Meghan K Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meghan K Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meghan K |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowdoin College |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4962-9858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Race and Reputations in Eighteenth-Century France
Spontaneous Human Combustion and Claude-Nicolas Le Cat's Hunt for Fame
This article discusses eighteenth-century ideas about spontaneous human combustion: the idea that the human body—but especially the bodies of idle and liquor-drinking women—could burst into flames with no external source. It focuses particularly on the ideas and career strategies of the author of the most well-known text on this phenomenon, the master surgeon, medical popularizer, and academician Claude-Nicolas Le Cat. Le Cat was deeply involved …
Difference and Disease
‘When and why did physicians see diseases of warm climates as fundamentally different from those in cooler climes?’ ‘When did race come to be understood not as an effect, but as itself a cause?’ With these fundamental questions in mind, Suman Seth leads his reader through an assortment of texts drawn from an ambitious expanse of time and space. Seth uses medicine, and in particular medical theories of disease, as a lens through which to view evol…
Learned and Loving
Using the example of Joseph Jérôme Lalande (1730–1807) and his collaborators Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788) and Marie-Jeanne-Amélie LeFrançois (1760–1832), this article reconstructs the work done by women astronomers and examines how Lalande described them in his correspondence and publications. Lalande stressed their emotional sensitivity and deep connections to their family, but made clear that women’s emotions fueled rather than conflicted w…
Sentimental Savants
Philosophes Mariés and Epouses Philosophiques
This article argues that, under the sway of new sentimental ideals and norms of sociability, eighteenth-century men of letters forged a new normative ideal that celebrated intellectual companionate and collaborative marriage. Rather than focusing on homosocial friendship as sufficient proof of their sociability and virtue, as had thinkers from earlier eras, they emphasized their loving family lives as proof of those traits. Moreover, such marriag…
Learned and Loving
Using the example of Joseph Jérôme Lalande (1730–1807) and his collaborators Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788) and Marie-Jeanne-Amélie LeFrançois (1760–1832), this article reconstructs the work done by women astronomers and examines how Lalande described them in his correspondence and publications. Lalande stressed their emotional sensitivity and deep connections to their family, but made clear that women’s emotions fueled rather than conflicted w…
Philosophes Mariés and Epouses Philosophiques
This article argues that, under the sway of new sentimental ideals and norms of sociability, eighteenth-century men of letters forged a new normative ideal that celebrated intellectual companionate and collaborative marriage. Rather than focusing on homosocial friendship as sufficient proof of their sociability and virtue, as had thinkers from earlier eras, they emphasized their loving family lives as proof of those traits. Moreover, such marriag…
Philosophes Mariés and Epouses Philosophiques
This article argues that, under the sway of new sentimental ideals and norms of sociability, eighteenth-century men of letters forged a new normative ideal that celebrated intellectual companionate and collaborative marriage. Rather than focusing on homosocial friendship as sufficient proof of their sociability and virtue, as had thinkers from earlier eras, they emphasized their loving family lives as proof of those traits. Moreover, such marriag…
Sentimental Savants
Learned and Loving
Using the example of Joseph Jérôme Lalande (1730–1807) and his collaborators Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788) and Marie-Jeanne-Amélie LeFrançois (1760–1832), this article reconstructs the work done by women astronomers and examines how Lalande described them in his correspondence and publications. Lalande stressed their emotional sensitivity and deep connections to their family, but made clear that women’s emotions fueled rather than conflicted w…
Difference and Disease
‘When and why did physicians see diseases of warm climates as fundamentally different from those in cooler climes?’ ‘When did race come to be understood not as an effect, but as itself a cause?’ With these fundamental questions in mind, Suman Seth leads his reader through an assortment of texts drawn from an ambitious expanse of time and space. Seth uses medicine, and in particular medical theories of disease, as a lens through which to view evol…
Spontaneous Human Combustion and Claude-Nicolas Le Cat's Hunt for Fame
This article discusses eighteenth-century ideas about spontaneous human combustion: the idea that the human body—but especially the bodies of idle and liquor-drinking women—could burst into flames with no external source. It focuses particularly on the ideas and career strategies of the author of the most well-known text on this phenomenon, the master surgeon, medical popularizer, and academician Claude-Nicolas Le Cat. Le Cat was deeply involved …
Making Race and Reputations in Eighteenth-Century France
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Art and Culture Studies (2 works)