Recently added articles from Nineteenth-Century French Studies:

Signs of origin: Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal.

Mar 22, 2008; Bonin, Kathrine M. ... Critics do not agree on how to read Victor Hugo's first work of narrative fiction, Bug-Jargal (published 18zo, revised 1826). Set during the 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Bug-Jargal relates the story of a white French aristocrat, Leopold d'Auverney, ...

Signs of reading and the subject of love in Stendhal's De l'amour.

Mar 22, 2008; Hunter, Angela N. ... Stendhal's De l'amour (1822) analyzes the structural elements of love's unfolding, including seemingly inconsequential details and obscure associations of sentiment at work in the amorous subject. In seeking the origin of love in the lover, Stendhal discovers the psychical process he will ...

The bird's-eye view: looking at the city in Paris and Algiers.

Mar 22, 2008; Graebner, Seth ... In an engraving from 1830, three men sit in the basket of a tethered balloon, floating above a city shrouded in smoke. One shades himself with a parasol, another holds aloft a champagne bottle as if to celebrate victory, and the third inspects the landscape with a short telescope or ...

"Le Charbon ardent" in Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu and "Des artistes".

Mar 22, 2008; Uhden, Raina F. ... And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!" Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph ...

The sonnet as snapshot: seizing the instant in Baudelaire's "a une passante".

Mar 22, 2008; Blood, Susan ... The birth of modernity has been recounted in a variety of ways, but a common version of the story runs along the following lines: at some point in the mid-nineteenth century, something happened to change the texture of human experience. Whatever the reasons for this change, it manifested ...

Savoir c'est pouvoir: Integral Education in the Novels of Andre Leo.

Mar 22, 2008; Beach, Cecilia ... Andre Leo (1824-1900), author of over twenty socially conscious novels, is best known as a participant in the Commune; her name is often mentioned alongside that of Louise Michel as one of the "Petroleuses." (1) Her actual role in the Commune was however quite minimal while her activity as ...

The Anarchic Commune as World's Fair in Emile Zola's Travail (1).

Mar 22, 2008; Febles, Eduardo A. ... When asked to write an article for Fernand Labori's Grande Revue treating the Parisian World's Fair of 1900, Zola refused by disengaging himself from the festivities. In a letter dated March 15% 1900, the very same day that he would sit down at his desk to write the first page of the novel ...

Le struggleforlife: contesting Balzac through Darwin in Zola, Bourget, and Barres.

Mar 22, 2008; Lyle, Louise ... Charles Darwin published his theory of natural selection in The Origin of Species in England in 1859. While his ideas provoked international controversy, historians are unanimous in the view that the French were particularly hostile towards Darwin on both scientific and moral grounds. (1) ...

Leff, Lisa Moses. Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Samuels, Maurice ... Leff, Lisa Moses. Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Pp. 327. ISBN 978-0-8047-5251-0 Home today to the largest population of both Muslims and Jews in Western Europe, France has ...

Grenouillet, Corinne, and Eleonore Reverzy, eds. Les Voix du peuple dans la litterature des [XIX.sup.e] et [XX.sup.e] siecles (Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, 12-14 mai 2005).(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Lyons, Martyn ... Grenouillet, Corinne, and Eleonore Reverzy, eds. Les Voix du peuple dans la litterature des XIXe et XX siecles (Actes du colloque de Strasbourg, 12-14 mai 2005). Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2006. Pp. 399. ISBN 2-8680E0-296-9 The short title of this ...

Newman, Karen. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Johnson, Warren ... Newman, Karen. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xii + 200. ISBN: 0-691-12754-9 The nineteenth-century city is often thought the culmination of urbanization. Not only were new technologies applied to sanitation, ...

McCready, Susan. The Limits of Performance in the French Romantic Theatre.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Pao, Angela C. ... McCready, Susan. The Limits of Performance in the French Romantic Theatre. Durham: Durham Modern Language Series, 2007. Pp. 145. ISBN 978-0907310-59-4 It is still relatively rare for 19th-century French theatre and drama to be considered appropriate or rewarding material for ...

Schreier, Lise. Seul dans l'orient lointain: Les voyages de Nerval et Du Camp.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Mizuno, Hisashi ... Schreier, Lise. Seul dans l'orient lointain: Les voyages de Nerval et Du Camp. Sainte-Etienne: Presses Universitaires de Sainte-Etienne, 2006. Pp. 174. ISBN 2-86272-427-0. On peut considerer le dix-neuvieme siecle comme le siecle du voyage litteraire. A cette epoque, beaucoup ...

Olcay, Tijen. Istanbul face aux regards: visions, illusions, illuminations dans les arts et les recits des voyageurs francais aux [XIX.sup.eme] et [XX.sup.eme] siecles [sic], Theophile Gautier, Pierre Loti, Alain Robbe-Grillet.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Monicat, Benedicte ... Olcay, Tijen. Istanbul face aux regards: Visions, illusions, illuminations dans les arts et les recits des voyageurs francais aux XIXeme et XXeme siecles [sic], Theophile Gautier, Pierre Loti, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. Pp. 282. ISBN 3-631-54978-4 ...

Gautschi-Lanz, Catherine. Le Roman a table: Nourritures et repas imiginaires dans le roman francais, 1850-1900.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Johnson, Leonard W. ... Gautschi-Lanz, Catherine. Le Roman a table: Nourritures et repas imiginaires dans le roman francais, 1850-1900. Geneva: Slatkine, 2006. Pp. 262. ISBN 2-05-101927-4 Like desire, the body, and the garden, food has become of late a recognized focus or, perhaps more precisely, locus ...

Toth, Stephen A. Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Strange, Carolyn ... Toth, Stephen A. Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 216. ISBN 0-803-24449-5 This book is the third instalment in the University of Nebraska Press's "France overseas: studies in empire and ...

Bonds, Mark Evan. Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Frogley, Alain ... Bonds, Mark Evan. Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi+ 169. ISBN: 978-0-691-12659-3 Partway through his fascinating book, Mark Evan Bonds briefly alludes to a skirmish in the protracted ...

Moscovici, Claudia. Romanticism and Postromanticism.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Pappas, Sara ... Moscovici, Claudia. Romanticism and Postromanticism. Lanham: Lexington, 2007. Pp. ix + 123. ISBN 978-9-7391-1674-6 Romanticism and Postromanticism undertakes an ambitious project: to argue for the continuing importance of Romanticism in the arts, even after modernism and ...

Reynaud, Cecile. Liszt et le virtuose romantique.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Powell, David A. ... Reynaud, Cecile. Liszt et le virtuose romantique. Paris: Champion, 2006. Pp. 403. ISBN 2-7453-1282-0 For anyone interested in the breadth and development of musical culture in France in the 19th century, Liszt et le virtuose romantique is an informative monograph, providing ...

Hamrick, L. Cassandra, and Suzanne Nash, eds. Sculpture et poetique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789-1859. Nineteenth-Century French Studies.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Wright, Barbara ... Hamrick, L. Cassandra, and Suzanne Nash, eds. Sculpture et poetique: Sculpture and Literature in France, 1789-1859. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Fall 2006, Vol. 35, No. 1. Pp. 309. ISSN 0146-7891 "Ut sculptura poesis" works as a phrase, because the term "image" is ...