Gregory S. Brown

Gregory Stephen Brown is an American historian specializing in French history and cultural History. His research regards "Enlightenment France and issues of 'self-fashioning,' performance and printing, patronage, and censorship." [3] He is the General Editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, for the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.[4]

Gregory S. Brown
Born
February 3, 1968, New York, NY
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania,
Columbia University
Known forEarly Modern French history, Age of Enlightenment, French Revolution, eighteenth century France
Spouse(s)Jessica Brown 2006-2018 (div)[1]
ChildrenAaron Brown, Sophia Brown[2]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsColumbia University
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
University of Oxford
Doctoral advisorIsser Woloch

Bibliography

Books
  • Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775–1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française (Studies in European Cultural Transition Book 33) Mar 2, 2017. ISBN 0754603865.[5]
  • A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution (Columbia University Press/ EPIC: 2002). ISBN 978-0231124607[6]
  • Cultures in Conflict: The French Revolution (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003). ISBN 978-0231124607.[7]

Articles and working papers
  • “Beaumarchais, Social Experience and Literary Figures in Eighteenth-Century Life,” SVEC 2005:04 143 – 170.
  • “Règlements royaux et régles du jeu: La propriete litteraire à la Comédie Française au XVIIIe siècle,” Révue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (2004).
  • “Reconsidering the Censorship of Writers in Enlightenment-Era France,” Journal of Modern History (June 2003).
  • “Social Hierarchy and Self-Image in the Age of Enlightenment: The Utility of Norbert Elias for 18th-Century French Historiography,” Journal of Early Modern History 6:1 (Feb. 2002).
  • “The Self-Fashionings of Olympe de Gouges, 1784 – 1789,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34:1 (Spring 2001) 383 – 402.
  • “The Coming of the French Revolution in Multi-Media,” History Teacher 34: 2 (2001) 1 – 14.
  • “After the Fall: The Chute of a Play, Droits d’auteurp, andPropripéptpé littérairen the Old Regimei,” French Historical Studies 22:4 (Fall 1999) 82 – 99 .
  • “Scripting the Patriotic Playwright in Enlightenment-era France: Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s Self-Fashionings, between Court and Public,” Historical Reflections26:1 (2000) 1 – 27.
  • “Dramatic Authorship and the Honor of Men of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France,” Studies on Eighteenth-Century Culture 27 (1998) 257 – 281.
  • “Beaumarchais and the ‘Mémoire sur la “Préface” de Nadir’, “Romance Notes XXXVII: 3 (March 1997) 239 – 249. (Co-authored with Donald C. Spinelli).
  • “Playwriting and Cultural Capital: The Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 347 (1997).
  • “Le Fuel de Méricourt and the Journal des théâtres: An Episode in the Politics of Culture in Prerevolutionary France.” French History IX:1 (March 1995) 1-28.
  • “Critical Responses to Utopian Writings in the French Enlightenment: Three Periodicals as Case Studies.” Utopian Studies V:1 (1994) 48 – 71.

References
  1. "Gregory Brown, Faculty".
  2. "Gregory Brown, Faculty".
  3. "Gregory Brown (History, UNLV), Stanford".
  4. "Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, Gregory S. Brown Biography".
  5. Reviews of Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France:
    • Oliver, Bette W. (2007), Libraries & the Cultural Record, 42 (2): 207–209, JSTOR 25549412CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chappey, Jean-Luc (July–August 2007), Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 62 (4): 937–939, doi:10.1017/S0395264900029176, JSTOR 40285086CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Walton, Charles (June 2009), The Journal of Modern History, 81 (2): 427–428, doi:10.1086/605164, JSTOR 10.1086/605164CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gelbart, Nina Rattner (October 2009), The American Historical Review, 114 (4): 1161–1162, doi:10.1086/ahr.114.4.1161, JSTOR 23883099CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Reviews of A Field of Honor:
    • Margerison, Kenneth (June 2003), The American Historical Review, 108 (3): 923–924, doi:10.1086/529740, JSTOR 10.1086/529740CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Turnovsky, Geoffrey (Winter 2004), "What is an early modern author? Literary practice, publication, and elite sociability in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France", Eighteenth-Century Studies, 37 (2): 325–329, doi:10.1353/ecs.2004.0015, JSTOR 25098056, S2CID 145163366
    • Clay, Lauren (September 2008), The Journal of Modern History, 80 (3): 661–662, doi:10.1086/593415, JSTOR 10.1086/593415CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Astbury, Katherine (October 2008), Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 28 (2): 284–285, doi:10.1111/j.1754-0208.2005.tb00302.xCS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. Reviews of Cultures in Conflict:
    • Chappey, Jean-Luc (July–September 2005), Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 341 (341): 184, doi:10.4000/ahrf.2218, JSTOR 41889256CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Taws, Richard (September 2005), French History, 19 (3): 408, doi:10.1093/fh/cri038CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chekantseva, Zinaida (Fall 2005), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (3): 893–894, doi:10.2307/20477538, JSTOR 20477538CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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