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Author Biography

Jennifer M. Jones is an associate professor in the history department at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on the Enlightenment, the Old Regime and the French Revolution, and the history of fashion and design. Her first book was _Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion, and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France_ (Berg, 2004). She is currently finishing a book on Thérèse Levasseur, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s partner and starting a new project on fashion and art schools in the 19th and 20th century. Musicologist and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess is the Mordecai D. Katz and Dr. Monique C. Katz Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University. Her publications include _Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment_ (2022), _Curious and Modern Inventions: Instrumental Music as Discovery in Galileo's Italy_ (2016), five edited books, and over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has been the recipient of two awards from the American Musicological Society: the 2018 Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance and the 2023 Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection for _Music and Jewish Culture in Early Modern Italy_ (2022).

Abstract

An introduction to a special collection of essays exploring the salon and the senses in eighteenth-century France. Provides an overview of the critical historiography on the salon and the role of salon hostesses. Explores new approaches to salon within the context of the history of the senses, with attention to the role of art, music, and sociability in salon culture. Provides an overview of the essays in the collection.

Keywords

Salons, history of the senses, gender history, eighteenth-century France

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