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1. SDN SOCIETY OF DIX NEUVIEMISTES NEWSLETTER 24 OCTOBER 2012 Dear SDN members The Society celebrated the advent of its tenth annual conference this year with a return to Ireland where in University College Dublin the Society had been inaugurated on 4 July 2001 On this occasion our destination was Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick and our theme The Senses From osmophilia to blindness and hallucinations to street cries a rich and diverse array of papers explored every one of our five or is it six senses This landmark tenth conference also provided a moment to reflect on how the Society has grown and developed since its inauguration as well as the occasion to renew its original commitments to the promotion of research to the postgraduate community and to fostering links with related societies in the UK France and USA You can read a report of the conference and see some snapshots on pp 5 6 of this Newsletter The biennial SDN Postgraduate Conference was held at King s College London in September on the theme of Change and Exchange Organised by SDN Postgraduate Representative Ewa Szypula King s College London the day proved a highly sociable and intellectually stimulating event bringing together postgraduate speakers from across Europe and from the USA A report of the event can be read on pp 7 8 This year saw further changes to the SDN Executive Committee Membership Secretary Bradley Stephens Un2. p e m D ae li be es on ls re Zied ag oils Se a aed be P Volume 17 1 2013 Poetry Performance Music Guest edited by Helen Abbott with Katharine Ellis Editorial Poetry Performance Music in nineteenth century France HELEN ABBOTT Gautier s Spain and Falla s France voice and modes of performance in S guidille CHRIS COLLINS Engendering Performance in Les Fleurs du Mal ROSEMARY LLOYD Baudelaire s Le Jet d eau and the politics of performance HELEN ABBOTT Verlaine Debussy la mise en sons de Spleen MYLENE DUBIAU FEUILLERAC Du po me a la partition et la performance l exemple de Clair de lune et de ses mises en musique au tournant des XIX et XX s MICHEL GRIBENSKI Performing the Ineffable Poem Gesture and Performance in Debussy s Eventail JOSEPH ACQUISTO 14 FORTHCOMING EVENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS LES FEMMES AUTEURS ET L ARGENT 1750 1914 22 et 23 Mars 2013 a l Universit Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 Organis par Alexandre P raud Bordeaux 3 et Martine Reid Lille 3 Tenu l IUFM de Bordeaux au printemps 2011 le colloque consacr la figure du bas bleu entre 1848 et 1870 a t l occasion d un constat Si la question du pouvoir et des strat gies qu elle peut induire n est pas ignor e des travaux portant sur les femmes auteurs et la litt rature f minine la question de l argent en revanche reste trangement
3. and which now tend to be discreetly shaded out Why have the last two decades seen so few English language studies of Stendhal and if Anglophone students are less exposed to Stendhal than in the past what exactly are they missing One page article proposals in English or French accompanied by a short biography should be addressed to Francesco Manzini francesco manzini oriel ox ac uk and Maria Scott maria scott nuigalway ie before 31 January 2013 Full articles max 6000 words of selected proposals will be required by 31 December 2013 at the latest The special issue of Dix Neuf will be published in early 2015 20 APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS POUR UN NUMERO SPECIAL DE LA REVUE DIX NEUF Dossier th matique Stendhal au XXT si cle Num ro dirig par Francesco Manzini Universit d Oxford et Maria Scott Universit nationale d Irlande Galway En 1804 Stendhal pr sagea qu un jour il crirait un livre qui ne plairait qu lui et qui ne serait appr ci qu en Pan 2000 Mais ce qu il n avait pas pr vu c est l ampleur que prendrait cette appr ciation Le nouveau mill naire a d j vu para tre plus de soixante dix monographies cinq concordances bien plus de cinquante ditions de ses uvres dont beaucoup usage p dagogique de tr s nombreux recueils d articles et guides critiques et m me un dictionnaire stendhalien Deux revues stendhaliennes HB et L Ann e stendhalienne assurent la parution r
