Nineteenth-Century French Studies back issues from September 2007:
A new service from nineteenth-century French studies.(From the Editor)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2007 ... One of the important services Nineteenth-Century French Studies provides its readers is the extensive and varied book review section, overseen now by a separate Review Editor, Tim Raser. Tim's important work reflects the explosive growth in nineteenth-century French studies beyond the ...
Madame de Stael et Victor Hugo face a la realite et la legende napoleoniennes.
Sep 22, 2007; ... LITTERATURE ET POLITIQUE Des avant l'Empire, le salon parisien de Mme de Stael, ou se retrouvaient ecrivains et hommes politiques d'horizons divers (y compris les freres de Napoleon, Lucien et Joseph), constituait une menace pour le Premier Consul, qui chercha a l'eloigner ...
Stendhal et l'invention de l'intellectuel.
Sep 22, 2007; ... Pour la plupart des commentateurs contemporains l'intellectuel francais moderne est une invention de la fin du 19eme siecle: c'est sous les traits d'Emile Zola qu'il apparait au moment de l'affaire Dreyfus. Ainsi l'affirment des auteurs d'approches aussi diverses que Pascal Ory and ...
Sand's La Mare au diable, Awakening through "evil" and the hero's journey.(George Sand)
Sep 22, 2007; ... A la sueur de ton visaige Tu gaigneras ta pauvre vie, Apres long travail et usaige Voici la mort qui te convie. (1) Sand prefaces La Mare au diable (1846), her best known pastoral novel and probably her most widely read work, with a quotation appearing above a wood carving of ...
Tough love, hard bargains: rape and coercion in Balzac.
Sep 22, 2007; ... To begin, a legal theory of rape: "ie cuide nulle fille ne estre viollee que de greant cueur" (Balzac, uvres diverses 1: 394). This disturbing opinion is expressed by the judge in Balzac's conte drolatique "Comment la belle fille de Portillon quinaulda son iuge." But the idea is not merely ...
The space of time: Delaroche's depiction of modern historical narrative.
Sep 22, 2007; ... In 1857 when Theophile Gautier considered the career of the painter Hippolyte (known as Paul) Delaroche he recognized that the literary aspects of Delaroche's art had been an important factor in his success: "Chez un peuple litteraire avant tout, il n'a pas peint, il a ecrit ses ...
The history of the history of the salon.
Sep 22, 2007; ... This article explores the development of an historical understanding of the French salon as an important cultural inheritance in the nineteenth century. During the July Monarchy and the Second Empire the salon, while remaining a lieu social, became a lieu de memoire for writers and ...
Apostasy Apostasized: the effects of censorship and self-censorship on Baudelaire's "Le Reniement de saint Pierre".(Charles Baudelaire)
Sep 22, 2007; ... All writing that ... falls under the censor's eye may become tainted .... All writers under censorship are at least potentially touched by paranoia, not just those who have their work suppressed. --J. M. Coetzee (1) The shears of Anastasia touched Les Fleurs du Mal ...
"Le Pere Judas," ou la (re)construction laborieuse d'un conte peu convaincant de Guy de Maupassant.
Sep 22, 2007; ... "Le Pere Judas" a ete publie par Guy de Maupassant dans Le Gaulois du 28 fevrier 1883, (1) sous le pseudonyme de Maufrigneuse, d'apres le projet Gutenberg, et recueilli, pour la premiere fois, apres la mort de l'ecrivain, dans l'edition Conard, a la suite de "Toine" (2) comme l'indique L ....
Justice, Zola's global utopian gospel.
Sep 22, 2007; ... In the two years preceding his death in September 1902, Zola had begun to assemble documents and prepare notes for Justice, the novel that was to have been the fourth and final installment of Les Quatre Evangiles.' The following study places this unwritten narrative within the broader ...
Caraion, Marta. Pour fixer la trace. Photographie, litterature et voyage au milieu du XIXe siecle.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Caraion, Marta. Pour fixer la trace. Photographie, litterature et voyage au milieu du xixe siecle. Geneva: Droz (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, vol. 408), 2003. Pp. 391. ISBN 2-600-00839-X. Marta Caraion bas written an insightful study of relationships between ...
Acquisto, Joseph. French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Acquisto, Joseph. French Symbolist Poetry and the Idea of Music. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 202. ISBN O-7546-5641-1. Nowadays, no reader approaching this book through its title will be naive enough to expect one single "idea of music" to emerge by its end, far less one that ...
Boyer, Sophie. La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Boyer, Sophie. La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour. Paris: L'Harmattan (Allemagne d'hier et d'aujourd'hui), 2004. Pp. XI + 322. ISBN 2-7475-7822-4. Halfway through his Memoirs (1854) Heinrich Heine--a German Jew by birth, a Parisian ...
