Recently added articles from Nineteenth-Century French Studies:
The abyss of freedom: legitimacy, unity, and irony in Constant's Adolphe.(Benjamin Constant)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, written in 1806 and published twelve years later, has often been read as a fictionalized confession, or at the least as an earnest story about the tragic vicissitudes of love, its every pronouncement a pearl of wisdom fully worthy of our pious contemplation ....
Stendhal's heroines: escaping history through history.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... History was a site of supreme masculine privilege in nineteenth-century France; not only was it primarily by and about men, it was also largely read by men. Any study of history that went beyond the limits of Walter Scott's novels was generally deemed inappropriate for the French women of ...
Rodolphe Topffer and romanticism.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... "En attendant l'ouverture des cours, Albert declame du Hugo. / Ce qui frappe Albert dans son Hugo, ce sont les prefaces, a cause des doctrines. / A partir de ce jour, Albert comprend pourquoi les elemens [sic] l'ont tant ennuye; c'est qu'il lui fallait des doctrines" (4). Thus begins an ...
"Cauteriser la plaie": the Lorette as social ill in the Goncourts and Eugene Sue.(Edmond and Jules de Goncourt)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Throughout the nineteenth century, French writers centered their ambivalence to changes brought about by capitalism, modernity, revolution as well as evolving gender roles on the figure of the prostitute, fantasizing that these problems could be eradicated through her destruction, ...
"Un Artiste en matiere de chiffons": the rag-picker as a figure for the artist in Champfleury's La Mascarade de la vie parisienne.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 1859, on the cover of the Journal Amusant, a caricature of Champfleury by Nadar appeared (reprinted in Abeles 23). This showed a bespectacled and impressively moustachioed Champfleury with a crochet and a hotte, the traditional accoutrements of the chiffonnier. Champfleury is rooting ...