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Cartographic Capital
Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889-1934
Av Kory Olson
Inbunden, 2018
2071 kr
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Through official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934). Governmental policies, such as the creation of a mandatory national uniform educational system that will eventually include geography, combined with …
Revisioning French Culture
Inbunden, 2019
2071 kr
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Revisioning French Culture brings together a remarkable group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. …
Humour in Contemporary France
Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions
Inbunden, 2019
2071 kr
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This timely study sheds new light on debates about humour and identity in France, and is the first book about humour and identity in France to be published in either English or French that analyses both debates about Charlie Hebdo and standup comedy. It examines humour, freedom of expression, and …
Culture of War
Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871
Av Colin Foss
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
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The Culture of War explores the unexpected flourishing of literature both high and low during the Siege of Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. When Prussian forces completely blockaded Paris, isolating the city from the outside world, Parisians turned to literature to resist the …
Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics
A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
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In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to humans’ war on nature: Our world view must turn from anthropocentric to ecocentric, and our relationship …
Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects
Representations of Work in Post-Fordist France
Inbunden, 2020
2382 kr
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Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture …
Suicide Voices
Labour Trauma in France
Av Sarah Waters
Inbunden, 2020
2071 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers …
Cartographic Capital
Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889-1934
Av Kory Olson
Häftad, 2021
585 kr
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Through official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934). Governmental policies, such as the creation of a mandatory national uniform educational system that will eventually include geography, combined with …
Sport and Society in Global France
Nations, Migrations, Corporations
Häftad, 2021
626 kr
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From Zinedine Zidane to Michael Jordan and from Marie-José Pérec to Lance Armstrong, over the last thirty years, numerous individuals have emerged through the global sports industry to capture the imagination of the French public and become touchstones for the discussion of a host of social issues. …
Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Inbunden, 2022
2272 kr
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Should all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in 2010, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter claimed that the pressure to breast-feed signified “a reduction of woman to the status of an …
Vehicle for Change
Popular Representations of the Automobile in 20th-Century France
Inbunden, 2022
931 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Since its invention, the automobile has been systematically ‘consumed’, to become part of the fabric of twentieth- and twenty-first-century society, its impact and perception making …
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema
Inbunden, 2024
2166 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city of Paris from 1957 to the present day. The book investigates how women perceive, use, and inhabit the …
Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust
Inbunden, 2024
2491 kr
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Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2025Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.In French literature, newspapers have typically had bad press. Throughout the nineteenth century, French poets and novelists depicted the rapid growth of the press as a …
Humour in Contemporary France
Controversy, Consensus and Contradictions
Häftad, 2022
506 kr
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This timely study sheds new light on debates about humour and identity in France, and is the first book about humour and identity in France to be published in either English or French that analyses both debates about Charlie Hebdo and standup comedy. It examines humour, freedom of expression, and …
Revisioning French Culture
Häftad, 2023
581 kr
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Revisioning French Culture brings together a remarkable group of leading intellectuals and scholars to explore new avenues of research in French and Francophone Studies. Covering the medieval period through the twenty-first century, this volume presents investigations into a vast array of subjects. …
Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics
Inbunden, 2023
2391 kr
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The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him – Ferdinand Brunetière, …
Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust
Häftad, 2026
668 kr
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Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize 2025Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.In French literature, newspapers have typically had bad press. Throughout the nineteenth century, French poets and novelists depicted the rapid growth of the press as a …
Queer Kinships
Resisting Erasure, Queering Relation in Contemporary France
Av CJ Gomolka
Inbunden, 2026
1821 kr
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Queer Kinships explores how queer individuals and communities in France resist erasure and reimagine belonging through inventive practices of kinship. Moving beyond the limited binaries of communitarianism and universalism, the book traces how French queers cultivate relational solidarities across …
Poetry in the Provinces
Reclaiming Provincialism in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2026
2491 kr
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Poetry in the Provinces recovers neglected voices of prominent provincial poets, swept aside by the powerful centralizing forces that shaped nineteenth-century French culture. Backed by extensive archival research, this book shows how, despite being largely overlooked in French literary histories, …
The J3 Affair
Politics, Literature and the Memory of Occupation in a Post-War French Murder Case
Inbunden, 2027
2080 kr
Kommande
In 1948, Claude Panconi fatally shot his classmate, seventeen-year-old Alain Guyader, in the woods outside of Paris. The young assassin initially told police investigators that Guyader was a Nazi before abandoning his political alibi and blaming his favorite authors: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, …
French Studies and the Medical Humanities
Critical Intersections
Inbunden, 2027
2471 kr
Kommande
At a time when the medical humanities is increasingly oriented towards global and transnational perspectives, the contribution of modern languages and cultures to the field remains strikingly underexplored. This groundbreaking volume addresses that omission through the first book-length study of …
Contemporary Projections of French as a World Language
Inbunden, 2027
2231 kr
Kommande
How is French projected among the languages of the world? In what ways can it be counted and used as a world language? What can the study of its representations tell us more generally about the fast-shifting relations between languages today?Ahearne proposes that we distinguish between …
Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema
Häftad, 2024
581 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Parisiennes: City Women in French Cinema examines French films that screen women as main characters in the city of Paris from 1957 to the present day. The book investigates how women perceive, use, and inhabit the …
Mother’s Milk and Male Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Häftad, 2024
495 kr
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Should all mothers breast-feed their children? This question remains controversial in the twenty-first century. In an interview with the newspaper Liberation in 2010, feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter claimed that the pressure to breast-feed signified “a reduction of woman to the status of an …
Contested Vision: Captivity, Creativity, and Paris Prisons, 1793-1894
Inbunden, 2025
1964 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.How to creatively portray the nineteenth-century prison? Presenting original research findings and proposing novel connections between penal and visual history, this book investigates how artists and other inmates …
Shell-Shocked Intimacies: Gender Violence and Women’s Consent in French Culture and Literature of the First World War
Inbunden, 2025
2590 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.The First World War generated a climate of exacerbated nationalism, deep-running anxieties over gender, and heightened masculinisation of suffering. In France, this volatile combination provided meaning to multiple …
Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics
Häftad, 2025
668 kr
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The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him – Ferdinand Brunetière, …
Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica
Häftad, 2025
430 kr
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The Mediterranean island of Corsica, a French territory, experiences mobility in the form of locals’ mass exodus to the Continent, the arrival of immigrants at rates similar to Paris, and a booming tourist industry with millions of visitors each year. What, then, are the multilingual dynamics on …
Ecocritics and Ecoskeptics
A Humanist Reading of Recent French Ecofiction
Häftad, 2023
668 kr
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In France, the fundamental intellectual debate over ecology might best be summarized by the contrasting views of Michel Serres and Luc Ferry. In The Natural Contract, Serres calls for an end to humans’ war on nature: Our world view must turn from anthropocentric to ecocentric, and our relationship …
Suicide Voices
Labour Trauma in France
Av Sarah Waters
Häftad, 2023
581 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers …
