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Conceptualizing Trajectories of Readability Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Michael Lucey
Abstract: In an essay on "Phenomenological Aesthetics," the philosopher Roman Ingarden asserted that "works of art have the right to expect to be properly apprehended by observers who are in communion with them and to have their special value justly treated" (269). What does it mean to "properly apprehend" a novel? How do we know how to read something "justly"? What would it mean to claim that something
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Ballet and Celebrity at the Paris Opera, or the Dreams of the Rat Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Madison Mainwaring
Abstract: The panoramic literature of the July Monarchy (1830–48) depicts the rat or ballet girl to be destined for prostitution, her dream of becoming a star a mere pretext used to exploit her. In my analysis of journalists writing about the young female dancer, I interrogate the neutrality of such sources, contextualizing the dance profession in relation to other employment options available to female
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Between Science and Sorcery: Reimagining Human and Animal Relationality in George Sand's La Petite Fadette Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Leah Powers
Abstract: In La Petite Fadette, one of George Sand's romans champêtres, the relationship that Fadette shares with the natural world is rooted in ancestral, embodied knowledge as well as close attention and observation. These relationships demonstrate connection and reciprocity which defies the common ideology of the time that positioned humans as superior to the nonhuman world. The present project
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The Initial Expression is the Final Impression: The First Sentence of Baudelaire's "Le Peintre de la vie moderne" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hammam Aldouri
Abstract: In his "Études sur Poe," Charles Baudelaire makes the following provocative remark: "Si la première phrase n'est pas écrite en vue de préparer cette impression finale, l'œuvre est manquée dès le début." This essay seeks to disinter the dialectical contradictory logic at the core of this sentence—its identification of first and final in the work of art—by submitting the injunction contained
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"Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique": Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media's Erotic Pre-History in the Petite Correspondance Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hannah Frydman
Abstract: In 1875, Parisian daily Le Figaro introduced a personal advertising column called the petite correspondance, which allowed people to write to each other using the newspaper as mediator, avoiding home addresses and the watchful parents or spouses who lived at them. The often-amorous exchanges this facilitated, some fictional (commissioned by the newspaper to entice readers), some real, drew
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"Sans doute habituée à une existence sédentaire": Des Esseintes's Turtle and the Residue of Naturalism Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Susanna Lee
Abstract: This article analyzes the decorated turtle in Huysmans's 1884 À rebours. It argues that des Esseintes's unfortunate animal, which perishes under its heavy ornamentation, plays out the apprehensions of its owner and embodies the psychological and physical perils that await him. Turtles—fundamental to nineteenth-century discoveries in developmental biology as well as to Darwin's theories of
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Le discours médiatique transatlantique avant 1900: L'exemple de la première tournée de Sarah Bernhardt en Amérique Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Corina Sandu
Abstract: Sarah Bernhardt's first American tour (1880–81) is one of the most publicized cultural events in France and the United States. The controversial actress's performances are commented at length by the Parisian press and the American newspapers, as well as the account of the actress Marie Colombier, fragments of which appear in the press. In my study of this vast corpus of publications from
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Homeless Narrative in Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Robert Ziegler
Abstract: Pedigreed by hyperesthesia, purified by an anorexia of the real, the Decadents strove to perfect an art positioned on the threshold of death where vitality's flame shone brightest before guttering and going out. Heralded by Denis Neveu as "le roman bible de la Dėcadence," Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas (1901) shows how the repetition compulsion takes life with its disharmony and suffering
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Arboreal Values: Reconsidering the "plantes si sensibles, si merveilleuses, si intelligentes" of Rauch's Harmonie hydro-végétale et météorologique Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Giulia Pacini
Abstract: This essay examines shifting understandings of the vegetal in the first edition of Rauch’s Harmonie hydro-végétale et météorologique (1802). In this two-volume treatise which denounces the consequences of deforestation and calls for an intensive state-sponsored sylvicultural program, Rauch arg ued that twenty million more acres of trees were needed to redress the French climate, to arrest
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Bureaucratic Modernity: Huysmans as "rond-de-cuir" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Michaela Telfer
Abstract: By bringing together Joris-Karl Huysmans’s novella À vau-l’eau, his short story “La Retraite de Monsieur Bougran” (1888), and his personal writing, I argue that bureaucratic labor produces an affective atmosphere of ennui and disgust that defines both Huysmans’s œuvre and how he and his contemporaries understand and represent modernity. As Huysmans’s work suggests, the repetition and perceived
