Nineteenth-Century French Studies articles from March 2003

Nineteenth-Century French Studies archives from March 2003

"Alfred de Musset's romantic irony".(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... The year of 1797, though somewhat arbitrary in terms of historical significance in German and French drama, marks German philosopher and theorist Friedrich Schlegel's initial efforts to establish irony as a philosophical as well as literary...

Desert, desire, Dezesperance: space and play in Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Critics haven't neglected La Duchesse de Langeais, but no one has yet fully demonstrated the importance of this novella's principal metaphor: movement through space. (1) Travel towards and away from the other, placing and overcoming obstacles,...

Indiana and Madame Bovary: intertextual echoes.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In his book, Rereading, Matei Calinescu uses the felicitous term "haunting" to evoke an experience that is no doubt familiar to most readers: "there are texts that haunt other texts," he observes, "in the sense that they appear in them as...

Quel horizon l'on voit du haut de la barricade.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Un des effets curieux de la censure theatrale, telle qu'on la pratiquait au dixneuvieme siecle, est l'interet qu'elle portait aux lieux ou se passait l'action des ouvrages qu'elle avait a examiner. Certains endroits en particulier excitaient...

Dandyism, gems, and epigrams: lapidary style and genre transformation in Barbey's Les Diaboliques.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003

Realite et imaginaire des parcs et des jardins dans la deuxieme moitie du XIX siecle.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... C'est l'ampleur ou la composition gracieuse de ces tableaux qui fait le charme des jardins modernes. -- Aldolphe Alphand (xv) Elles [les nuits de sommeil profond] nous font retrouver la ou nos muscles plongent et tordent leurs...

A propos du "Rachildisme" ou Rachilde et les lesbiennes.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... La lesbienne hante l'espace romanesque rachildien fin de siecle dans un contexte decadent pour le moins ambivalent. Car si Rachilde a ete parmi les premieres femmes a introduire des lesbiennes dans ses oevres et a les utiliser pour destabiliser...

The frontiers of popular exoticism: Marie Bonaparte's New Orleans crossings.(race and exile in the works of Marie Bonaparte)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In stories and novels designed primarily for female consumption and published throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, popular novelists played an essential role in transforming the female traveler into a heroic model of...

The sex of science: medicine, naturalism, and feminism in Lucie Delarue-Mardrus's Marie, fille-mere.(women's sexuality and French naturalism)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003

Jenson, Deborah. Trauma and Its Representations: the Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. Pp. 294. ISBN 08018-6723-1/4071-2 In this profound, engaging book, Deborah Jenson develops a comprehensive, highly original analysis of French romanticism. Instead of following the deconstructive lead of...

Schehr, Lawrence R. Rendering French Realism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. Pp. 268. ISBN 0-8047-2782-2 "Furieux d'intelligence": no phrase better captures the almost maniacal interpretive pressure of Lawrence Schehr's magnificent Rendering French Realism than these words of Stephane...

Thiher, Allen. Fiction Rivals Science: the French Novel from Balzac to Proust.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... U of Missouri P, 2001. Pp. 226. ISBN 0-8262-1357 According to Nadar, Balzac explained his "terror" of the photographic medium in terms of a somewhat anachronistic theory of its relation to physical matter: According to Balzac, each...

Ziegler, Robert. Beauty, Raises the Dead: Literature and Loss in the Fin de Siecle.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Newark: U of Delaware P, 2002. Pp. 189. ISBN 0-87413-773-X Beauty Raises the Dead is the book of a scholar who has published more on Decadent authors than perhaps any other nineteenth-century specialist, and this long before it became a...

Bann, Stephen. Parallel Lines. Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. Pp. ix + 254. ISBN 0-300-08932-5 The art historian Stephen Bann has produced several studies of significance to interdisciplinary scholars of nineteenth-century France, including The Clothing of Clio and...

Brettell, Richard R. Impression: Painting Quickly in France 1860-1890.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Yale UP, 2000. Pp. 240, 169 color illustrations. ISBN 0-300-0844-171 Art-historical scholarship on Impressionism over the course of the last thirty or so years has been among the most energetic and ambitious in the field. The vast social...

Bullard, Alice. Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000. Pp. 380. ISBN 0-8047-3878-5 Alice Bullard's Exile to Paradise provides an exhaustive historical account of the deportation and exile of some 4,500 Communards (including twenty women) to New Caledonia, which was...

David, Marie-France. Antiquite latine et decadence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Pp. 564. ISBN 2-7453-0359-7 "Regardez. Nous sommes a Rome!" declare Claudius Ethal dans Monsieur de Phocas de Jean Lorrain. Ouvrez Antiquite latine et Decadence de Marie-France David, c'est tres exactement l'impression que vous eprouvez....

