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Number 1, September 2003; Number 2, April 2004; Number 3, September 2004; Number 4, April 2005; Number 5, September 2005; Number 6, April 2006; Number 7, October 2006; Number 8, April 2007; Number 9, October 2007; Number 10, April 2008; Number 11, October 2008.

Number 1, September 2003

Foreword by Tim Unwin (p. 1)

Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, 'Belly Talk: Gastronomie, gastrolâtrie, and gourmandise in the 19th century' (pp. 2-15)

Diana Holmes, 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance' (pp. 16-28)

Michel Pierssens, 'Le sens de la «vie» et le nouveau Grand Dictionnaire Universel du 19e siècle de Pierre Larousse' (pp. 29-42)

Robert Lethbridge, 'In the Looking Glass: Zola and Contemporary Painting' (pp. 43-56)

Number 2, April 2004

Diana Knight, 'Celibacy on Display in Two Texts by Balzac: Le Cabinet des Antiques and the Preface to Pierrette' (pp. 1-15)

Michel Brix, 'Sainte-Beuve et la consolation de littérature' (pp. 16-33)

P. M. Wetherill, 'Argent comptant : Lectures naïves de l'naccessible passé' (pp. 34-43)

Roger Pearson, 'Les Chiffres et les Lettres': Mallarmé's 'Or' and the Gold Standard of Poetry' (pp. 44-60)

Number 3, September 2004

Suzanne Nash, 'Alexandre Vattemare: A 19th-Century Story' (pp. 1-17)

Marshall C. Olds, 'Visual Culture: The Later Mallarmé and japonisme' (pp. 18-33)

Pratima Prasad, 'Contesting Realism: Mimesis and Performance in George Sand's Novels' (pp. 34-54)

Peter Cryle, 'Love and Epistemology in French Fiction of the Fin-de-Siècle: in Search of the Pathological Unknown' (pp. 55-74)

Number 4, April 2005

Hélène Denis, 'Flore, imaginaire et quotidien à Paris : Bruyères et roses écossaises 1800-1848' (pp. 1-20)

Mary Donaldson-Evans, 'A Medium of Exchange: The Madame Bovary Film' (pp. 21-34)

Rachel Chrastil, 'Military Preparation in Peacetime: Training Societies 1871-92' (pp. 35-51)

Rosemary Lloyd, 'Reinventing Pegasus: Bicycles and the Fin-de-Siècle Imagination' (pp. 52-60)

Number 5 (September 2005)

Laurence M. Porter, 'Flaubert's Fictional Conversations' (pp. 1-15)

Mary Orr, 'Still Life and Moving Death in Flaubert's L'Éducation sentimentale' (pp. 16-28)

Lisa Downing, 'The Birth of the Beast: Death-Driven Masculinity in Monneret, Zola and Freud' (pp. 29-46)

Robert Ziegler, 'Animal Narrative in Octave Mirbeau's Dingo' (pp. 47-65)

Number 6 (April 2006)

Sara James, 'Bad Girls: Women's Writing on Women in Prison' (pp. 1-13)

Owen Heathcote, 'Sleeping with the Enemy: Women Making History in Balzac's La Femme de trente ans and Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour' (pp. 14-25)

Maurice Samuels, 'Regarding the Crimean War: History, Spectacle, Modernity' (pp. 26-41)

Christophe Reffait, 'La renaissance de la nation selon La Débâcle d'Emile Zola' (pp. 42-54)

Number 7 (October 2006)

Special issue on Delphine de Girardin. Guest editor: Catherine Nesci

List of illustrations (p. i)

Catherine Nesci, 'Introduction' (pp. 1-10)

Claudine Giachetti, ''Une hospitalité contraignante': mère et fille dans les romans de Delphine de Girardin' (pp. 11-23)

Suzanne F. Braswell, 'Breaking the Silence: Antiphonal Voices in the Poetry of Delphine de Girardin' (pp. 24-39)

Laura Colombo, 'L'Atelier d'un peintre, La Canne de M. de Balzac et "L'Ombrelle de Mme de Girardin", ou comment la Muse devient poète' (pp. 40-67)