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Conflits sociaux, moraux et économiques dans Mathilde de Félix Pyat et Eugène Sue Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Barbara T. Cooper
Abstract: This article studies Félix Pyat’s and Eugène Sue’s 1842 drama, Mathilde, in order to show how money serves as a lever of power used to challenge and contest traditional moral values, the integrity of the family, and the foundations of social organization. Lugarto, the drama’s wealthy and unscrupulous villain, is both a racial outsider and a social interloper who takes advantage of the secrets
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"Le bon ange de son maître": mélodrame animalier et théâtre humanitaire Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Ignacio Ramos-Gay
Abstract: This article examines nineteenth-century melodramas that featured live animals, the abuse of which awakened in the audience feelings of commiseration and humaneness. By analyzing the work of playwrights in the line of Guilbert de Pixerécourt, Eugène Scribe, Edmond Rochefort, Ferdinand Langlé, Philippe François Pinel Dumanoir, Adolphe D’Enner y, Ferdinand La loue, Fabrice Labrousse, Théodore
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Contestation sociale et spatiale dans Jenny l'ouvrière et Claudie Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Janice Best
Abstract: In 1850 and 1851, two plays staged at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre featured working class heroines: Jenny l’ouvrière, drame en cinq actes by Jules Barbier and Adrien Decourcelles, and Claudie, drame en trois actes by George Sand. Both plays reflect major challenges facing society in the 1850s following the revolution of 1848 and the bloody days of June: poverty, lack of work, the condition
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"Une imprimerie, c'est comme un théâtre": Victor Roger's Thomas l'imprimeur (1843) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Cary Hollinshead-Strick
Abstract: Thomas l’imprimeur, an 1843 drame mêlé de chansons by Victor Roger, took advantage of vaudeville conventions, which relied on language with multiple meanings and physical comedy, to comment on the Tarif of 1843, an agreement that Parisian printers and print-shop owners had made about establishing uniform rates for typesetting and composition. By reading Thomas with the Mémoires of Joseph
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Tentations spectaculaires: quelques représentations théâtrales de l'alcoolisme ouvrier, de la monarchie de Juillet à la Troisième République Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Marjolaine Forest
Abstract: The present article considers stage representations of alcohol issues in the French working class from the July Monarchy to the Third Republic, through four plays: a vaudeville (Plus de jeudi, by Victor Ducange and Anicet Bourgeois, 1838), two examples of “humanitarian theater”—Marie-Jeanne, ou la Femme du peuple (1845), by Adolphe Dennery and Julien de Mallian, and Le Chiffonnier de Paris
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Le drame social naturaliste: tranches de vies ouvrières (1870–1900) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Marie-Astrid Charlier
Abstract: Based on a corpus of nine plays performed between 1870 and 1900, this article sets out to define the naturalist social drama, to determine its generic criteria, and to explore its representations of the working-class milieu, which involve an engagement with political discourse as well as a degree of theatrical innovation. While social struggle and working-class life correspond to the project
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Le cours de l'action sociale: Jean Charles-Brun et le théâtre Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Sarah Al-Matary
Abstract: Jean Charles-Brun (1870–1946), best known as a regionalist activist, became interested in the theater early on: it was certainly from there that he consolidated his discourse on the relationship between art and society. Years before the courses on the social novel in nineteenth-century France that he gave at the Collège libre des sciences sociales, Charles-Brun had delivered several lectures
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Index to Volume 51 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-18
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nineteenth-Century French StudiesIndex to Volume 51 articles Sarah Al-Matary Le cours de l’action sociale: Jean Charles-Brun et le théâtre Olivier Bara Introduction: Théâtre social, drame humanitaire Janice Best Contestation sociale et spatiale dans Jenny l’ouvrière et Claudie Marie-Astrid Charlier Le drame social naturaliste: tranches
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Textual "Piqûres": Vaccination in the Hands of Nineteenth-Century French Writers Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Margot Szarke
Abstract: This essay explores nineteenth-century French texts that depict Jenner's vaccine, highlighting the ways in which literature and print culture played a significant role in vaccination's diffusion by conveying, challenging, and even mocking the impact of the new preventative treatment and its scientific rationale. By examining accounts of the vaccine found in medical treatises, popular journalism
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Fragmentation or Fusion: The Theme of Restoration in Nodier's Masterwork, La Fée aux miettes Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Laurence M. Porter
