18th Century

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Geoffrey Turnovsky
Professor of French

Latest News

Geoffrey Turnovsky Featured in The History of Literature Podcast (October 21, 2024)
Call for Papers: International Colloquium on French History and Literature at the University of Chicago (January 17, 2023)
Louisa Mackenzie Contributes to New Book Early Modern Écologies (April 3, 2020)
French Alumni Peadar Kavanagh to Start PhD Program at the University of Chicago (March 14, 2018)

Related Research

Review of Mark Curran, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts. £110.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 9781441178909; Simon Burrows, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II: Enlightenment Bestsellers. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xvi + 254 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts. £110.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 9781441126016.
Lisa Jane Graham and Geoffrey Turnovsky, eds. "Looking for Readings in Early Modern France: Forum," French Historical Studies41, 3 (August 2018).
"Literary History Meets the History of Reading: The Case of La Princesse de Clèves and its (Non)readers," French Historical Studies 41, 3 (August 2018): 427-447.
"Crying into Print: Sentimental Reading, Spiritual Exaltation, and Typographic Standardization," The Romanic Review 107, 1-4 (2016): 103-126.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, "Touched by an Author: Books and 'Intensive' Reading in the Late Eighteenth Century," Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation in Print and Other Media, ed. Martin Butler, Albrecht Hausmann, Anton Kirchhofer (Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2016), 135-155
Geoffrey Turnovsky, "Les lecteurs du Mercure Galant. Trois aperçus," XVIIe Siècle 270 (Jan-Mars 2016): 65-80.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, "Authorial Poverty and Transformations in Readership, 1750-1850. The Case of Nicholas Gilbert," Romanic Review 103, 3-4 (November 2012 [appeared in December 2013]): 439-464. Joanna Stalnaker and NIcholas Cronk, eds.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, review of Robert Darnton, The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. H-France Forum. vol. 5, Issue 5 (Fall 2010).
Yuqiu Meng. "At the Crossroads of Colonialism, Empire and Revolution: The 'Old Colonies' in French Literature 1788-1848." Diss., 2010.
Geoffrey Turnovsky. "The making of a name: a life of Voltaire." The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire, ed. Nicholas Cronk. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 17-30.