Nineteenth-Century French Studies vol. 49 n° 1–2

The Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies is pleased to announce the publication of volume 49 numbers 1–2 (Fall–Winter 2020-2021). In addition to four varia articles — about abjection in Ourika, botany and Baudelaire, rural life in Huysmans, and sonic violence in Zola — this issue features a special section entitled ‘Célébrités de Delille,’ edited and with an introduction by Hugues Marchal. With these articles and over twenty reviews, this issue continues the journal’s longstanding tradition of covering the full range of studies of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields. A full table of contents is below and also online at www.ncfs-journal.org.

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Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 49 numbers 1 & 2 / Fall–Winter 2020–2021

ARTICLES

Mary Jane Cowles
Paternal Law and the Abject in Ourika

Doyle Calhoun
Flowers for Baudelaire: Urban Botany and Allegorical Writing

Erag Ramizi
Se paysanner: Perilous Non-Contemporaneity in Joris-Karl Huysmans’s En rade

Aimée Boutin
The Sound Crack in Émile Zola’s La Bête humaine

SPECIAL SECTION: « Célébrités de Delille »
edited by Hugues Marchal

Hugues Marchal
Introduction

Hugues Marchal
On récite déjà les vers qu’il fait encore »: Delille victime du teasing?

Nicolas Wanlin
Transferts de gloire: Le panthéon scientifique de Delille

Timothée Léchot
Les entrailles de la célébrité: Le cadavre de Jacques Delille en 1813

Muriel Louâpre
La célébrité au futur antérieur: comment Delille fut occulté des mémoires

REVIEWS

NB 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) 

LE ROMAN ET LE ROMANESQUE

Bray, Patrick M. The Price of Literature: The French Novel’s Theoretical Turn
David F. Bell

Ripoll, Élodie. Penser la couleur en littérature: explorations romanesques des Lumières au réalisme
Maury Bruhn

Paraschas, Sotirios. Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Authorship, Originality, and Intellectual Property
Robert Finnigan

Pasco, Allan H. The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story: Masterpieces in Miniature
Warren Johnson

NOTEWORTHY WOMEN

Léo, André. Le Père Brafort, roman. Texte établi, annoté et commenté par Alice Primi et Jean-Pierre Bonnet
Claudie Bernard

Tilburg, Patricia A. Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880–1919
Susan Hiner

Mitchell, Robin. Vénus noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Julia Caterina Hartley

THÉÂTRE ET BEAUX-ARTS

Gleis, Ralph, editor. Gustave Caillebotte: Painter and Patron of Impressionism
Kedra Kearis

Braun, Juliane. Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
Courtney Sullivan

Dandona, Jessica M. Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-siècle France: The Art of Émile Gallé and the École de Nancy
Claire O’Mahony

TRAVEL AND WANDERING

Pedrazzini, Mariacristina, and Marisa Verna, editors. Paris, un lieu commun
Daniel Finch-Race

Gosetti, Valentina, and Alistair Rolls, editors. Still Loitering: Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers
William Paulson

Le Calvez, Éric, editor. Flaubert voyageur
Sucheta Kapoor

REVOLUTION, EMPIRE, MONARCHY

Coller, Ian. Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
Clayton W. Kindred

Zanone, Damien, editor. “La chose de Waterloo”: une bataille en littérature
Benjamin McRae Amoss

Samuels, Maurice. The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern
Sara Phenix

REREADING NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLASSICS

Del Lungo, Andrea, and Pierre Glaudes, editors. Balzac, l’invention de la sociologie
Paul J. Young

Barjonet, Aurélie, and Jean-Sébastien Macke, editors. Lire Zola au XXIe siècle: colloque de Cerisy
Clive Thomson

Bordas, Éric, editor. Balzac et la langue
Kristina Roney

Diaz, José-Luis, and Mathilde Labbé, editors. Les XIXe siècles de Roland Barthes
Patrick M. Bray

BOHEMIANS, DANDIES, DECADENTS

Glinoer, Anthony. La Bohème: une figure de l’imaginaire social
Brett Brehm

Kociubińska, Edyta, editor. Le Dandysme: de l’histoire au mythe
Pamela A. Genova

Montoro Araque, Mercedes. Gautier, au carrefour de l’ âme romantique et décadente
Pramila Kolekar