Abstract: Charles Nodier's longest fairytale, La Fée aux miettes, seems an "Anatomy" in Northrop Frye's sense of the word—a medley of literary genres typical of "the self-conscious tradition" familiar to Nodier from Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Diderot's Neveu de Rameau, winding through a labyrinth and ending without a decisive ending. But Nodier repeatedly foreshadows his belief that the sixth "day"
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"Dévoiler un amour secret": Gestures of Adulterous Desire in Byron's Don Juan Canto I and Balzac's La Femme de trente ans Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Emily Paterson-Morgan
Abstract: This article proposes that in his 1842 novel La Femme de trente ans, Honoré de Balzac draws on Lord Byron's depiction of self-deceptive character pathology in Don Juan Canto I, using the British poet's Spanish seduction scene as a template for his own portrayal of the opening moves of an adulterous liaison. Byron's Donna Julia and Balzac's Julie d'Aiglemont display the same disconnection
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Zigzags, revirements et circonvolutions: les voyages excentriques et exotiques de Théophile Gautier Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Ji Eun Hong
Abstract: Théophile Gautier traveled a lot, and far. His travels, especially in the East, have often been studied from the angle of exoticism, travelogue or even art. But it is the motivation and the terms of the itinerary that will be the subject of this article. Indeed, such a craze for travel is surprising on the part of a writer who, originally, liked to proclaim the charms of motionless travel
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Baudelaire as a Girl: Writing Through Problematic Legacies in Lisa Robertson's The Baudelaire Fractal Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 David Evans
Abstract: At a time when students and academics are grappling with the cultural legacies of misogyny, Lisa Robertson's novel The Baudelaire Fractal (2020) offers a challenging, creative mode of engagement with the male canon. It describes the journey into writing of Hazel Brown, a young woman whose painful encounter with Baudelaire's misogyny inspires not a rejection but an appropriation: one day she
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Rimbaud, un textualisme en acte Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Mendel Péladeau-Houle
Abstract: Understood in the sense of the disappearance of the author and the crisis of representation, textualism is a theory of which Mallarmé is considered to be the initiator. Speaking of a poetic textualism or "en acte" (in action), the article studies this idea in Arthur Rimbaud's Les Illuminations. Rather than considering the criticism of the author as a derivative of the deconstruction of the
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Zola nataliste ou féministe? Pouvoir féminin et sexualités subversives dans Fécondité Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Michael Rosenfeld
Abstract: Scholars have described the role of women in Zola's Fécondité (1899) as limited primarily to motherhood, citing Marianne's twelve births as the maternal model idealized by the novelist. However, the dossiers préparatoires reveal a different story. Zola describes in detail his many female characters whose intimate desires express their quest for sexual liberty and for control over their own
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The Decadent Werewolf: Animal Ethics in the Autobiographical Rachilde Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Christopher Robison
Abstract: In her numerous romans à clef like La Marquise de Sade and Les Rageac, as well as her more explicitly autobiographical texts like Dans le puits and Face à la peur, Rachilde tells a series of anecdotes that underscore her deep investment in animal ethics. Throughout her autobiographical œuvre, Rachilde constructs her alter ego of the writerly loup-garou, whose zealous animal activism is determined
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J.-K. Huysmans with Wilhelm Wundt: Ennui, or a Mind-Body Problem Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-17 John D'amico
Abstract: Taking a cognitive approach to Huysmans's 1887 novel En rade, this article studies the writer's aesthetic transmutation of the theories of Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920)—a figure widely known as one of the founders of modern psychology. The protagonist, Jacques Marles, invokes Wundt's claim that an extended foot during sleep may prompt the experience of falling in a dream. This explanation has
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Samori Touré and the Portable God: Imagining the Phonographic Conquest of West Africa Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Renée Altergott
Abstract: During the “Scramble for Africa,” proponents of imperialism imagined the new phonograph as a potential tool of colonization that could use disembodied, recorded voices to enchant indigenous listeners and manipulate them into submission, what I call “phonographic imperialism.” This article studies the iconography of a major turning point in French colonial history—the capture and sentencing
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"L'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses": Mélodie and Memory in the Année terrible Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Emily Kilpatrick
Abstract: The legacy of the Année terrible permeated the creative practice of the Belle Époque, and the shaping of a collective cultural memory exercised artists across all disciplines. When composers and their peers reflected on the events of 1870–71, the creation and performance of art song (mélodie) often assumed a key narrative and symbolic function. This study investigates the ways by which composers
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Introduction: La race du côté littéraire Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Daniel Desormeaux
