French Studies (79.4) — New research on Zola, Surrealism, democracy, and trauma writing

French Studies Volume 79.4 is now available online — New research on Zola, Surrealism, democracy, and trauma writing. 

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Table of contents Volume 79, Issue 4

Research Articles

Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist
Jennifer Yee

The Serial Surreal Mannequin: The Art of Repetition at the 1938 Exposition internationale du surréalisme
Kate Foster

From Démodé to Defended: The Uses of ‘démocratie libérale’ in France, 1930–80
Hugo Bonin

Inventing Victoire: Maryse Condé’s Grandmother Paradox
Yan Zhao

Mon frère fantôme de Mahi Binebine: la dualité entre le pathologique et l’esthétique
Mohamed Semlali

Écrire sur l’écriture du trauma: la métatextualité dans Le Voyage dans l’Est de Christine Angot
Florence Chadronnet

How ‘Oral’ Becomes ‘Social’: Eye Dialects in Riad Sattouf’s Comics
Elissa Pustka

Etat Present
État présent: Émile Zola
Claire White

Reviews

Jacob Abell, Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise
Liam Lewis

Corinne Denoyelle, Parler à plusieurs: les polylogues dans la littérature narrative du Moyen Âge
Sophie Marnette

Anthony J. Bruder, Recovering the Medieval in the French Renaissance: Claude Fauchet’s ‘Veilles ou Observations’
Jack Nunn

Luca Di Sabatino, Le Roman de Edipus: imprimé à Paris par Michel Le Noir (1519)
Tania Van Hemelryck

Pascale Mounier, Le Roman à la Renaissance
Virginia Krause

Alice Aurelia Roullière, Ronsard’s Epic Clouds and Ghosts: Illusions and ‘Idoles’ in Early Modern French Literature
Denis Bjaï

View the full list of reviews online > 
The issue includes over forty detailed reviews covering medieval to contemporary literature, language, and culture.

Obituary
OBITUARY: ISABELLE McNEILL (1979–2025)
Emma Wilson

Abstracts
ABSTRACTS

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