French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries – serie
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Le républicanisme dans la littérature Suisse romande du XVIIIe siècle
Av Helder Mendes Baiao, Robin Howells m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
828 kr
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La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1761) met en scène une petite communauté installée au pied des Alpes dont le mode de vie suit des valeurs républicaines. Cette étude porte sur l'histoire de cette utopie inaboutie qui a forgé l'imaginaire national suisse et qui continue aujourd'hui …
Writing the Self, Writing the Nation
Romantic Selfhood in the Works of Germaine de Staël and Claire de Duras
Av Stacie Allan
Häftad, 2018
892 kr
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The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the foundations of society. As such, these constructs feature as ideological battlegrounds in the search for identity and self-expression within the Romantic …
Hermaphrodite, the Effete and the Butch
Sexual and Gender Ambiguities in Nineteenth-Century French Narratives
Häftad, 2022
814 kr
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Questioning hegemonic masculinity in literature is not novel. In the nineteenth century, under the July Monarchy (1830−1848), several French writers depicted characters who did not conform to gender expectations: hermaphrodites, castrati, homosexuals, effete men and mannish women. This book …
Amongst Women
Literary Representations of Female Homosociality in Belle Epoque France, 1880–1914
Häftad, 2021
783 kr
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«In the wake of pioneering scholarship by Sharon Marcus and Juliette Rogers, Giada Alessandroni’s study situates Belle Époque women’s writing in the broader literary and cultural history of friendship, highlighting how representations of female homosociality were used ‘to deconstruct gender and …
Collector in Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Representation, Identity, Knowledge
Häftad, 2011
622 kr
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The collector was one of the archetypal figures of the nineteenth-century French cultural imagination. During the July Monarchy (1830-48) a new culture of collecting emerged, which continued to develop over the course of the century and which attracted the attention of a wide range of social …
Paris Fine Art Salon/Le Salon, 1791–1881
Häftad, 2015
1305 kr
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Following on from « Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène »: Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791–1890, published in 2010 as an earlier volume in this series, this volume contains a selection of the papers given at the first major international conference to be held on the post-1789 Paris Fine Art …
Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres
Av James Hanrahan, Síofra Pierse
Häftad, 2015
682 kr
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This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopdiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment and an undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices. …
Class Apart
The Military Man in French and British Fiction, 1740–1789
Av Karen Lacey
Häftad, 2016
845 kr
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The military man has long been one of literature’s archetypal figures. Using a comparative framework, this book traces the transformation of the military man in eighteenth-century British and French literature as this figure moved from noble warrior to nationalised professional in response to …
«The Return of the Repressed»: Uncovering Family Secrets in Zola’s Fiction
An Interpretation of Selected Novels
Häftad, 2015
1045 kr
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This book analyses one of the many levels of complexity not readily apparent to the reader of Zolas fiction: the question of the authors family secrets. The novels addressed here present a variety of sub-textual issues highlighting Zolas sexual insecurity and anxiety. Their analysis reveals a …
Walking and the French Romantics
Rousseau to Sand and Hugo
Av Christopher W. Thompson, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
713 kr
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Walking and the French Romantics explores for the first time the relationship between walking and Romanticism in France. It maps this relationship as theme and practice, no social history of pedestrian tours in nineteenth-century France having been written. In this connection, the legacy of …
Individuation and Attachment in the Works of Isabelle de Charrière
Av Jelka Samsom, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
900 kr
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The novels published by Isabelle de Charrière before the French Revolution offer a perceptive account of the psychology and the social climate of the late eighteenth century. The anti-Freudian psychoanalysis of the neurologist and psychiatrist Heinz Kohut (1913-81) is used in this study as a means …
Consumable Metaphors
Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Ceri Crossley, Malcolm Cook m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1101 kr
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This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some well known (for example, Michelet and Lamartine), others largely forgotten (for example, Gleizes and …
Currencies
Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Sarah Capitanio, Lisa Downing m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
800 kr
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The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and literary currencies in nineteenth-century France. Essays focus on the sometimes surprising treatment …
Euro-Orientalism
Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (c. 1740-1880)
Häftad, 2006
1130 kr
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Drawing from a range of critical perspectives, in particular postcolonial, this book examines the relationship between perceptions of Russia and of Eastern Europe and the making of a ‘Western’ identity. It explores the ways in which the perception of certain characteristics of Russia and Eastern …
Balzac and Violence
Representing History, Space, Sexuality and Death in La Comédie humaine
Häftad, 2009
721 kr
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Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Honoré de Balzac. Executions, murders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the Terror to the Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite …
Preserving the Provinces
Small Town and Countryside in the Work of Honoré de Balzac
Av Andrew Watts
Häftad, 2007
1073 kr
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Though famed for his vivid depictions of nineteenth-century Paris, Honoré de Balzac devoted as much of his creative energy to the provinces. This book examines the way in which he combined a theatrical tradition of anti-provincial satire with a more open celebration of French provincial life in the …
Ce Salon à quoi tout se ramène
Le Salon de peinture et de sculpture, 1791-1890
Av James Kearns
Häftad, 2009
639 kr
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Exposition organisée par l’État jusqu’en 1881, grande fête annuelle ou bisannuelle de l’art, le Salon de peinture et de sculpture domine la vie artistique à Paris tout au long du dix-neuvième siècle. Dans l’historiographie de la modernité artistique, cependant, le rôle de ce « Salon à quoi tout se …
George Sand : Intertextualité et Polyphonie I
Palimpsestes, Échanges, Réécritures
Av Nigel Harkness, Jacinta Wright
Häftad, 2010
1596 kr
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L’œuvre littéraire de George Sand entretient un dialogue multiple, manifeste et soutenu avec d’autres auteurs et d’autres textes. Ce dialogue, engagé surtout avec des prédécesseurs et des contemporains tels que Rousseau, Shakespeare, Goethe, Mme de Genlis, Balzac et Flaubert, n’est pas uniquement …
George Sand : Intertextualité et Polyphonie II
Voix, Image, Texte
Av Nigel Harkness, Jacinta Wright
Häftad, 2010
1567 kr
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Les essais contenus dans ce volume poursuivent les réflexions entamées dans George Sand : Intertexualité et Polyphonie I. Là où le premier volume a mis en valeur la polysémie intertextuelle du roman sandien, les articles réunis dans ce volume soulignent la centralité du dialogue et du dialogisme, …
Playing Simplicity
Polemical Stupidity in the Writing of the French Enlightenment
Av Robin Howells, James Kearns
Häftad, 2002
778 kr
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Polemical stupidity – a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin – denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does not understand the world, thus unmasking its incoherence. But in literature it can cover too the …