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: La race du côté littéraire Daniel Desormeaux L’indicible surtout est une invitation à dire et redire sans cesse, un appel toujours renouvelé à la communication. D’un mot: tout est à dire et surtout ce qui a déjà été dit! Nous craignons qu’à force de parler de l’amour et de la mort les métaphysiciens et les poètes lyriques
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Unfinished Business: Anti-Semitism, Racial Capitalism, and the Long Age of Empire Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Dorian Bell
Abstract: The historical relationship between anti-Semitism and Orientalism is usually understood according to their overlapping representations of Jews and Muslims. In this essay, I begin by asking whether nineteenth-century French anti-Semitism and Orientalism might also be considered from the standpoint of a functional continuity. Reading an 1888 trio of anti-Semitic, imperialist novels by Louis
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Race et ressort comique: l'invention théâtrale de "Bamboula" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Sylvie Chalaye
Abstract: In the second half of the nineteenth century, dramatic literature racializes the comic argument of the “nègre.” Race becomes a comic device of vaudeville, as dramatic as it is musical, notably with Labiche, through the figure of the man who will soon be called “Bamboula” and who summons burlesque situations, eccentric settings, carnival disguises, humorous couplets, explosive dances and clownish
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Depicting Racial Conflict in Charles Garand's Georges le mulâtre (1878) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Barbara T. Cooper
Abstract: This article examines the way Charles Garand’s Georges le mulâtre (1878), a play based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel Georges (1843), forces theatergoers and readers to look at race and racial prejudice. Each act shows the division and divisiveness that racial prejudice imposes on the drama’s characters and suggests that it is only by overcoming the long-held biases built into the colonial setting
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La race des poètes Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Laurent Dubreuil
Abstract: With a focus on a “French” corpus ranging from the 1850s to the 1900s, this essay explores different literary theorizations of race through poetry. From Vigny to Lautréamont and Vivien, the ancient syntagm “race of the poets” is often revived to build the mythology of what Verlaine would call the poète maudit. There, such a poetic “race” may remain structurally unrelated to the contemporary
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L'air du temps . . . Apollinaire et la race Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jérémy Guedj
Abstract: Apollinaire’s work is heavily influenced by cosmopolitanism, which does not preclude finding elements in it that are related to ongoing thoughts about race that saturated the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article proposes to explore this tendency, without overestimating it, in two directions. First, it will deal with Apollinaire’s thinking about race through explicit
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La racialisation des identités à travers les publications à caractère pédagogique au sein de l'Empire colonial français Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Carole Reynaud-Paligot
Abstract: The notion of human race took on considerable importance in the nineteenth century, supported by an active and recognized scientific community. The classificatory approach, which sought to order the world, took place in a context of violent economic and political dominations—slavery, followed by colonization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and led to a vast enterprise of hierarchization
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The Whore, the Text, and the Critics: Flaubert's Kuchiuk Hanem as Postcolonial Fetish Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jennifer Yee
Abstract: One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account of his meeting with the almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, in Egypt in 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, Kuchiuk has had an extraordinary afterlife in which she is seen as standing for the Orient as a whole, an instance of synecdoche. We, as postcolonial theorists, tend
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Index to vol. 50, nos. 1–4 Fall 2021–Summer 2022 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Index to vol. 50, nos. 1–4 Fall 2021–Summer 2022 articles Renée Altergott Samori Touré and the Portable God: Imagining the Phonographic Conquest of West Africa Victoria Baena Romanesque Commitments: Amélie Bosquet Between Popular Aesthetics and Novel(la) Theory Dorian Bell Unfinished Business: Anti-Semitism
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La race des poètes Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Laurent Dubreuil
Abstract: With a focus on a “French” corpus ranging from the 1850s to the 1900s, this essay explores different literary theorizations of race through poetry. From Vigny to Lautréamont and Vivien, the ancient syntagm “race of the poets” is often revived to build the mythology of what Verlaine would call the poète maudit. There, such a poetic “race” may remain structurally unrelated to the contemporary
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Index to vol. 50, nos. 1–4 Fall 2021–Summer 2022 Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Index to vol. 50, nos. 1–4 Fall 2021–Summer 2022 articles Renée Altergott Samori Touré and the Portable God: Imagining the Phonographic Conquest of West Africa Victoria Baena Romanesque Commitments: Amélie Bosquet Between Popular Aesthetics and Novel(la) Theory Dorian Bell Unfinished Business: Anti-Semitism
