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Jennifer Birkett

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in West Riding of Yorkshire, England, The United Kingdom

March 26, 1946

Jennifer Birkett is Emeritus Professor of French Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. She held the Established Chair of French Studies from 1990 to 2011, having previously been Professor of French at the University of Strathclyde. Her research is grounded in French Studies and is strongly interdisciplinary, focusing on the relations between history, politics, ideology, and narrative form. Her specialist interests include the fin de siècle, women’s writing, eighteenth-century fiction, modern drama, and Franco-British cultural exchanges. She has held senior academic leadership roles, including President of the Association of Professors and Heads of Departments of French, and played ...more

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	Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France 1870-1914 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margaret Storm Jameson: A Life 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Guide to French Literature: Early Modern to Postmodern by Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body and the Dream: French Erotic Fiction 1464-1900 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samuel Beckett 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undoing Time: The Life and Work of Samuel Beckett 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Determined Women: Studies in the Construction of the Female Subject, 1900–90 by Jennifer Birkett (editor), Elizabeth Harvey (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French in the 90s 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arts Graduate in Society: Proceedings of the Dundee Conference, September 1985 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness into glamorous thrill, seduces the onlooker into the game – and leaves him or her with the corpse on his hands.”
― Jennifer Birkett

tags: art, corpse, corruption, mask, seduction, squalor, thrills, vice

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“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.”
― Jennifer Birkett

tags: decadence, decadents, guilt, masochism, murder, punishment

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“The decadent artist markets other people's pain”
― Jennifer Birkett

tags: consumerism, decadence, decadent, pain

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