Dix-Neuf: The Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes would like to announce the launch of its new journal _Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes_.
The first number is now (exceptionally) available online, at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/french/sdn/dixneuf/currentissue.htm
The contents of the first number are listed below, followed by an invitation for submissions of articles for forthcoming numbers.
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GENERAL REMIT
Dix-Neuf has an interdisciplinary remit and aims to situate itself as a principal source of cutting-edge research in nineteenth-century French and francophone studies in all relevant disciplines: literatures, historical research, cultural analysis, and art history. It will also promote new critical and theoretical debate in all aspects of the subject area. It will offer the scholarly community an electronic journal which sets out to attract both readers and contributors by the range and quality of its articles.
There will be two issues per year, with a minimum of four articles in each, any article not normally to exceed 8,000 words.
The journal will, from the outset, have the highest standards of refereeing and review, with strict and transparent policies, integrating all the best features of traditional scholarly publication into the electronic environment, capitalising on the possibilities offered by the meeting of the two media. The electronic format will make possible the integration of image files, hyperlinks and even sound or video links or files.
The Editors
The Editors are nominated by the Executive Committee of SDN. They are: Sonya Stephens (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Nicholas White (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
The Advisory and Editorial Boards
The Boards represent the broad spectrum of interests in the field and the intellectual and international profile of the proposed journal.
Advisory Board: Malcolm Bowie (Cambridge); Margaret Cohen (NYU); Antoine Compagnon (Paris IV/Columbia); Timothy J. Clark (Berkeley); Philippe Hamon (Paris III); Henri Mitterand (Columbia); Jacques Neefs (Paris VIII/Johns Hopkins); Tamar Garb (University College London); Christopher Prendergast (Cambridge).
Editorial Board: Stephen Bann (Bristol); David Baguley (Durham); Ceri Crossley (Birmingham); Mary Donaldson-Evans (Delaware); JA Hiddleston (Oxford); Rosemary Lloyd (Indiana); James McMillan (Edinburgh); Neil McWilliam (Warwick); Catherine Nesci (Santa Barbara); Brian Nelson (Monash); Pam Pilbeam (Royal Holloway, London); Lawrence Schehr (Champaign-Urbana); Charles Stivale (Wayne State); Michael Tilby (Cambridge).
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CONTENTS
Dix-Neuf, Number 1, September 2003
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/french/sdn/dixneuf/currentissue.htm
Foreword by Tim Unwin
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, 'Belly Talk: Gastronomie, gastrolâtrie, and gourmandise in the 19th century'
Diana Holmes, 'Decadent Love: Rachilde and the Popular Romance'
Michel Pierssens, 'Le sens de la "vie" et le nouveau Grand Dictionnaire Universel du 19e siècle'
Robert Lethbridge, 'In the Looking Glass: Zola and Contemporary Painting'
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INVITATION TO SUBMIT ARTICLES FOR CONSIDERATION
There will be 2 issues of the journal published in each academic year (September and April), with 4 articles in each, any article not normally to exceed 8,000 words.
Guidelines for Authors
Length of articles
Articles as a rule can be as long as 8,000 words. Please send electronic copies (preferably a Word file attachment) of your article to both the editors:
Sonya Stephens: s.stephens@rhul.ac.uk (Department of French, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Nick White: njw16@cam.ac.uk (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK)
Page numbering
All but the first page of the text proper should be numbered.
Titles
Italicize the titles of books, plays, and periodicals; short stories and poems are to be put in quotation marks.
In titles of French journals and periodicals, the first word and all the principal words are capitalized. In other French titles, the first word is always capitalized; if a substantive immediately follows an initial article, it is also capitalized; if the substantive is preceded by an adjective both are capitalized; if the title begins with any word other than an article or adjective, the words following are all in lower case: Revue des Sciences Humaines; La Revue des Deux Mondes; Les Femmes homicides; Histoire de la vie privée; Le Pur et l'impur; A la recherche du temps perdu; En rade; "La Fausse Monnaie".
Documentation
For documentation, Dix-Neuf follows the author-date system, as in The MLA Style Manual (New York: Modern Lang. Assn., 2nd ed., 1999). Endnotes for substantive comment only, plus a Works Cited list. Copies of The MLA Style Manual may be purchased from the MLA, 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003 or from http://www.mla.org/. The most relevant sections of this style manual for documentation in Dix-Neuf are those found on pages 155 to 250, sections 6.6 to 7.4.10.
Illustrations
The electronic format of Dix-Neuf facilitates links to all sorts of illustrations in ways which will amplify the interdisciplinary potential of the journal. Authors should identify the web location of relevant images, and where necessary, acquire permission for the reproduction of images.
Guide for References
Endnotes are to be avoided for bibliographical information. Rather, the essay must contain a Works Cited section. For a multi-volume work, always state the complete number of volumes. To indicate page and volume number, a brief reference should be inserted, within parentheses, in the text itself. Use Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals, when giving volume numbers, followed by a colon and page numbers. Special note should be taken that "Ibid." and "op. cit." are no longer used, nor are the abbreviations "p." or "pp."
Examples of Works Cited:
Balzac, Honoré de. 1976-81. La Comédie humaine. 12 vols. Paris: Gallimard-Pléiade.
Spang, Rebecca. 2000. The Invention of the Restaurant. Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Examples of Parenthetical References in the Text:
In La Cousine Bette Balzac intones: "La courtisane, au contraire, serait l'oeuvre de Carême avec ses condiments, avec ses épices et ses recherches" (7: 319).
(7 refers to volume number, 319 to page number.)
French literary history is marked by the "immense shadow" (Furet 156) of the Revolution.
Or:
In Furet's view French literary history is marked by the "immense shadow" (156) of the Revolution.