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Depicting Racial Conflict in Charles Garand's Georges le mulâtre (1878) Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Barbara T. Cooper
Abstract: This article examines the way Charles Garand’s Georges le mulâtre (1878), a play based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel Georges (1843), forces theatergoers and readers to look at race and racial prejudice. Each act shows the division and divisiveness that racial prejudice imposes on the drama’s characters and suggests that it is only by overcoming the long-held biases built into the colonial setting
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Samori Touré and the Portable God: Imagining the Phonographic Conquest of West Africa Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Renée Altergott
Abstract: During the “Scramble for Africa,” proponents of imperialism imagined the new phonograph as a potential tool of colonization that could use disembodied, recorded voices to enchant indigenous listeners and manipulate them into submission, what I call “phonographic imperialism.” This article studies the iconography of a major turning point in French colonial history—the capture and sentencing
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Unfinished Business: Anti-Semitism, Racial Capitalism, and the Long Age of Empire Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Dorian Bell
Abstract: The historical relationship between anti-Semitism and Orientalism is usually understood according to their overlapping representations of Jews and Muslims. In this essay, I begin by asking whether nineteenth-century French anti-Semitism and Orientalism might also be considered from the standpoint of a functional continuity. Reading an 1888 trio of anti-Semitic, imperialist novels by Louis
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La racialisation des identités à travers les publications à caractère pédagogique au sein de l'Empire colonial français Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Carole Reynaud-Paligot
Abstract: The notion of human race took on considerable importance in the nineteenth century, supported by an active and recognized scientific community. The classificatory approach, which sought to order the world, took place in a context of violent economic and political dominations—slavery, followed by colonization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and led to a vast enterprise of hierarchization
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L'air du temps . . . Apollinaire et la race Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jérémy Guedj
Abstract: Apollinaire’s work is heavily influenced by cosmopolitanism, which does not preclude finding elements in it that are related to ongoing thoughts about race that saturated the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article proposes to explore this tendency, without overestimating it, in two directions. First, it will deal with Apollinaire’s thinking about race through explicit
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Race et ressort comique: l'invention théâtrale de "Bamboula" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Sylvie Chalaye
Abstract: In the second half of the nineteenth century, dramatic literature racializes the comic argument of the “nègre.” Race becomes a comic device of vaudeville, as dramatic as it is musical, notably with Labiche, through the figure of the man who will soon be called “Bamboula” and who summons burlesque situations, eccentric settings, carnival disguises, humorous couplets, explosive dances and clownish
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Introduction: La race du côté littéraire Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Daniel Desormeaux
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction: La race du côté littéraire Daniel Desormeaux L’indicible surtout est une invitation à dire et redire sans cesse, un appel toujours renouvelé à la communication. D’un mot: tout est à dire et surtout ce qui a déjà été dit! Nous craignons qu’à force de parler de l’amour et de la mort les métaphysiciens et les poètes lyriques
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"L'art d'évoquer les minutes heureuses": Mélodie and Memory in the Année terrible Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Emily Kilpatrick
Abstract: The legacy of the Année terrible permeated the creative practice of the Belle Époque, and the shaping of a collective cultural memory exercised artists across all disciplines. When composers and their peers reflected on the events of 1870–71, the creation and performance of art song (mélodie) often assumed a key narrative and symbolic function. This study investigates the ways by which composers
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The Whore, the Text, and the Critics: Flaubert's Kuchiuk Hanem as Postcolonial Fetish Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jennifer Yee
Abstract: One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account of his meeting with the almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, in Egypt in 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, Kuchiuk has had an extraordinary afterlife in which she is seen as standing for the Orient as a whole, an instance of synecdoche. We, as postcolonial theorists, tend
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Incipit: On Poetry and Crisis Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Thomas C. Connolly, Liesl Yamaguchi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Incipit:On Poetry and Crisis Thomas C. Connolly and Liesl Yamaguchi For the next installment of this dialogic series, the journal asked Thomas C. Connolly (Yale University) and Liesl Yamaguchi (Boston College) to reflect on Stéphane Mallarmé's fleeting glimpse of a world without poetry, offering the following citation from "Crise de vers"
