Georgia Cowart writes about music, art, theater, and the cultural life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Her latest scholarship traces a world in transformation—from the spectacles of Louis XIV’s court to the theaters, fêtes, and visual culture of eighteenth-century Paris.
Her newest book, After the King: Watteau, Spectacle, and the Poetics of Memory, was published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2026. This site brings together books and articles produced over a lifetime of scholarship.
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