4. t du spectacle etc L tude de la fiction politique permet d analyser les modalit s de la conscience historique li es aux conditions politiques sociales et esth tiques de son criture de sa diffusion et de sa r ception Elle s efforce d interroger le partage du sensible li aux conditions d exercice de la d mocratie Elle d rive du lexique th orique mobilis son profit autant voire plus que du contenu th matique envisag Elle s attache aux formes narratives les plus lusives et fuyantes pr cis ment parce que ce sont celles de la politique m me CRIRE L ID AL LA RECHERCHE DE GEORGE SAND Colloque George Sand l Universit catholique de Louvain Louvain la Neuve Belgique les 20 22 juin 2013 Ce colloque sera le 19e colloque international George Sand soutenu par la George Sand Association tats Unis Organisation Damien Zanone Professeur l Universit catholique de Louvain Comit scientifique Laurence Brogniez Universit Libre de Bruxelles Isabelle Naginski Tufts University Boston Christine Plant Universit Lyon 2 David Powell Hofstra University New York Martine Reid Universit Lille 3 Damien Zanone Universit catholique de Louvain Contact damien zanone uclouvain be 18 Pai besoin d id al cette confidence que George Sand nonce comme une profession de foi dans Histoire de ma vie peut servir de fil conducteur pour penser l ensemb
5. Acts of the Colloquium in addition to suggesting other possibilities for publication PROPOSALS for papers in the form of a short description 300 500 words should be sent to 2013zola gmail com no later than 30 November 2012 Notification of provisional acceptance together with editorial guidelines will be sent to speakers by 31 January 2013 Completed papers should be submitted to the editorial committee by 31 December 2013 publication of selected papers is envisaged for November 2014 The address for all communications regarding the Colloquium is 2013zola gmail com BALZAC ET LA MODERNITE 4 et 5 avril 2013 l Institut Sup rieur des Sciences Humaines de Tunis Responsables Gleya Maatallah et Jos Luis Diaz Veuillez envoyer vos propositions 300 mots avec une br ve notice biobibliographique gleyaksira yahoo fr et joseluisdiaz free fr Pri re d indiquer sur le m me document votre courrier lectronique et votre universit ou votre institut de rattachement 22 Date limite 15 novembre 2012 Bien avant Baudelaire et son Peintre de la vie moderne 1863 la modernit est une notion phare que Balzac invente d s le d but des ann es 20 premi re occurtence sous sa plume dans un article de 1822 A la fois nouvelle dimension du v cu et cat gorie esth tique essentielle d s Papr s 1830 elle incite prendre acte d un nouveau mode de vie et de pens e en rupture avec le poids des traditions
6. Officer Peterhouse University of Cambridge cew47 cam ac uk CONTENTS SDN 2013 Conference Call for Papers 2012 SDN Conference Report SDN Postgraduate Conference Report Postgraduate News XIX Journal News Forthcoming Events Announcements Calls for Papers and Articles Recent Titles Heaven and Hell ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 8 10 APRIL 2013 PLENARIES Catherine Nesci UC Santa Barbara Susan Harrow University of Bristol Alain Pag s Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 We invite proposals for papers treating aspects of the conference theme in relation to nineteenth century French and Francophone culture history and art history Suggested topics include but are not limited to Underworlds Ecstasy and or torment Katabatic journeys Salvation and or damnation Utopias dystopias Heavenly hellish sounds or sights Transformations of epic The afterlife Sublime and grotesque Spiritualism Saints souls ghosts and angels Apocalyptic visions Devils and demons Les paradis artificiels The satanic Rise and fall The Last Judgement Proposals for individual papers or for panels should be addressed by email by 30 November 2012 to Dr Fiona Cox SDN Conference Organiser at the following address sdn proposals yahoo co uk please indicate your audio visual requirements Le Paradis et L Enfer XI COLLOQUE ANNUEL UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 8 10 AVRIL 2013 INVITES D HONNEUR Catherine Nes
