The Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies is pleased to announce the publication of volume 54 numbers 1–2 (Fall–Winter 2025–26). The issue includes a range of articles and reviews that highlight the breadth of the discipline: from property reform, Élisée Reclus, sculpture, synesthesia, and Proust to female celebrity, patient dignity, Balzac, race and prostitution, Baudelaire, and military fashion. As such, it continues the journal’s longstanding tradition of covering the full range of studies of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields.
A full table of contents is below and also online at www.ncfs-journal.org and https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56556.
All of the journal’s book reviews from this volume are accessible online and without subscription. In addition, the web site offers complete archives of the journal’s publications since it began in 1972: table of contents from every issue, abstracts of all of the articles, and all of the book reviews published online. Finally, the web site also provides complete information about all aspects of the journal’s activities.
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 54, numbers 1–2 / Fall–Winter 2025–26
ARTICLES
Elizabeth Amann, “Plots of Land: Revolution and Property Reform in Victor Ducange’s Isaurine et Jean-Pohl ou Les Révolutions du château de Gît-au-Diable (1830).” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985106
Nathalie Kremer, “Rêves de pierre: la littérature par la sculpture au dix-neuvième siècle.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985107
Nigel Lezama, “Paris, capitale de la mode: rayonnement ou brouillard?” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985108
Marit Grøtta, “Desire for a Photograph: Baudelaire’s Imagined Portrait of his Mother.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985109
Magdala Lissa Jeudy, “A Matter of Patient Dignity: Recovering the Textual Woman in the Goncourts’ Germinie Lacerteux.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985110
Roderick Cooke, “Octave Mouret, Experimental Novelist? Reverse Metafiction in Au Bonheur des Dames.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985111
Alessandra Aloisi, “On the Threshold of Dreams: Proust and Maine de Biran.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985112
William Olmsted, “Dinner with Proust: Dreyfusism and Anti-Semitism in À la recherche du temps perdu.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985113
Valentina Gosetti and Alistair Rolls, “How Do You Bury a Poet? Baudelaire Down Under.” https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/985114
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REVIEWS: published online at www.ncfs-journal.org
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SCIENCE AND NATURE
Bodlet, Benoît. Les Histoires d’Élisée Reclus: divulgation scientifique et émancipation. Review by Abigail Fields, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/abigail-fields/fields-bodlet-2024
Hornstein, Katie. Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century. Review by Dane Stalcup, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/dane-stalcup/stalcup-hornstein-2024
Orr, Mary. Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History. Review by Annie K. Smart, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/annie-k-smart/smart-orr-2024
Séginger, Gisèle, editor. La Nature à Paris au XIXe siècle: du réel à l’imaginaire. Review by Sun-Young Park, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/sun-young-park/park-seginger-2023
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POETICS
Bernard, Claudie. Si l’Histoire m’était contée… Le roman historique de Vigny à Rosny aîné. Review by Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/corinne-saminadayar-perrin/saminadayar-perrin-bernard-2021
Bardel, Alain. Une saison en enfer ou Rimbaud l’introuvable; and Vaillant, Alain. Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud, ou le livre à “la prose de diamant”. Review by Thomas C. Connolly, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/thomas-c-connolly/connolly-bardel-2023-and-vaillant-2023
Yamaguchi, Liesl. On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking through Synesthesia. Review by Jonathan Strauss, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/jonathan-strauss/strauss-yamaguchi-2024
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MAJOR AUTHORS REVISITED
Cabiati, Alessandro. Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity: From the Scapigliatura to the Futurist Movement, 1857–1912. Review by Nicole Ferrari, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/nicole-ferrari/ferrari-cabiati-2022
Paul, Zakir. Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism. Review by Bryan Counter, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/bryan-counter/counter-paul-2024
Gleize, Joëlle. Balzac interrompu. Review by Kristina Roney, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/kristina-roney/roney-gleize-2023
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FIN-DE-SIÈCLE LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Craske, Helen. Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature. Review by Sharon Larson, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/sharon-larson/larson-craske-2024
Grout, Holly. Playing Cleopatra: Inventing the Female Celebrity in Third Republic France. Review by Prudence Jones, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/prudence-jones/jones-grout-2024
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COLONIALISM AND ORIENTALISM
Harrison, Carole E., and Thomas J. Brown. Zouave Theaters: Transnational Military Fashion and Performance. Review by Sima Godfrey, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/sima-godfrey/godfrey-harrison-and-brown-2024
Hartley, Julia Caterina. Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France. Review by Mikaela Hart and Margot Irvine, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/mikaela-hart-and-margot-irvine/hart-and-irvine-hartley-2023
Sequin, Caroline. Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950. Review by Gregory Valdespino, https://www.ncfs-journal.org/gregory-valdespino/valdespino-sequin-2024