449p. Steven Shapin, The Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Sev…
More than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminist History as Critical Practice
Book reviewed in this article: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man By Joan Wallach Scott
The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment
L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime
Research Article| April 01 2002 L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime Dena Goodman Dena Goodman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2002) 25 (2): 191–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-25-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dena Goodman; L'ortografe Des Dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime. French…
Letter Writing and the Emergence of Gendered Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century France
This article takes up the story of the female subject abandoned by Habermas in a less than hospitable public sphere. Through an analysis of letters written by Geneviève Randon de Malboissière (1746-1766) and Marie-Jeanne (Manon) Phlipon (1754-1793), it reintroduces privateness into our discussion of what it means to become a modern female subject, while introducing notions of subjectivity, practice, and construction into our understanding of the …
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