7. PETER Arf as Music Music as Poetry Poetry as Art From Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond Farnham Ashgate 2011 viii 180 pp DENIER RENEE Count Stendhal Henri Beyle et l Angleterre Paris Editions Philippe Rey 2012 206 pp DIAZ JOSE LUIS L Homme et l uvre Paris Presses universitaires de France 2011 248 pp DROUET GUILLAUME Marier les destins une ethnocritique des Mis rables Nancy Presses universitaires de Nancy 2011 306 pp DUBBELBOER MARIEKE The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs du P re Ubu Oxford Legenda 2012 x 142 pp DUPART DOMINIQUE Lamartine le lyrique Patis La Documentation fran aise Assembl e nationale 2011 102 pp EVANS DAVID and KATE GRIFFITHS eds Institutions and Power in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture Amsterdam Rodopi 2011 322 pp 25 Flaubert thique et esth thique Sous la direction de ANNE HERSCHBERG PIERROT La Philosophie hors de soi Saint Denis Presses universitaires de Vincennes 2012 240 PP FLAUBERT GUSTAVE Madame Bovary reproduction au trait de l original de 1857 annot par Gustave Flaubert Postface d Yvan Leclerc Geneva Droz 2011 518 pp GAUTIER THEOPHILE Histoire du Romantisme suivi de Quarante portraits romantiques Pr face d Adrien Goetz Paris Gallimard 2011 656 pp GODDARD LINDA Aesthetic Rivalries Word and Image in France 1880 1926 Oxford Peter Lang 2012 xii 27
8. celui qu elles gagnent comme celui dont elles peuvent disposer comme h riti res pouses propri taires etc et les repr sentations qu elles donnent dans leurs productions rapport l argent de leurs h ro nes identification d une subjectivit f minine l argent statut conseils qu elles peuvent donner dans le cadre de manuels d ducation ou d conomie domestique par exemple pour en gagner en 15 pargner en d penser Afin d assurer notre enqu te une certaine coh rence nous avons fait choix d une p riode qui constitue comme un tr s long XIXe si cle avec ses pr ambules dans le cadre de l Ancien R gime les effets de la fracture r volutionnaire et ses prolongements jusqu la premi re guerre mondiale LOCO MOTION California State University Fresno 7 9 March 2013 Nineteenth Century Studies Association 34 annual conference The long nineteenth century set the world on the move Travel became increasingly important for business and pleasure for war and peace At the same time new forms of moving people arose the balloon ships undergrounds funiculars the railroads Each carried riders to great distances different locales and novel pursuits But motion wasn t purely spatial new movements arose as well sweeping the inhabitants of the period into fresh vistas of thought and endeavor We seek papers and panels that capture the sense of movement at work and at play during the long nine
9. 5 pp GREEN ANNE Changing France Literature and Material Culture in the Second Empire London Anthem Press 2011 208 pp GRENAUDIER KLIJN FRANCE MUELSCH ELISABETH CHRISTINE and JEAN ANDERSON crire les hommes personnages masculins et masculinit dans les uvres des crivaines de la Belle Epoque Saint Denis Presses universitaires de Vincennes 2012 312 pp GROSSMAN KATHRYN M The Later Novels of Victor Hugo Variations on the Politics and Poetics of Transcendence Oxford Oxford University Press 2012 304 pp HARROW SUSAN and ANDREW WATTS eds Mapping Memory in Nineteenth Century French Literature and Culture Amsterdam Rodopi 2012 331 pp HIGGINS JENNIFER English Responses to French Poetry 1880 1940 Translation and Mediation Oxford Legenda 2011 x 156 pp JOHNSTON MARLO Guy de Maupassant Paris Fayard 2012 368 pp LECUYER SYLVIE La G n alogie fantastique de G rard Nerval transcription et commentaire du manuscrit autographe Namur Presses universitaires de Namur 2011 126 pp MANSKER ANDREA Sex Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2012 xii 310 pp MANZINI FRANCESCO The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos Frenetic Catholicism in Crisis Delirium and Revolution London Institute of Germanic amp Romance Studies 2011 264 pp MARTONE ERIC ed The Black Musketeer Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World Newcastle Cam
10. College as well as on the travelling aesthetics of flanerie the object of Estelle Murail s paper King s College London Universit Paris VII Denis Diderot Reading and reception were the subject of a third panel which pressed on the transactions changes and exchanges that are fundamental to storytelling In a paper on Narrative Value and Transaction in Le Colonel Chabert Jonathan Paine University of Oxford explored connections between the rise of a commercial bourgeoisie and the changing value of narrative as a commodity of exchange It was with the delicious scent of warm Madeleines that the final session of the afternoon examined rather appropriately the very Proustian topic of memory and intertextuality foregrounding notably in the poetry of Jules Laforgue with papers by Madeleine Guy and Renaud Lejosne Guigon both from the Universit de Poitiers authorial strategies or practices of borrowing and reworking Thanks to the exceptional organisational and baking skills of SDN Postgraduate representative Ewa Szypula speakers and delegates were kept in a state of satiety throughout the day and an evening drinks reception capped off a wonderful day of warm discussions and exchanges of our own Claire White SDN POSTGRADUATE PRIZE The SDN Postgraduate Prize is awarded for the best postgraduate conference paper submitted for the Society s Annual Conference Postgraduates w
