Professor Joan Coutu publishes a new book

Professor Joan Coutu's second book will soon be available from McGill-Queen's University Press.  Then and Now: Collections and Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England is an account of the British aristocracy's relationship with the classical world.

"In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals. By charting this changing preference within a broader study of material culture, Joan Coutu examines the evolving articulation of the English gentleman."