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Nigel Harkness / Paul Rowe / Tim Unwin
/ Jennifer Yee (eds.)
VISIONS / REVISIONS
Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Culture
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien,
2004. 330 pp., 2 ill., 4 tables French Studies of the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries. Vol. 14 Edited by Malcolm Cook and James Kearns
ISBN 3-03910-140-4 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6950-5 pb.
Selected from papers given at the first annual conference of the Society
of Dix-Neuvièmistes,
the nineteen essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision
and a reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century France. Many adopt interdisciplinary
methodologies attentive to the interplay between literature, history,
art, popular and high culture, politics and science. The wide-ranging
discussion of issues such as identity, alterity, commemoration, cultural
history, tensions between centre and margins, mimesis and representation,
suggest that no simplistic snapshot of this century is possible. Opening
with a section on the modernity of the nineteenth century, the volume
continues with sections on cultural transfer, war, readings and re-readings,
and concludes with two essays on questions of identity. The critical
reappraisals put forward here offer us various insights into directions
in which nineteenth-century French studies are heading at the turn of
another new century.
Contents
NIGEL HARKNESS, PAUL ROWE, TIM UNWIN, JENNIFER YEE Introduction
Towards modernity
MARGARET COHEN The Waterways of Modernity: The Case of Haussmann’s
Paris
EDWARD WELCH Zola, Jourdain and the Architectonics of Modernity
AUDE CAMPMAS Les Fleurs de serre: entre science et littérature
à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle
MIRANDA GILL Hieroglyphs of the Mind: Delirious Interpretation and the
Psychology of Enigma, 1830–1910
Transculturation
MARY ORR Provincial Transfers and French Cultures: Flaubert’s Voyage
aux Pyrénées et en Corse
HEATHER WILLIAMS Une sauvagerie très douce
KATHLEEN CAMBOR ‘L’Invasion!’: Colonising France’s Mediterranean South
TOM VERSCHAFFEL Art and Nationality: The French Perception of Belgian
Painters at the Paris Salons (1831–1865)
War and its (re)visions
KATE TURNER Balloons over Bismarck: The Interplay of Fact and Fiction
in Representations of the Fabulous History of the Balloon during the
Siege of Paris
HANNAH THOMPSON A Battle in the Feminine? The Gendered Body and the
Franco-Prussian War
RACHEL CHRASTIL Great Powers, Small Communities: Commemorating the Franco-Prussian
War, 1871–1914
KARINE VARLEY Memorialising the Defence of Paris: The Commemoration
of the Franco-Prussian War in the Capital
Readings/re-readings
MICHAEL TILBY Past or Present? A New Look at the French Historical
Novel of the Late 1820s
JUDITH WULF ‘Rabâchage’ et formation du sens romanesque chez Victor
Hugo
DAVID EVANS Baudelaire and Irresolvable Poetic Tension
PETER DAYAN L’Obscurité, entre Mallarmé et Proust
MASHA BELENKY Gender Reversals: Reading Balzac with Rachilde
New identities
GÖRAN BLIX The Archaeology of Private Life: The Romantic Discourse
of Intimacy
JAMES F. MCMILLAN Rediscovering Louis Veuillot: The Politics of Religious
Identity in Nineteenth-Century France
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