Current Table of Contents
Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 53, numbers 3–4, spring–summer 2025 (scroll down for book reviews)
ARTICLES
Charlotte Berkery
“If the nightcap fits . . .”: Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions
Pauline de Tholozany
On the Fragility of Sanity: The Charenton Asylum in and out of Le Livre des cent-et-un
SPECIAL SECTION: “Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies”
Edited by Cary Hollinshead-Strick and Anne O’Neil-Henry
Cary Hollinshead-Strick and Anne O’Neil-Henry
Introduction
Mary Grace Albanese
Technologies of Spirit: Haitian Energy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century
Arthur Houplain
Étoiles, volcans et feux follets: le gaz d’éclairage, miroir des ambivalences du Progrès
John Cropper
The Imperial Energy Economy: Energy, Industrialization, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
Édouard Bourdelle
Dominer la Nature, reproduire la Nature: enjeux de l’énergie à Paris
Erin E. Edgington
“Emparons-nous du sol!”: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests
Pauline Noblecourt
Fantastical Steam Machines: Fuel and Energy in Nineteenth-Century Parisian revues de fin d’année
REVIEWS
FAMOUS FIGURES
Holmes, Diana, and Martine Reid. Introduction à l’œuvre de Daniel Lesueur: “Conscience féminine élève la voix!”
Haleigh Heaps Burgon
Horowitz, Sarah. The Red Widow
Kathryne Adair Corbin
Gamble, Cynthia. Marie Nordlinger, la muse anglaise de Marcel Proust
Elizabeth Emery
Islert, Camille. Renée Vivien: une poétique sous influence?
Melanie Hawthorne
AUSPICIOUS ORIGINS
Chrastil, Rachel. Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
Thibault Montbazet
Godfrey, Sima. The Crimean War and Cultural Memory: The War France Won and Forgot
Guillaume Lancereau
Blaszkiewicz, Jacek. Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris
Mark Seto
READINGS AND REPRESENTATIONS
Daouda, Marie Kawthar. L’Anti-Salomé: représentations de la féminité bienveillante au temps de la décadence (1850–1910)
Céline Brossillon
Even, Kevin. La Question environnementale chez Jules Verne: écrire, prédire, prévenir la catastrophe écologique
Paule Carbonnel
Foliard, Daniel. The Violence of Colonial Photography
Johann Le Guelte
Brix, Michel. Du classicisme au réalisme: une histoire de la littérature française (XVIIe–XXIe siècles)
Christina Oikonomopoulou
CULTURE AND POLITICS
Krueger, Cheryl. Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France
Janet Beizer
Bauer, Nicole. Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France
Rebecca Sugden
Zdatny, Steven. A History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust
Jacob Meister
Kalman, Samuel. Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria, 1870–1954
Kathleen Keller
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Lumbroso, Olivier. Dans l’atelier d’Émile Zola
Nicholas White
McGuinness, Max. Hustlers in the Ivory Tower: Press and Modernism from Mallarmé to Proust
Pascal Ifri
Thivend, Marianne. Ces femmes qui comptent: le genre de l’enseignement commercial en France au XIXe siècle
Bénédicte Monicat
Cooke, Roderick. The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics
Richard Riddick