Current Table of Contents

Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 53, numbers 3–4, spring–summer 2025 (scroll down for book reviews)

ARTICLES

Charlotte Berkery
“If the nightcap fits . . .”: Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions

Pauline de Tholozany
On the Fragility of Sanity: The Charenton Asylum in and out of Le Livre des cent-et-un

SPECIAL SECTION: “Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies”
Edited by Cary Hollinshead-Strick and Anne O’Neil-Henry

Cary Hollinshead-Strick and Anne O’Neil-Henry
Introduction

Mary Grace Albanese
Technologies of Spirit: Haitian Energy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century

Arthur Houplain
Étoiles, volcans et feux follets: le gaz d’éclairage, miroir des ambivalences du Progrès

John Cropper
The Imperial Energy Economy: Energy, Industrialization, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Senegal

Édouard Bourdelle
Dominer la Nature, reproduire la Nature: enjeux de l’énergie à Paris

Erin E. Edgington
“Emparons-nous du sol!”: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests

Pauline Noblecourt
Fantastical Steam Machines: Fuel and Energy in Nineteenth-Century Parisian revues de fin d’année

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) 

FAMOUS FIGURES

Holmes, Diana, and Martine Reid. Introduction à l’œuvre de Daniel Lesueur: “Conscience féminine élève la voix!”
Haleigh Heaps Burgon

Boutin, Aimée, Adrianna M. Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt, editors. Redécouvrir Louisa Siefert (1845–1877): richesse d’une œuvre de femme à l’ère de la modernité
Anne Marcoline

Horowitz, Sarah. The Red Widow
Kathryne Adair Corbin

Gamble, Cynthia. Marie Nordlinger, la muse anglaise de Marcel Proust
Elizabeth Emery

Islert, Camille. Renée Vivien: une poétique sous influence?
Melanie Hawthorne

AUSPICIOUS ORIGINS

Chrastil, Rachel. Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
Thibault Montbazet

Godfrey, Sima. The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot
Guillaume Lancereau

Blaszkiewicz, Jacek. Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris
Mark Seto

READINGS AND REPRESENTATIONS

Daouda, Marie Kawthar. L’Anti-Salomé: représentations de la féminité bienveillante au temps de la décadence (1850–1910)
Céline Brossillon

Even, Kevin. La Question environnementale chez Jules Verne: écrire, prédire, prévenir la catastrophe écologique
Paule Carbonnel

Foliard, Daniel. The Violence of Colonial Photography
Johann Le Guelte

Brix, Michel. Du classicisme au réalisme: une histoire de la littérature française (XVIIe–XXIe siècles)
Christina Oikonomopoulou

Ashley, Katherine. Robert Louis Stevenson and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Literary Relations at the Fin de Siècle
Eloïse Sureau

CULTURE AND POLITICS

Krueger, Cheryl. Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
Janet Beizer

Bauer, Nicole. Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
Rebecca Sugden

Zdatny, Steven. A History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust
Jacob Meister

Kalman, Samuel. Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1954
Kathleen Keller

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Lumbroso, Olivier. Dans l’atelier d’Émile Zola
Nicholas White

McGuinness, Max. Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust
Pascal Ifri

Thivend, Marianne. Ces femmes qui comptent: le genre de l’enseignement commercial en France au XIXe siècle
Bénédicte Monicat

Cooke, Roderick. The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics
Richard Riddick