Venita Datta
Biographic Data
| ID | 766889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Venita Datta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Venita |
| FAMILY NAME | Datta |
| SIGNATURE | DATTA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France
Les noms d'époque: De « Restauration » à « années de plomb »
Le temps est la matière vive de l’Histoire, que l’on s’attache de longue date à découper et à périodiser. Ainsi sont nés les époques, les périodes ou les âges de notre histoire. À ces 'divisions imaginaires du temps', selon l’expression de Charles Seignobos, les historiens ont consacré de nombreux et importants travaux. Un aspect est demeuré cependant en retrait : celui qui a trait aux noms et dénominations de ces époques. On ne s’est en effet ja…
Sarah Shurts. Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
Intellectuals in France have long been icons of national identity. Scholarship on the history of French intellectuals took off in the 1980s and 1990s—at a time marked by discussions about the supposed irrelevance of intellectuals in national life—with numerous works published on both sides of the Atlantic by Pascal Ory, Jean-François Sirinelli, Michel Winock, Christophe Charle, Tony Judt, and Robert Wohl, among others. While some of these works a…
Buffalo Bill Goes to France
In 1889 and 1905 William F. Cody, commonly known as Buffalo Bill, took his Wild West show on a tour of Europe, playing to sellout crowds on both trips. Although at first glance Buffalo Bill may appear to be a symbol of the vanishing American West, he also represented the power of the new American colossus, embodied by the conquest of the frontier through the technology of the rifle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a symbol of American invention and …
Patrick McGuinness, Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française
Putting the "Studies" in French Studies: Historians and social scientists in departments of French
The eight authors of this article, all historians or social scientists teaching in departments of French at American universities, assess the multidisciplinary field of “French Studies” today. The article elaborates on our experiences teaching and researching French and francophone history, society, politics, and culture. In particular, it addresses pedagogical challenges, study abroad, interdepartmental collaboration, institutional pressures, th…
Camille Robcis. The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
While the family occupies a central place in the definition of national identity in many cultures, it is perhaps in France that the notion of kinship is most closely associated with public debates about the nation. In the United States, for example, religion plays an important role in shaping discussions about what constitutes a family. In France, however, as Camille Robcis illustrates, academic discourses of structural anthropology and Lacanian …
France Grenaudier-Klijn, Elizabeth-Christine Muelsch & Jean Anderson (dir.), É: Vincennes, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012, 315 p
Ce recueil d’essais rassemblés par une équipe internationale de chercheurs examine la représentation des hommes dans les œuvres de neuf écrivaines de la Belle Époque. Le volume est composé de onze essais sur neuf écrivaines dont certaines, telle Colette, sont toujours célèbres. La plupart cependant sont beaucoup moins connues aujourd’hui, sauf par des spécialistes. Pourtant, pendant leur époque, elles furent les auteures de best-sellers ou couron…
Theatres en capitales: Naissance de la societe du spectacle a Paris, Berlin, Londres et Vienne, by Christophe Charle
Paris at the fin de siècle was ‘a stage, a vast theater for herself and all the world’, wrote Roger Shattuck in his now classic work, The Banquet Years (1968). He was referring not only to the theatricality of fin-de-siècle politics and culture but also to the important role the theatre played in French national life. This book, the latest work of eminent French historian Christophe Charle, aims precisely to illustrate the key role which the thea…
Constructing charisma: Celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe
Introduction Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi Part I: Constructing Chapter 1. Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914. Edward Berenson Chapter 2. 'So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword': Autograph-hunting and Royal in the German Empire, 1861-1888. Eva Giloi Chapter 3. Workings of Royal Celebrity: Wilhelm II as Media Emperor. Martin Kohlrausch Part II: as Performance Chapter 4. From the Top: Liszt's Aristocratic…
Sur les Boulevards: Les représentations de Jeanne d'Arc dans le théâtre populaire*1
Dans cet article, nous nous proposons d’examiner la représentation de Jeanne d’Arc au théâtre de boulevard, à partir des deux pièces de la fin de siècle les plus connues sur le sujet: « Jeanne d’Arc » : l’une de Jules Barbier (avec une musique de Gounod, montée en 1890 au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, avec Sarah Bernhardt dans le rôle de Jeanne), l’autre étant « Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc » d’Émile Moreau (représentée au Théâtre Sarah-Bernhard…
