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”
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
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