Mesch, Rachel. The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Mesch, Rachel. The Hysteric's Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt vp, 2006. Pp. 268. ISBN 0-8265-1531-2. The topic of hysteria bas been for years a popular one among literary critics, and numerous books and articles have been published ...
Didier, Beatrice and Emanuelle Tabet, eds. Chateaubriand avant le Genie du Christianisme: Actes du Colloque ENS Ulm.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Didier, Beatrice and Emanuelle Tabet, eds. Chateaubriand avant le Genie du Christianisme: Actes du Colloque ENS Ulm. Paris: Honore Champion, 2006. Pp. 161. ISBN 2-7453-1284-7. This series of papers focuses on the early career of Chateaubriand the beginning of which is well ...
Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds. Trans. Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2005. Pp. 308. ISBN 0-8195-6797-3. Balzac's Le Centenaire: ou, les deux Beringhelds, ...
Gautier, Theophile. Critique theatrale. Tome I (1835-1838).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Gautier, Theophile. Critique theatrale. Tome I (1835-1838). Texte etabli, presente et annote par Patrick Berthier avec la collaboration de Francois Brunet. Paris: Champion, 2007. Pp. 921. ISBN 978-2-7453-1589-2. Efforts to make Theophile Gautier's entire opus accessible to the ...
Sand, George. The Private Secretary.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Sand, George. The Private Secretary. Translated by Lucy M. Schwartz, with editorial assistance by Paul l. Schwartz. Preface by Lucy M. Schwartz. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 173. ISBN 0820474843. Lucy M. Schwartz, auteur de l'edition francaise du Secretaire intime (1991) aux ...
Jennings, Michael W. The Writer of Modern Life. Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Jennings, Michael W. The Writer of Modern Life. Essays on Charles Baudelaite, by Walter Benjamin. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 2006. Pp. 320. ISBN 0-674-02287-4. In The Writer of Modern Life, Michael Jennings presents all of Walter Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire together, ...
Gaultier, Jules de. Le Bovarysme suivi d'une etude de Per Buvik, Le principe bovaryque.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Gaultier, lules de. Le Bovarysme suivi d'une etude de Per Buvik, Le principe bovaryque. Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2006. Pp. 338. ISBN 2-84050-424-3. Enfin une reedition de cet ouvrage, sous-titre "Essai sur le pouvoir d'imaginer" (1902), a distinguer de ...
Lumbroso, Olivier. Zola: La plume et le compas: La construction de l'espace dans "Les Rougon-Macquart" d'Emile Zola.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Lumbroso, Olivier. Zola: La plume et le compas: La construction de l'espace dans "Les Rougon-Macquart" d'Emile Zola. Paris." Honore Champion, 2004. Pp. 318. ISBN 2-7453-0952-8. Olivier Lumbroso's meticulous study of the creation of the Rougon-Macquart, introduced by Philippe ...
Gomart, Helene. Les Operations financieres dans le roman realiste: Lectures de Balzac et de Zola.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Gomart, Helene. Les Operations financieres dans le roman realiste: Lectures de Balzac et de Zola. Romantisme et Modernites 77. Paris: Champion, 2004. Pp. 380. ISBN 2-7453-0947-1. Caveat emptor! The title of this book seems to suggest a broader corpus than Helene Gomart in fact ...
Rannou, Pascal. De Corbiere a Tristan: "Les Amours jaunes," une quete de l'identite.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Rannou, Pascal. De Corbiere a Tristan: "Les Amours jaunes," une quete de l'identite. Paris: Champion, 2006. Pp. 560. ISBN 2745314823. Pascal Rannou's contention that Corbiere's work must be understood as the result of cultural hybridity was already familiar to specialists from ...
Laforgue, Jules. Papiers retrouves.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Laforgue, Jules. Papiers retrouves. Edition preparee et annotee par Jean-Louis Debauve, Mireille Dottin-Orsini, Jacques-Andre Dupre et Jean-Jacques Lefrere. Tusson (Charente): Du Lerot, 2005. Pp. 402 + 24 plates & 26 figures. ISBN This interesting volume consists of three very ...
Lorrain, Jean. Correspondances.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Lorrain, Jean. Correspondances, edition etablie, presentee et annotee par Jean de Palacio. Paris: Honore Champion, 2006. Pp. 241. ISBN 2-7453-1388-6. Sur l'arriere-fond des differentes correspondances de Jean Lorrain, Jean de Palacio adopte une methode nouvelle; livrer les cent ...