Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 52, numbers 1 & 2 / Fall–Winter 2023–24
In addition to an Invited Essay by Michael Lucey on trajectories of readability, the issue includes a range of articles and reviews that highlight the breadth of the discipline: from social media, Sarah Bernhardt, and Human/Animal relationality to the city of Paris (and the parasite, and/or under siege), boxing, des Esseintes’s turtle, the Muslim Mediterranean, Victor Hugo, and the alphabet. As such, it continues the journal’s longstanding tradition of covering the full range of studies of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields.
Contents
INVITED ESSAY
Michael Lucey
Conceptualizing Trajectories of Readability
ARTICLES
Madison Mainwaring
Ballet and Celebrity at the Paris Opera, or the Dreams of the Rat
Hammam Aldouri
The Initial Expression is the Final Impression: The First Sentence of Baudelaire’s “Le Peintre de la vie moderne”
Robert Ziegler
Homeless Narrative in Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas
REVIEWS
MEDIA MATTERS
Albert, Nicole G., and Patrick Chardon, editors. Akademos, la première revue homosexuelle française, 1909: mode d’emploi
Robert O. Steele
Brehm, Brett. Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature
Renée Altergott
Foss, Colin. The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870–1871
Sima Godfrey
Planté, Christine, and Marie-Ève Thérenty, editors. Féminin / Masculin dans la presse du XIXe siècle
Helen Craske
Smith, Macs. Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City
Aimée Boutin
FORM AND FUNCTION
Färnlöf, Hans. La Motivation littéraire: du formalisme russe au constructivisme
Christina A. Oikonomopoulou
Lübecker, Nikolaj. Twenty-First Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé
Eloïse Sureau
Pearson, Roger. The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver
Helen Abbott
SPORTS AND LEISURE
Cropper, Corry, and Seth Whidden, editors. Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France
Elizabeth Emery
Guégan, Stéphane. Baudelaire: l’art contre l’ennui
Yves Laberge
Ville, Sylvain. Le Théâtre de la boxe: naissance d’un spectacle sportif (Paris-Londres, 1880–1930)
Corry Cropper
IMPERIAL PASSAGES
Cooper, Barbara, éditrice. Crimes et châtiments dans l’aire atlantique (1827–1841): une anthologie
Maria Beliaeva Solomon
Hartley, Julia, Wanrug Suwanwattana, and Jennifer Yee, editors. French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and Exoticism
Richard Riddick
Murray-Miller, Gavin. Empire Unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880–1918
Margaret Anderson
Todd, David. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Maureen DeNino
Rattazzi, Marie, née Bonaparte-Wyse, edited by Barbara T. Cooper. L’Aventurière des colonies: drame en cinq actes suivi de documents inédits
Courtney Sullivan
NEW DIRECTIONS
Bouamer, Siham, and Loïc Bourdeau, editors. Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies: New Approaches to Teaching
Éric Essono Tsimi
Boulard, Stéphanie, and Pierre Georgel. Hugographies: rêveries de Victor Hugo sur les lettres de l’alphabet
Briana Lewis
Conroy, Melanie. Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust
Bianca Romaniuc-Boularand
VISUAL ARTS
Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn. Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Harmon Siegel
Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo. Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century
Jennifer Yee
Thomson, Richard. The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity
Jonathan P. Ribner
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