Nineteenth-Century French Studies back issues from March 2009:
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 ...
(Un)veiling the self and the story: dandyism, desire, and narrative duplicity in Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly was a notorious dandy whose eccentric dress and unusual personality stood out in the literary salons of nineteenth-century Paris. His tightly laced corset and overdimensional Spanish hat as well as his theatrical air and flowery language were part of an elaborate ...
The symptomatic doctor.(Realist narratives )(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Where does the body belong in the modern project to make art into a means of revealing further dimensions of the "real"? This is a question that painting, sculpture and literature repeatedly pose for the nineteenth-century viewer and reader. Modern art has scarcely known what to do with ...
Esthetisation, immaculation, transfiguration dans La Confession de Claude de Zola.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Il m'est difficile de repondre a la trop bonne opinion que vous avez de mon livre. Il est faible en certaines parties, et il contient encore bien des enfantillages. L'elan manque par instants, l'observateur s'evanouit, et le poete reparaOt, un poete qui a trop bu de lait, et mange trop de ...
Kelly, Barbara, and Kerry Murphy, eds.: Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies. Essays in Honour of Francois Lesure.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Kelly, Barbara, and Kerry Murphy, eds. Berlioz and Debussy: Sources, Contexts and Legacies. Essays in Honour of Francois Lesure. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 209. ISBN 978-0-7546-5392-9 Francois Lesure (1923-2001) spent most of his career as a librarian at the Bibliotheque ...
Lescart, Alain, ed.: Splendeurs et miseres de la grisette: Evolution d'une figure emblematique.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lescart, Alain, ed. Splendeurs et miseres de la grisette: Evolution d'une figure emblematique. Paris: Honore Champion, 2008. Pp. 329. ISBN 978-2-7453-1732-2 A l'entame d'un livre dedie a ce qui semble etre une etude socioculturelle de la grisette et qui nous invite a penetrer ...
Rose, Margaret A., ed.: Flaneurs & Idlers.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Rose, Margaret A., ed. Flaneurs & Idlers. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2007. Pp. 355. ISBN 978-3-8952-8640-7 As a figure defined by his mobility, the flaneur has recently round himself traveling in fast company. Once more or less confined to literary circles, the flaneur has ...
Lyons, Martyn. Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lyons, Martyn. Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. 245. ISBN 978-0-8020-9357-8 This volume contains four photographs of oddly poor quality, apparently reproduced from website illustrations which ...
Lyu, Claire Chi-ah. A Sun within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lyu, Claire Chi-ah. A Sun within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Pp. xii+222. ISBN 0-8229-4277-1 Claire Chi-ah Lyu's gracefully written defense of poetry lives up to the blurbs on the back of the dust jacket, so that it ...
Silverman, Willa. The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Silverman, Willa. The New Bibliopolis: Freneh Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Pp. xvii + 312. ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3 In recent years there has been an increasing amount of scholarship on the history of the book in ...
Guyaux, Andre. Baudelaire: Un Demi-Siecle de lectures des Fleurs du mal (1855-1905).(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Guyaux, Andre. Baudelaire: Un Demi-Siecle de lectures des Fleurs du mal (1855-1905). Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Memoire de la critique), 2007. Pp 1,143. ISBN 2-8405-0496-0 In the preface to his voluminous collection Baudelaire: Un Demi-Siecle de lectures des ...
Lloyd, Rosemary, ed.: The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Lloyd, Rosemary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 234 pp. ISBN 0-5218-3094-x. This volume's stated goal is to illuminate, for both lay readers and specialists, the great variety of Baudelaire's work, and in her ...
Guyot, Alain, and Roland Le Huenen. L'Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem de Chateaubriand: L'invention du voyage romantique.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Guyot, Alain, and Roland Le Huenen. L'Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem de Chateaubriand: L'invention du voyage romantique. Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne, 2006. Pp. 311. ISBN: 978-2-84050-472-6 In L'Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem de Chateaubriand: L'invention du ...
Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline. Les Veillees des Antilles.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline. Les Veillees des Antilles. Ed. Aimee Boutin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2006. Pp. 226 + xxxviii. ISBN 2-2960-1576-x Critical work on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore has been nourished by a growing number of re-editions of her poems and prose works, for which ...
Gautier, Theophile. OEuvres completes: Romans, contes et nouvelles Tome 1: Mademoiselle de Maupin.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Gautier, Theophile. OEuvres completes: Romans, contes et nouvelles Tome 1: Mademoiselle de Maupin. Texte etabli, presente et annote par Anne Geisler-Szmulewicz. Paris: Champion, 2004. Pp. 436. ISBN 2-7453-0966-8 If cross-dressing is about the incongruity of appearances, ...
Stein, Marieke. Victor Hugo, orateur politique: 1846-1880.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Stein, Marieke. Victor Hugo, orateur politique: 1846-1880. Paris: Honore Champion, 2007. Pp. 771. ISBN 978-OE-74531448 Victor Hugo's work as an orator has not received much critical attention, despite the fact that he participated actively in politics and delivered numerous ...
Loti, Pierre. Journal 1879-1886.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Loti, Pierre. Journal 1879-1886. Eds. Alain Quella-Villeger and Bruno Vercier. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2008. Pp. 812. ISBN 978-2-84654-172-5 Coming out two years after the appearance of Volume I, which covered the decade preceding the appearance of Loti's first novel, ...
Turberfield, Peter James. Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Turberfield, Peter James. Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. Pp. 264. ISBN 978-90-420-2363-5 Peter Turberfield sets forth his intent in his opening lines: "The key focus of this book will be an analysis of patterns of unconscious desire ...
Grandadam, Emmanuele. Contes et nouvelles de Maupassant: Pour une poetique du recueil.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Grandadam, Emmanuele. Contes et nouvelles de Maupassant: Pour une poetique du recueil. Publications des Universites de Rouen et du Havre, 2007. Pp. 473. ISBN 978-2-87775-434-7 Most 21st-century readers of Maupassant will almost certainly have first encountered the author through ...
Pichois, Claude, and Michel Brix. Dictionnaire Nerval.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Pichois, Claude, and Michel Brix. Dictionnaire Nerval. Avec la collaboration de Jacques Bony et Hisashi Mizuno. Tusson (Charente): Du Lerot, 2006. Pp. 483. ISBN 2-00-000531-4 Que les Nervaliens du monde se rejouissent: a l'instar du Dictionnaire Baudelaire, oeuvre de Claude ...
Wieser, Dagmar. Nerval: Une Poetique du deuil a l'age romantique.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Wieser, Dagmar. Nerval: Une Poetique du deuil a l'age romantique. Geneve: Droz, 2004. Pp. 408. ISBN 2-600-00875-6 Aux Etats-Unis, Nerval occupe une place bien mince dans les enseignements et les colloques, a la difference de l'Europe francophone ou il n'a cesse d'inspirer des ...
Rimbaud, Arthur. OEuvres completes II: OEuvres diverses et lettres 1864/1865-1870.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Rimbaud, Arthur. OEuvres completes II: OEuvres diverses et lettres 1864/1865-1870. Edition critique dirigee par Steve Murphy, avec la collaboration pour ce volume de Danielle Bandelier, Bruno Claisse, Denis Hue et George Hugo Tucker. Textes de litterature moderne et contemporaine 102 ....
Roux, Marius. The Substance and the Shadow.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Roux, Marius. The Substance and the Shadow. Ed. Paul Smith. Trans. Dick Collins and Fiona Cox. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. If Marius Roux is remembered today, it is because he was part of a group of friends, writers and artists who grew up ...
Errata.(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2009 ... In NCFS 37.1--2 (Fall-Winter 2008--2009) the wrong abstract was attributed to the article by Marc Smeets, "Osmaz6mes (Huysmans)." Professor Smeets's abstract should read: It is generally known that in J.-K. Huysmans, the fascination with concentrates appears in two ...