How Long to Read Bad Subjects

How Long Does it Take to Read Bad Subjects?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 10 minutes to read Bad Subjects by Jennifer J. Davis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In a lively account that spans continents, Jennifer J. Davis considers what it meant to be called a libertine in early modern France and its colonies. Libertinage was a polysemous term in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World, generally translated as “debauchery” or “licentiousness” in English. Davis assesses the changing fortunes of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic, based on hundreds of cases drawn from the police and judicial archives of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and its Atlantic colonies alongside the literature inspired by those proceedings. The libertine life was not merely a subject for fiction nor a topos against which to play out potential revolutions. It was a charge authorities imposed on a startlingly wide array of behaviors, including gambling, selling alcohol to Native Americans, and secret marriages. Once invoked by family and state authorities, the charge proved nearly impossible for the accused to contest, for a libertine need not have committed any crimes to be perceived as disregarding authority and thereby threatening families and social institutions. The research in Bad Subjects provides a framework for analysis of libertinage as a set of anti-authoritarian practices and discourses that circulated among the peoples of France and the Atlantic World, ultimately providing a compelling blueprint for alternative social and economic order in the Revolutionary period.

How long is Bad Subjects?

Bad Subjects by Jennifer J. Davis is 370 pages long, and a total of 92,500 words.

This makes it 125% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Bad Subjects Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read Bad Subjects aloud.

What Reading Level is Bad Subjects?

Bad Subjects is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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