Books by Anthony J. La Vopa

The Labor of the Mind plumbs the Enlightenment's social and cultural logic of conceiving the mind as manly; considers the textual representations of the manly mind; and examines the ways in which it was subverted or at least subtly questioned.

Poor students experienced a kind of upward mobility that was not uncommon in old-regime Europe, which raised socially and politically sensitive questions. In addition to reconstructing the experience of poor students, this 1988 book uncovers the prescriptive norms inherent in both negative and positive perceptions of them.