Joan DeJean

18 books

Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle by Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Joan DeJean

Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle

Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Joan DeJean

86 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history informative inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--And the Modern Home Began by Joan Dejean

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual--And the Modern Home Began

Joan Dejean

295 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history informative slow-paced
The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began by Joan DeJean

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began

Joan DeJean

304 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour by Joan DeJean

The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour

Joan DeJean

302 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted medium-paced
Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937 by Joan DeJean

Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937

Women in Culture and Society

Joan DeJean

402 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry informative reflective slow-paced
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan Dejean

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

Joan Dejean

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history informative slow-paced
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

Joan DeJean

307 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
Letters from a Peruvian Woman by David Kornacker, Françoise de Graffigny

Letters from a Peruvian Woman

David Kornacker, Françoise de Graffigny

174 pages • first pub 1747 (editions)

fiction classics emotional reflective medium-paced
The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis by Joan DeJean

The Queen's Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

Joan DeJean

400 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France by Joan DeJean

The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France

Joan DeJean

224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced