Emma Claussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 951212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Claussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Claussen |
| SIGNATURE | CLAUSSEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2520-8591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reports on Conferences and Other Activities
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row , Queer Velocities
‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne
This article explores Étienne La Boétie's discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne's accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on life in his source texts, such as Seneca's ‘On the Brevity of Life’: the life of servitude is almost antithetical to any ‘good life’, and indeed is scarcely life at all. Giorgio Agamben's concept of ‘bare life’ and Orlando Patterson's characterisation …
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe
This chapter introduces the reader to the world of fiction and disinformation in early modern Europe. It starts by placing fiction and disinformation in the context of wider trends and developments, while also drawing a parallel between present practices and concerns and those of the early modern period (Section I). The chapter then surveys existing scholarship on these themes, highlighting the novelty of recent research and the transformative po…
What Remains
Jean Racine’s Athalie (1691) is based on an Old Testament episode from the Book of Kings.1 In the biblical account, Athalie/Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel and Ahab, goes on a murderous rampage against her own family after the death of her parents and son, and re-establishes the worship of Baal in Judaea.2 But one grandchild, named Joas in Racine’s retelling, survives the slaughter, thus preserving David’s line and the genealogical path to the Mess…
Jean Bodin, ‘This Pre-Eminent Man of France’
This book is a timely attempt to ‘fill a gap in the available literature on one of France’s most significant thinkers’. It is a learned, elegant work, coming at what is a fertile moment in Bodin studies thanks in part to the author’s recent edited volume, The Reception of Bodin; other key contributions include the Harvard Bodin Project and the recent edition of Bodin’s Démonomanie. Lloyd is clear about what we do not know about the enigmatic Bodi…
A Sixteenth-Century Modern? Ancients and Moderns in Loys Le Roy's De la Vicissitude
Loys Le Roy's final work, De la Vicissitude ou variété des choses en l'univers (1575), has often been cited as one of the earliest Modern interventions in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. This article explores what might be Modern about this text via a close reading of its final chapter. It draws on Cave's theory of pre-histories to situate Le Roy within the broader context of the Querelle as well as to offer a reading of Le Roy's juxtap…
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe
This chapter introduces the reader to the world of fiction and disinformation in early modern Europe. It starts by placing fiction and disinformation in the context of wider trends and developments, while also drawing a parallel between present practices and concerns and those of the early modern period (Section I). The chapter then surveys existing scholarship on these themes, highlighting the novelty of recent research and the transformative po…
A Sixteenth-Century Modern? Ancients and Moderns in Loys Le Roy's De la Vicissitude
Loys Le Roy's final work, De la Vicissitude ou variété des choses en l'univers (1575), has often been cited as one of the earliest Modern interventions in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. This article explores what might be Modern about this text via a close reading of its final chapter. It draws on Cave's theory of pre-histories to situate Le Roy within the broader context of the Querelle as well as to offer a reading of Le Roy's juxtap…
A Sixteenth-Century Modern? Ancients and Moderns in Loys Le Roy's De la Vicissitude
Loys Le Roy's final work, De la Vicissitude ou variété des choses en l'univers (1575), has often been cited as one of the earliest Modern interventions in the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. This article explores what might be Modern about this text via a close reading of its final chapter. It draws on Cave's theory of pre-histories to situate Le Roy within the broader context of the Querelle as well as to offer a reading of Le Roy's juxtap…
Jean Bodin, ‘This Pre-Eminent Man of France’
This book is a timely attempt to ‘fill a gap in the available literature on one of France’s most significant thinkers’. It is a learned, elegant work, coming at what is a fertile moment in Bodin studies thanks in part to the author’s recent edited volume, The Reception of Bodin; other key contributions include the Harvard Bodin Project and the recent edition of Bodin’s Démonomanie. Lloyd is clear about what we do not know about the enigmatic Bodi…
What Remains
Jean Racine’s Athalie (1691) is based on an Old Testament episode from the Book of Kings.1 In the biblical account, Athalie/Athaliah, daughter of Jezebel and Ahab, goes on a murderous rampage against her own family after the death of her parents and son, and re-establishes the worship of Baal in Judaea.2 But one grandchild, named Joas in Racine’s retelling, survives the slaughter, thus preserving David’s line and the genealogical path to the Mess…
‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne
This article explores Étienne La Boétie's discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne's accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on life in his source texts, such as Seneca's ‘On the Brevity of Life’: the life of servitude is almost antithetical to any ‘good life’, and indeed is scarcely life at all. Giorgio Agamben's concept of ‘bare life’ and Orlando Patterson's characterisation …
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe
This chapter introduces the reader to the world of fiction and disinformation in early modern Europe. It starts by placing fiction and disinformation in the context of wider trends and developments, while also drawing a parallel between present practices and concerns and those of the early modern period (Section I). The chapter then surveys existing scholarship on these themes, highlighting the novelty of recent research and the transformative po…
Reports on Conferences and Other Activities
Jennifer Eun-Jung Row , Queer Velocities
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)