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"Jeune fille qui ne pleure pas son oiseau mort": Female Puberty in Stendhal's Lamiel Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Sarah Jones
Abstract: This article is a close reading of the fausse phthisie ruse in Stendhal's Lamiel. It examines the scene in the 1840 version of the manuscript in which Lamiel and Doctor Sansfin fake the symptoms of tuberculosis using the blood of a dead bird. In the first instance, this article analyses the novel's motif of the dead bird by using Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Jeune fille qui pleure son oiseau mort
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Romanesque Commitments: Amélie Bosquet Between Popular Aesthetics and Novel(la) Theory Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Victoria Baena
Abstract: This article reconsiders the relationship between literary aesthetics and political commitment in mid-nineteenth-century France by examining the fiction, folkloric research, and editorial work of provincial writer and intellectual Amélie Bosquet (1815–1904), as well as her correspondence with Gustave Flaubert between 1859 and 1869. I argue that Bosquet's La Normandie romanesque et merveilleuse
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Baudelaire, Vischer, and Self-Transforming Empathy Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Maria C. Scott
Abstract: This article proposes to situate what it will show to be Charles Baudelaire's bi-directional empathy with objects in relation to his move away from Romanticism towards Modernism. It will show that self-transforming receptiveness to the outside world is at least as central to his aesthetic as any self-projecting transformation of that world. The article will consider the poet's presentation
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"C'est le pays de la toilette": Fashion and Space in Flaubert's Le Château des cœurs Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Kasia Stempniak
Abstract: Written in collaboration with Louis Bouilhet and Charles d'Osmoy, Flaubert's play Le Château des cœurs (1863) remains one of his lesser-known literary works. A féerie set in Paris and several magical lands, the play's fifth act takes place in a fashion wonderland called the "île de la toilette." Building on recent scholarly engagement with fashion, I argue that Le Château addresses two new
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The Novel in a Corset: Maupassant, Monsters, and the Short Story Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Sara Phenix
Abstract: This study situates Maupassant's short story "La Mère aux monstres" in the context of nineteenth-century debates about teratology, fashion, and literary form. I trace the evolution of the corset's social meaning over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it evolved from a protective (and even remedial) garment to one that came to be associated with female and fetal deformity
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La concision exemplaire de la nouvelle? Réflexions sur l'art du récit bref chez Maupassant Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Hans Färnlöf
Abstract: This study shows how Maupassant's aesthetic principles lead him, in certain short stories, to expose thematised and implicit content. The absence of didactic discourse and explicit psychological analysis implies that Maupassant is using not only concision but also amplification and repetition to engage the reader and to make him or her aware of the nature and signification of the issues at
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The Commune, "Today" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Robert St. Clair
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Commune, "Today" Robert St. Clair Rouge œillet…Aujourd'hui, va fleurir dans l'ombreDes noires et tristes prisons.Va fleurir près du captif sombreEt dis-lui bien… que par le temps rapideTout appartient à l'avenir… —Louise Michel Tout ça n'empêche pasNicolasQue la Commune n'est pas morte! —Eugène Pottier Let us begin this special issue
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«Une barricade, non un gouvernement» Contrasting Views of Association in the Paris Commune Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-09 William Clare Roberts
Abstract: This essay recovers a lost debate about the political aspirations of the Commune. Recent scholarship has rightly emphasized that the common theme of Communard initiatives was association. However, Communards were torn between competing interpretations of association. According to the predominant sense, indebted to Proudhon, associations were expressions of worker autonomy. They were voluntary
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La Commune de Paris, ou la naissance de la laïcité d'émancipation? Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Christophe Miqueu
Abstract: Politically and socially, a first laïque experience emerged in a concrete and unprecedented way and in a unique territorial and revolutionary space: the Commune de Paris, from 18 March to 28 May 1871, more than ten years before the Ferry and Goblet laws marked the first official legislative institutionalization of education. The Commune's original and radical emergence of laïcité, both academically
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Polar Chaos Nineteenth-Century French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Kristin Ross
Abstract: This essay considers recent instantiations of the commune-form, notably the zad (zone à défendre) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes and the ronds-points of the gilets jaunes, in relation to the set of practices initiated during the Paris Commune of 1871 to which Communard artists and artisans gave the name "luxe communal." The 1871 insurrection and the contemporary communal experiments form bookends