Nineteenth-Century French Studies 53.3–4, spring–summer 2025 : "“Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies”

Date de publication : 10 Juin 2025

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Publié le 10 Juin 2025 par Marc Escola (Source : Seth Whidden)

The Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies is pleased to announce the publication of volume 53 numbers 3–4 (Spring–Summer 2025). The issue includes the special section “Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies,” as well as a range of articles and reviews that highlight the breadth of the discipline: from the nightcaps, the Charenton asylum, Louisa Siefert, and Renée Vivien to war, colonial photography, perfume, hygiene, and the Dreyfus Affair. As such, it continues the journal’s longstanding tradition of covering the full range of studies of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields.

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Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 53, numbers 3–4 / Spring–Summer 2025

ARTICLES

Charlotte Berkery
“If the nightcap fits . . .”: Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Production
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961618

Pauline de Tholozany
On the Fragility of Sanity: The Charenton Asylum in and out of Le Livre des cent-et-un
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961619

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
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961620

Mary Grace Albanese
Technologies of Spirit: Haitian Energy Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961621

Arthur Houplain
Étoiles, volcans et feux follets: le gaz d’éclairage, miroir des ambivalences du Progrès
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961622

John Cropper
The Imperial Energy Economy: Energy, Industrialization, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961623

Édouard Bourdelle
Dominer la Nature, reproduire la Nature: enjeux de l’énergie à Paris
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961624

Erin E. Edgington
“Emparons-nous du sol!”: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961625

Pauline Noblecourt
Fantastical Steam Machines: Fuel and Energy in Nineteenth-Century Parisian revues de fin d’année
https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2025.a961626

REVIEWS

Published online at www.ncfs-journal.org

FAMOUS FIGURES

Holmes, Diana, and Martine Reid. Introduction à l’œuvre de Daniel Lesueur: “Conscience féminine élève la voix!”
Haleigh Heaps Burgon

Boutin, Aimée, Adrianna M. Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt, editors. Redécouvrir Louisa Siefert (1845–1877): richesse d’une œuvre de femme à l’ère de la modernité
Anne Marcoline

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