Current Table of Contents

Volume 52 numbers 1 & 2 / Fall–Winter 2023–24 (scroll down for book reviews)

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

Leah Powers
Between Science and Sorcery: Reimagining Human and Animal Relationality in George Sand’s La Petite Fadette

Hammam Aldouri
The Initial Expression is the Final Impression: The First Sentence of Baudelaire’s “Le Peintre de la vie moderne”

Hannah Frydman
“Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique”: Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media’s Erotic Pre-History in the Petite Correspondance

Susanna Lee
“Sans doute habituée à une existence sédentaire”: des Esseintes’s Turtle and the Residue of Naturalism

Corina Sandu
Le discours médiatique transatlantique avant 1900: l’exemple de la première tournée de Sarah Bernhardt en Amérique

Robert Ziegler
Homeless Narrative in Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Phocas


REVIEWS

N.B. In agreeing to publish a review with Nineteenth-Century French Studies, authors retain the copyright to their review and give Nineteenth-Century French Studies the right to first publication of that review. (effective September 2014) 


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’Adventurière 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