Current Table of Contents

Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 54, numbers 1–2, fall–winter 2025–26 (scroll down for book reviews)

ARTICLES

Elizabeth Amann
Plots of Land: Revolution and Property Reform in Victor Ducange’s Isaurine et Jean-Pohl ou Les Révolutions du château de Gît-au-Diable (1830)

Nathalie Kremer
Rêves de pierre: la littérature par la sculpture au dix-neuvième siècle

Nigel Lezama
Paris, capitale de la mode: rayonnement ou brouillard?   

Marit Grøtta
Desire for a Photograph: Baudelaire’s Imagined Portrait of his Mother 

Magdala Lissa Jeudy
A Matter of Patient Dignity: Recovering the Textual Woman in the Goncourts’ Germinie Lacerteux

Roderick Cooke
Octave Mouret, Experimental Novelist? Reverse Metafiction in Au Bonheur des Dames

Alessandra Aloisi
On the Threshold of Dreams: Proust and Maine de Biran

William Olmsted
Dinner with Proust: Dreyfusism and Anti-Semitism in À la recherche du temps perdu

Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls
How Do You Bury a Poet? Baudelaire Down Under

REVIEWS

N.B. 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) 

SCIENCE AND NATURE

Bodlet, Benoît. Les Histoires d’Élisée Reclus: divulgation scientifique et émancipation 
Abigail Fields                                                        

Hornstein, Katie. Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century 
Dane Stalecup                                                        

Orr, Mary. Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Annie K. Smart                                                      

Séginger, Gisèle, editor. La Nature à Paris au XIXe siècle: du réel à l’imaginaire
Sun-Young Park

HISTORY AND POETICS

Bernard, Claudie. Si l’Histoire m’était contée… le roman historique de Vigny à Rosny aîné
Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin

Bardel, Alain. Une saison en enfer ou Rimbaud l’introuvable
Vaillant, Alain. Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud, ou le livre à “la prose de diamant”
Thomas C. Connolly                                              

Yamaguchi, Liesl. On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking through Synesthesia
Jonathan Strauss

MAJOR AUTHORS REVISITED

Cabiati, Alessandro. Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857–1912
Nicole Ferrari                                                        

Paul, Zakir. Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism
Bryan Counter                                                       

Gleize, Joëlle. Balzac interrompu
Kristina Roney

FIN-DE-SIÈCLE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Craske, Helen. Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature
Sharon Larson                                                        

Grout, Holly. Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France
Prudence Jones

COLONIALISM AND ORIENTALISM

Harrison, Carole E., and Thomas J. Brown. Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance.  
Sima Godfrey                                                        

Hartley, Julia Caterina. Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France  
Mikaela Hart and Margot Irvine                            

Séquin, Caroline. Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950
Gregory Valdespino