Susan Dalton
- Professeure agrégée
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département d'histoire
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-6102
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Affiliations
- Membre – CCÉAE — Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes
Education Programs
- Social Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Humanities
- Literature and Languages Humanities
Courses
- HST1041 L'Europe moderne
- HST2263 La Révolution française et l'Empire
- HST3210 L'Italie à l'époque du Grand Tour
Areas of Expertise
- Sexual and gender identity
- Identity
- Cultural heritage
- Social history
- 18th century
- France
- Italy
- 19th century
Following on my work on the history of women in the 18th century, I have been studying theoretical gender issues and in particular the relationship between the public and private spheres at the time. Looking at the sociability of salonnières in France and Venice, I realized that this public/private distinction was difficult to maintain in reality.
My current research looks at Venetian salonnières (like Giustina Renier Michiel and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi) and the men who attended their salons (like Ugo Foscolo, Ippolito Pindemonte and Melchiorre Cesarotti), in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
In particular, I have found that these salonnières drew on the roles they played in literary salons to offer themselves as cultural intermediaries in their publications, by simplifying the erudite writings of men of letters in their circle and making them accessible to a wider readership. I am also a member of the Interacting with Print research group.
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Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
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Pratiques culturelles de l'intermédialité en Europe de 1700 à 1900 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2015 - 2018
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Publications principales
Engendering the Republic of Letters: Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
« Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as Cultural Mediator: Gender and Writing on Art in Early Nineteenth-Century Venice ». Women’s History Review, 23, 2 (2014): 204-219.
« Women's History of the Risorgimento : A Historiographic Review ». Dans E. Brambilla et Anne Jacobson Schutte, dirs. La storia di genere in Italia in età moderna. Un confronto tra storiche nordamericane e italiane, Rome, Viella, 2014, 159-180.
« Women, Politics and Culture at the end of the Republic of Venice ». Dans Paula Findlen, Catherine Samà et Wendy Wassyng, dir., Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Power in the Age of the Grand Tour, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2009, 79-100.
« Searching for Virtue: Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi’s Ritratti ». Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40, 1 (automne 2006), 85-108.
« Gender and the Shifting Ground of Revolutionary Politics: The Case of Madame Roland ». Annales canadiennes d’histoire, 36 (août 2001), 259-282.
Additional Information
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Engendering the Republic of Letters : Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Dalton, Susan, Engendering the Republic of Letters. Reconnecting Public and Private Spheres in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Montréal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003, ix/206 p. ISBN : 0-7735-2618-8.
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