L'appel Au Soldat”: Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque
Research Article| February 01 2005 "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque Venita Datta Venita Datta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Venita Datta; "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popula…
Birth of a National Icon. The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France
La Revue blanche: Un milieu parisien fin de siècle
A Bohemian Festival: La Fête de la Vache Enragée
In 1896 and again in 1897, Montmartre Bohemians, led by artist Adolphe Willette, organized the Fete de la Vache Enragee, a festival which parodied the traditional Fete du Boeuf Gras associated with Mardi Gras festivities. Instead of celebrating the fatted calf, a symbol of plenty, the Fete de la Vache Enragee was dedicated to the poor of the Butte, who were reduced to hunger and starvation or, in popular slang, 'manger de la vache enrage indeed, …
La "Civilisation francaise" aux Etas-Unis
La « civilisation française » aux États-Unis
Datta Venita. La « civilisation française » aux États-Unis. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°35, juillet-septembre 1992. pp. 107-109
The Soviet Revolutions and India's Struggle for Freedom
The Soviet Revolutions and India's Struggle for Freedom: A Review Article: Vivekanand Shukla, Soviet Revolutions and the Indian National Movement. Perceptions of Indian Media, Delhi, 1989, 235p., Rs. 225
India History Iqbal Singh: Rammohun Roy : A Biographical Inquiry into the Making of Modern India. Volume I: The First Phase. Asia Publishing House, New Delhi, 1983, vii, 334 p., Rs. 125
India: The Congress Splits By Basant Chatterjee. S. Chand & Co., Delhi, ix, 355 p. Rs 30
Birth of a National Icon. The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France
L'appel Au Soldat”: Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque
Research Article| February 01 2005 "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque Venita Datta Venita Datta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Venita Datta; "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popula…
A Bohemian Festival: La Fête de la Vache Enragée
In 1896 and again in 1897, Montmartre Bohemians, led by artist Adolphe Willette, organized the Fete de la Vache Enragee, a festival which parodied the traditional Fete du Boeuf Gras associated with Mardi Gras festivities. Instead of celebrating the fatted calf, a symbol of plenty, the Fete de la Vache Enragee was dedicated to the poor of the Butte, who were reduced to hunger and starvation or, in popular slang, 'manger de la vache enrage indeed, …
Buffalo Bill Goes to France
In 1889 and 1905 William F. Cody, commonly known as Buffalo Bill, took his Wild West show on a tour of Europe, playing to sellout crowds on both trips. Although at first glance Buffalo Bill may appear to be a symbol of the vanishing American West, he also represented the power of the new American colossus, embodied by the conquest of the frontier through the technology of the rifle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a symbol of American invention and …
La Revue blanche: Un milieu parisien fin de siècle
India: The Congress Splits By Basant Chatterjee. S. Chand & Co., Delhi, ix, 355 p. Rs 30
India History Iqbal Singh: Rammohun Roy : A Biographical Inquiry into the Making of Modern India. Volume I: The First Phase. Asia Publishing House, New Delhi, 1983, vii, 334 p., Rs. 125
The Soviet Revolutions and India's Struggle for Freedom
The Soviet Revolutions and India's Struggle for Freedom: A Review Article: Vivekanand Shukla, Soviet Revolutions and the Indian National Movement. Perceptions of Indian Media, Delhi, 1989, 235p., Rs. 225
La "Civilisation francaise" aux Etas-Unis
La « civilisation française » aux États-Unis
Datta Venita. La « civilisation française » aux États-Unis. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°35, juillet-septembre 1992. pp. 107-109
A Bohemian Festival: La Fête de la Vache Enragée
In 1896 and again in 1897, Montmartre Bohemians, led by artist Adolphe Willette, organized the Fete de la Vache Enragee, a festival which parodied the traditional Fete du Boeuf Gras associated with Mardi Gras festivities. Instead of celebrating the fatted calf, a symbol of plenty, the Fete de la Vache Enragee was dedicated to the poor of the Butte, who were reduced to hunger and starvation or, in popular slang, 'manger de la vache enrage indeed, …
La Revue blanche: Un milieu parisien fin de siècle
Birth of a National Icon. The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the Intellectual in France
L'appel Au Soldat”: Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque
Research Article| February 01 2005 "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popular Culture of the Belle Epoque Venita Datta Venita Datta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2005) 28 (1): 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-28-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Venita Datta; "L'appel Au Soldat": Visions of the Napoleonic Legend in Popula…
