French Studies is published on behalf of the Society for French Studies. The journal publishes articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics (historical and contemporary), all periods and aspects of literature in France and the French-speaking world, thought and the history of ideas, cultural studies, film, and critical theory.
Volume 61, Number 1, January 2007
ARTICLES :
Paul Smith : LITERATURE AND ART
This special issue of French Studies examines a body of narratives featuring French art and artists published at representative periods during the nineteenth century (in both French and English). There are strong thematic continuities between many of the examples discussed, particularly as regards their concern over the social and economic position of the artist, and the nature and gendering of creativity. The topoi of the genius and the raté also recur throughout. Several texts are vehicles for voicing aesthetic and political positions. And many draw closely on contemporary figures, events, and debates for their content. Yet this special issue does not aim to identify a discursive unity so much as to exhibit the variety and richness of the art novel's evolution. It is also concerned to address some of the methodological issues involved in reading this kind of text, including the selectivity of the canon, intertextual connections, and the relationship between fiction and fact. It is hoped it will not only plot some new and unfamiliar material in an area still represented for most by a mere handful of ‘major’ texts, but also bring some of the questions involved by this expanded configuration of the field into sharper focus.
Marc Gotlieb : PEDAGOGICAL DISASTER IN ROMANTIC ART FICTION Stephen Bann : THE STUDIO AS A SCENE OF EMULATION: MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE'S L'ATELIER D'UN PEINTRE Joy Newton : CEZANNE'S LITERARY INCARNATIONS Anna Gruetzner Robins : GEORGE MOORE'S A MODERN LOVER: INTRODUCING THE FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS TO LONDON Peter Read : PIERRE LOUS, RODIN AND APHRODITE: SCULPTURE IN FICTION AND ON THE STAGE, 1895–1914 ÉTAT PRÉSENT : Jane H. M. Taylor : RESEARCH ON THE FRENCH MEDIEVAL LYRIC REVIEWS : Helen J. Swift : Agincourt: A New History Ann Moss : Tous vos gens à latin: le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe–XVIIe siècles) Paul Nelles : Les Échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance Roger Pensom : Structures sonores de l'humanisme en France: de Maurice Scève: ‘Délie, object de la plus haulte vertu’ (Lyon 1544) à Claude Le Jeune, ‘Second livre des Meslanges’ (Paris, 1612) Ian Maclean : Autour de Ramus: le combat Cordelia Bradby : Jean de Léry; ou, l'invention du sauvage — Essai sur l'‘Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Bresil’ Richard Parish : La Conversation intérieure: la méditation en France au XVIIe siècle Henry Phillips : Molière: dramaturge libertin Michael Hawcroft : Jean Racine John Campbell : La Réception de Racine à l'âge classique: de la scène au monument David Maskell : De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France John Renwick : uvres complètes de Montesquieu. Volume VIII. uvres et écrits divers I Haydn Mason : Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom Jennifer Birkett : The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France John Phillips : Les Baisers des Lumières Mark Darlow : Musique et langage chez Rousseau Susanne Kord : From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary Canon 1770–1936 Haydn Mason : Le Siècle des Lumières: bibliographie chronologique William Doyle : The Origins of the French Revolution Margaret MacNamidhe : Letters d'Ingres à Gilibert Emma Wagstaff : Transposing Art into Texts in French Romantic Literature Yann Fremy : Scènes d'aumône: misère et poésie au XIXe siècle Maria Scott : Stendhal's Parallel Lives David Baguley : Leconte de Lisle: entre utopie et république Barbara Wright : Baudelaire's World Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe : Baudelaire's ‘Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives Roger Pensom : Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé Helen Abbott : ‘Le Coup de dés’ de Mallarmé: un recommencement de la poésie Hannah Thompson : Zola: ‘Nana’ Marieke Dubbelboer : Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt John Gaffney : French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation Dee Reynolds : Dance, Desire and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater: Playing Identities Thomas Baldwin : Proust's English Adam Watt : Proust at the Movies Anne Freadman : Colette and the Conquest of Self Gavin Bowd : Pour la défense de la culture: les textes du Congrès international des écrivains. Paris, juin 1935 Christopher Shorley : French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s Jean H. Duffy : Le Chant de l'arabesque: poétique de la répétition dans l'uvre de Claude Simon Mary Orr : Cahiers Claude Simon: no. 1, 2005 Jean H. Duffy : Romans à contraintes Shirley Ann Jordan : A New Generation: Sex, Gender, and Creativity in Contemporary Women's Writing in French • Hybrid Voices, Hybrid Texts: Women's Writing at the Turn of the Millennium Andy Stafford : Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies Tom Conley : The Art of the Project: Projects and Experiments in Modern French Culture Ian James : Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy D. S. Bell : The French Communist Party during the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology Marion Demossier : Redefining the French Republic Rosemary Lloyd : Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture Katherine Astbury : Le Spectacle du secret Sophie Marnette : Nouveaux développements de l'imparfait Maeve Conrick : Identités de genre, identités de classe et insécurité linguistique