Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber6/1/2023 While conducting research for her book Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Weber discovered one unknown and one lost essay by Marcel Proust about Parisian high society. The biographical novel focused on Antoinette's control over her image through her autonomy of fashion. While there, her book Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution was published in 2007 and described Antoinette's life starting from her arrival from Austria into France. Īfter seven years at the University of Pennsylvania, Weber joined the faculty at Columbia University as a professor of French and Comparative Literature. While at the University of Pennsylvania, she authored Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words and the French Revolution and co-edited Fragments of Revolution with Howard G. Career Īfter earning her PhD, Weber joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Romance Languages. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in literature ( summa cum laude) from Harvard University and her PhD in French literature from Yale University. Her book Proust's Duchess was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. She is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College within Columbia University.
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