Sur les Boulevards: Les représentations de Jeanne d'Arc dans le théâtre populaire*1
Dans cet article, nous nous proposons d’examiner la représentation de Jeanne d’Arc au théâtre de boulevard, à partir des deux pièces de la fin de siècle les plus connues sur le sujet: « Jeanne d’Arc » : l’une de Jules Barbier (avec une musique de Gounod, montée en 1890 au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, avec Sarah Bernhardt dans le rôle de Jeanne), l’autre étant « Le Procès de Jeanne d’Arc » d’Émile Moreau (représentée au Théâtre Sarah-Bernhard…
Constructing charisma: Celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe
Introduction Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi Part I: Constructing Chapter 1. Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914. Edward Berenson Chapter 2. 'So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword': Autograph-hunting and Royal in the German Empire, 1861-1888. Eva Giloi Chapter 3. Workings of Royal Celebrity: Wilhelm II as Media Emperor. Martin Kohlrausch Part II: as Performance Chapter 4. From the Top: Liszt's Aristocratic…
Theatres en capitales: Naissance de la societe du spectacle a Paris, Berlin, Londres et Vienne, by Christophe Charle
Paris at the fin de siècle was ‘a stage, a vast theater for herself and all the world’, wrote Roger Shattuck in his now classic work, The Banquet Years (1968). He was referring not only to the theatricality of fin-de-siècle politics and culture but also to the important role the theatre played in French national life. This book, the latest work of eminent French historian Christophe Charle, aims precisely to illustrate the key role which the thea…
France Grenaudier-Klijn, Elizabeth-Christine Muelsch & Jean Anderson (dir.), É: Vincennes, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012, 315 p
Ce recueil d’essais rassemblés par une équipe internationale de chercheurs examine la représentation des hommes dans les œuvres de neuf écrivaines de la Belle Époque. Le volume est composé de onze essais sur neuf écrivaines dont certaines, telle Colette, sont toujours célèbres. La plupart cependant sont beaucoup moins connues aujourd’hui, sauf par des spécialistes. Pourtant, pendant leur époque, elles furent les auteures de best-sellers ou couron…
Camille Robcis. The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
While the family occupies a central place in the definition of national identity in many cultures, it is perhaps in France that the notion of kinship is most closely associated with public debates about the nation. In the United States, for example, religion plays an important role in shaping discussions about what constitutes a family. In France, however, as Camille Robcis illustrates, academic discourses of structural anthropology and Lacanian …
Putting the "Studies" in French Studies: Historians and social scientists in departments of French
The eight authors of this article, all historians or social scientists teaching in departments of French at American universities, assess the multidisciplinary field of “French Studies” today. The article elaborates on our experiences teaching and researching French and francophone history, society, politics, and culture. In particular, it addresses pedagogical challenges, study abroad, interdepartmental collaboration, institutional pressures, th…
Patrick McGuinness, Poetry and Radical Politics in Fin de Siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française
Buffalo Bill Goes to France
In 1889 and 1905 William F. Cody, commonly known as Buffalo Bill, took his Wild West show on a tour of Europe, playing to sellout crowds on both trips. Although at first glance Buffalo Bill may appear to be a symbol of the vanishing American West, he also represented the power of the new American colossus, embodied by the conquest of the frontier through the technology of the rifle. Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a symbol of American invention and …
Sarah Shurts. Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
Intellectuals in France have long been icons of national identity. Scholarship on the history of French intellectuals took off in the 1980s and 1990s—at a time marked by discussions about the supposed irrelevance of intellectuals in national life—with numerous works published on both sides of the Atlantic by Pascal Ory, Jean-François Sirinelli, Michel Winock, Christophe Charle, Tony Judt, and Robert Wohl, among others. While some of these works a…
Les noms d'époque: De « Restauration » à « années de plomb »
Le temps est la matière vive de l’Histoire, que l’on s’attache de longue date à découper et à périodiser. Ainsi sont nés les époques, les périodes ou les âges de notre histoire. À ces 'divisions imaginaires du temps', selon l’expression de Charles Seignobos, les historiens ont consacré de nombreux et importants travaux. Un aspect est demeuré cependant en retrait : celui qui a trait aux noms et dénominations de ces époques. On ne s’est en effet ja…
Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France
Art (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Art history (6 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works)