Herbert, Robert L. Seurat: Drawings and Paintings.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2001. Pp. 208, Illus: 117 b/w + 40 color. ISBN 0-300-07131-0 Seurat: Drawings and Paintings reprints a selection of texts by the influential art historian Robert Herbert and represents almost half a century's...

Hesse, Carla. The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. Pp. 233. ISBN 20-691-07472-0 Very often we draw the distinction between social conventions and prescriptions versus how people actually behave. It is common sense to assume that if someone is discouraged from...

McWilliam, Neil. Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, a Nationalist Sculptor in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Pennsylvania State UP, 2000. Pp. xiv + 326. ISBN 0271-01965-4 As we watch wide-eyed at a resurgence of ultraconservative nationalism in France, the examination of its nineteenth-century counterparts and the needs they answered for...

Morowitz, Laura, and William Vaughan, eds. Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2000. Pp. 205. ISBN 0-75460014-9 Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century explores the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions shaping the emergence of groups such as the Nazarenes, the...

Tiersten, Lisa. Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. Pp. 236. ISBN 0-520-22529-5 Mass consuming, according to Tiersten, was a greater cultural problem in France than in the other great powers because the ideology of individualism was weaker. Republicanism...

Boutin, Aimee. Maternal Echoes: the Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Newark: U of Delaware P, 2001. Pp. 246. ISBN 087413-727-6 The Romantic tradition passed on a patrilineal genealogy, an "engendered canon" as Michael Danahy has demonstrated (1988), that betrayed the authority of women's poetic production...

Porter, Laurence M., ed. Approaches to Teaching Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Approaches to Teaching World Literature. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2000. Pp. 209. ISBN 0-87352-752-6 No doubt, there is a fascinating as well as a motivating twist to the idea of having one day to teach a course...

Bertrand-Jennings, Chantal. D'un siecle a l'autre: Les Romans de Claire de Duras.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Jaignes, France: La Chasse au Snark, 2002. Pp. 139. ISBN 2-914015-08-9 Chantal Bertrand-Jennings's D'un siecle l'autre: Les Romans de Claire de Duras contributes to the rediscovery of Claire de Duras's novels and integrates them in a...

Laut-Berr, Sylvie. Flaubert et l'Antiquite: Itineraires d'une passion.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Champion, 2001. Pp. 390. ISBN 2-7453-0387-2 En 1852, Flaubert evoque l'idee d'un livre sur "l'interpretation de l'antiquite" tout en percevant l'ampleur du travail: "Ce serait l'oeuvre de toute une vie [...]." Il n'ecrira jamais ce livre...

Monte, Steven, trans. Victor Hugo: Selected Poetry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Monte, Steven, trans. Victor Hugo: Selected Poetry. Manchester: Carcanet, 2001. Pp. xxxiii + 305. ISBN 1-85754-539-7 Caws, Mary Ann, ed. Mallarme in Prose. New York: New Directions, 2001. Pp. 152. ISBN 0-8112-1451-6 These two new...

Correspondance d'Alphonse de Lamartine (1830-1867), Tome III: 1833-1837.(Book Review) (book review)
March 22, 2003

Stafford, Helene. Mallarme and the Poetics of Everyday Life: a Study of the Concept of the Ordinary in his Verse and Prose.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... (Faux Titre: Etudes de langue et litterature francaises, No. 198.) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2000. Pp. 244. ISBN 90-420-1314-1 This study asserts repeatedly that Mallarme really did use the themes and vocabulary of everyday life in a poetry...

Powell, David A. While the Music Lasts: the Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Lewisburg: Bucknell UP/London: AUP, 2001. Pp. 381. ISBN 0-83875474-0 Unlike so many interdisciplinary studies which deal with the relationship between literature and the visual arts, this one brings together literature and the art form...

Berthier, Philippe, and Pierre-Louis Rey, eds. Stendhal, journaliste anglais.(Stendhal sous l'oeil de la presse contemporaine (1817-1843))(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Berthier, Philippe, and Pierre-Louis Rey, eds. Stendhal, journaliste anglais. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2001. Pp. 238. ISBN 2-87854-196-0 Del Litto, Victor, ed. Stendhal sous l'oeil de la presse contemporaine (1817-1843)....

Crouzet, Michel, ed. Stendhal: D'un nouveau complot contre les industriels.(Book Review) (book review)
March 22, 2003

Thorel-Cailleteau, Sylvie. La Pertinence realiste: Zola.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Paris: Champion. 2001. Pp. 226. ISBN 2-7453-0512-3 Any attempt to summarize the author's subtle, erudite, complex, multi-tiered thesis in the short space permitted here, would fail to do it justice. This book is a major contribution to the...