Margaret Miner, 'Fantastic Taste: Delphine de Girardin's Contes d'une vielle fille à ses neveux' (pp. 68-88)

Cheryl Morgan, 'Alone of all her Sex? Delphine Gay de Girardin's Humor' (pp. 89-111)

Joyce Carlton Johnston, 'No Laughing Matter: Marriage in Delphine Gay de Girardin's Theater' (pp. 112-126)

Marie-Eve Thérenty, ''L'écho dérouté' de Delphine de Girardin, ou l'invention de la polyphonie médiatique' (pp. 127-139)

Cary Hollinshead-Strick, 'Using La Presse to stage La Vérité in Delphine de Girardin's L'Ecole des journalistes' (pp. 140-150)

Number 8 (April 2007)

Paul Rowe, 'From the 'hauteurs nébuleuses de l'utopie' to the 'terrain fécond de la réalité': Henri Lagarmitte, Germany and Saint-Simonian Doctrine' (pp. 1-17)

Helen Abbott and David Evans, 'Music and Poetry at the Crossroads: Baudelaire, Debussy and 'Recueillement'' (pp. 18-38)
(The link above is to a 10Mb file with embedded sound clips; click here for a smaller download using links to separate sound clips. This file requires Acrobat Reader version 8 or above). This article received a High Commendation in the 2008 Malcolm Bowie Prize, organized by the Society for French Studies.

Francesco Manzini, 'Fever, Blood and Frenetic Romanticism: Pétrus Borels 'Don Andréa Vésalius' and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Un prêtre marié' (pp. 39-55)

Bernard Haezewindt, ' La structure des textes de À l'œil d'Alphonse Allais' (pp. 56-70)

Number 9, October 2007

Bradley Stephens, 'Victor Hugo, Charles Renouvier and the
Empowerment of the Poet-Philospher' (pp. 1-16)

Keri A. Berg, 'Modernity’s Meter: The Caricaturist 1830-1870' (pp. 17-32)

Andrew Counter '‘Sain d’esprit’: The Notary as Analyst in
The Short Fiction of Guy de Maupassant' (pp. 33-43)

Katherine Barnes '‘With a smile barely wrinkling the surface’: Christopher Brennan’s Large Musicopoematographoscope and Mallarmé’s Un Coup de dés' (pp. 44-56)

Number 10, April 2008

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, 'Hands Off: Gender, Anxiety and Artistic Identity in the Atelier in Boilly, Mayer and Balzac' (pp. 1-11)

Marni Reva Kessler, 'Antoine Vollon: Rendering Butter' (pp. 12-24)

Michael D. Garval, 'Cléo's Ears' (pp. 25-34)

Oana Panaïté, 'Gustave Lanson et Marcel Schwob: Anachronies Contemporaines' (pp. 35-46)

Number 11, October 2008

State of the Union: Marriage in Nineteenth-Century France

Special Number of Dix-Neuf, Guest Editors Masha Belenky and Rachel Mesch

Rachel Mesch and Masha Belenky, Introduction (pp. 1-6)

Susan Hiner, Marriage Matters: Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
, (pp. 7-22)

Brigitte Mahuzier, Contracts and Conflicts in Balzac’s Early Works, (pp.23-36)

Marina van Zuylen, Mariage de passion or Mariage de raison? Balzac, Michelet and Legrand’s Science du gouvernement intérieur, (pp.37-48)

Dorothy Kelly, The Marriage of Don Juan: Balzac and the Inheritance of Culture, (pp.49-58)

Scott Sprenger, Death by Marriage in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin, (pp. 59-75)

Andrew Counter, Give and Take: Marriage and Disinheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Women’s Writing, (pp. 76-89)

Rachel Mesch, Husbands, Wives and Doctors: Marriage and Medicine in Rachilde, Jane de La Vaudère and Camille Pert, (pp. 90-104)

Laura Spagnoli, Morphine and the Unmaking of Marriage in Fin-de-siècle Fiction, (pp. 105-118)

Lise Schreier, Au secours des non-classées: féminisme, mariage et colonialisme, 1897-1903, (pp. 119-134)

Nicholas White, Marriage, Identity and Epistemology in Third Republic Fiction, (pp. 135-148)