Volume 52, Numbers 1-2 (Fall/Winter 2023-2024)
Contents
Invited Essay
Conceptualizing Trajectories of Readability
Michael Lucey
Articles
Ballet and Celebrity at the Paris Opera, or the Dreams of the
Rat
Madison Mainwaring
Between Science and Sorcery: Reimagining Human and Animal Relationality in George Sand’s
La Petite Fadette
Leah Powers
The Initial Expression is the Final Impression: The First Sentence of Baudelaire’s “Le Peintre de la vie moderne”
Hammam Aldouri
“Confidences épistolaires de la Vénus publique”: Real-time Communication, Voyeuristic Reading, and Social Media’s Erotic Pre-History in the
Petite Correspondance
Hannah Frydman
“Sans doute habituée à une existence sédentaire”: des Esseintes’s Turtle and the Residue of Naturalism
Susanna Lee
Le discours méditique transatlantique avant 1900: l’exemple de la première tournée de Sarah Bernhardt en Amérique
Corina Sandu
Homeless Narrative in Jean Lorrain’s
Monsieur de Phocas
Robert Ziegler
Reviews
Published online at www.ncfs-journal.org
MEDIA MATTERS
Albert, Nicole G., and Patrick Chardon, editors.
Akademos, la première revue homosexuelle française, 1909: mode d’empoi
Robert O. Steele
Brehm, Brett.
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature
Renée Altergott
Foss, Colin.
The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870–1871
Sima Godfrey
Planté, Christine, and Marie-Ève Thérenty, editors.
Féminin / Masculin dans la presse du XIXe siècle
Helen Craske
Smith, Macs.
Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City
Aimée Boutin
FORM AND FUNCTION
Färnlöf, Hans.
La Motivation littéraire: du formalisme russe au constructivisme
Christina A. Oikonomopoulou
Lübecker, Nikolaj.
Twenty-First Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé
Eloïse Sureau
Pearson, Roger.
The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver
Helen Abbott
SPORTS AND LEISURE
Cropper, Corry, and Seth Whidden, editors.
Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France
Elizabeth Emery
Guégan, Stéphane.
Baudelaire: l’art contre l’ennui
Yves Laberge
Ville, Sylvain.
Le Théâtre de la boxe: naissance d’un spectacle sportif (Paris-Londres, 1880–1930)
Corry Cropper
IMPERIAL PASSAGES
Cooper, Barbara, éditrice.
Crimes et châtiments dans l’aire atlantique (1827–1841): une anthologie
Maria Beliaeva Solomon
Hartley, Julia, Wanrug Suwanwattana, and Jennifer Yee, editors.
French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and Exoticism
Richard Riddick
Murray-Miller, Gavin.
Empire Unbound: France and the Muslim Mediterranean, 1880–1918
Margaret Anderson
Todd, David.
A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Maureen DeNino
Rattazzi, Marie, née Bonaparte-Wyse, edited by Barbara T. Cooper.
L’Advenurière des colonies: drame en cinq actes suivi de documents inédits
Courtney Sullivan
NEW DIRECTIONS
Bouamer, Siham, and Loïc Bourdeau, editors.
Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies: New Approaches to Teaching
Éric Essono Tsimi
Boulard, Stéphanie, and Pierre Georgel.
Hugographies: rêveries de Victor Hugo sur les lettres de l’alphabet
Briana Lewis
Conroy, Melanie.
Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust
Bianca Romaniuc-Boularand
VISUAL ARTS
Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn.
Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Harmon Siegel
Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo.
Creole: Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations During the Long Nineteenth Century
Jennifer Yee
Thomson, Richard.
The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity
Jonathan P. Ribner