11. a For more information http www cahiers nodieristes fr 23 DIXIEME RENCONTRE ANNUELLE DE L ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE D TUDES FRANCOPHONES DU XIX SI CLE 3 5 juin 2013 Congr s des sciences humaines et sociales Universit de Victoria La prochaine rencontre annuelle de l Association canadienne d tudes francophones du XIXe si cle ACEF XIX aura lieu du 3 au 5 juin 2012 l Universit de Victoria dans le cadre du Congr s des sciences humaines et sociales Si vous d sirez proposer un atelier ou une s ance pri re d envoyer votre proposition 250 mots Genevi ve de Viveiros gdevivei uwo ca ou mile Fromet de Rosnay derosna uvic ca avant le 31 octobre 2012 La liste des ateliers retenus et les appels aux communications seront diffus s dans le courant du mois de novembre 24 A SELECTION OF RECENT TITLES ABBOTT HELEN Parisian Intersections Baudelaire s Legacy to Composers Oxford Peter Lang 2012 xiv 215 pp ARMENTEROS CAROLINA The French Idea of History Joseph de Maistre and his Heirs 1794 1854 Ithaca NY Cornell University Press 2011 xiv 362 pp AURAIX JOCHI RE PASCALE Barbey d Aurevilly et l criture formes et signes Caen Lettres modernes Minard 2011 314 pp BALLARD RICHARD A New Dictionary of the French Revolution London I B Tauris 2011 xxvi 422 pp BARA OLIVIER et CHRISTINE PLANTE eds George Sand critique une autorit paradoxale Saint Etienn
12. absente comme si l on vacuait l interrogation sous jacente de la minorit financi re des femmes auteures ou pas et de lassujettissement au pouvoir masculin disposant de son c t du monopole l gitime de la puissance mon taire Il faut pourtant se d partir d un imaginaire masculin qui veut selon les mots de Balzac que les femmes sont sublimes en cela qu elles n entendent rien l argent et partant r cuser l id e re ue selon laquelle les femmes auteurs n auraient jamais parl d argent et n auraient jamais abord ce th me dans leurs uvres Une consultation rapide des uvres de toutes cat gories prouve en effet que la question de l argent est omnipr sente argent du m nage de la charit de la dot du travail gains des prostitu es et des courtisanes des ouvri res et des fermi res comme des diverses activit s de service Un tel constat rejoint d ailleurs des tudes sociologiques faites dans le domaine anglo saxon et qui reconnaissent la femme pour la p riode qui nous int resse un r le cardinal dans la manipulation et dans la gestion des multiples formes que peut prendre largent Ce d ni ne caract rise pas au demeurant la seule question financi re et est symptomatique des formes discursives masculines qui orientent toujours aujourd hui notre lecture comme elles ont contribu tout au long de la p riode moderne dissocier les femmes et l objet mon taire En observant les di
13. also pictorial or musical created for them by acquaintances at the moment of the request I analyze the practice of the album focusing on three types of texts the essays on social customs tudes de m urs that present this practice in its context the fictional texts that include it as an important element of the narration and the albums themselves that I have been able to consult in libraries in France and Spain Going beyond its mere constitution as an aesthetic artifact I examine the album as a historical object that reveals public and private dynamics of these national contexts My approach to the album has led me to understand the functioning of multiple social transactions in nineteenth century France and Spain including gender relationships since it was frequently used as a means of communication in the courting process notions of artistic value through the evaluation of the album itself and of the entries collected in it and ideas of market value considering the value of the album before and after its pages were filled up with contributions In addition the dynamic established through album ownership and the participation of contributors in these coveted books reveals structural aspects of class relationships in these contexts The request for album entries as I have been able to discover became a gesture of communication between individuals who belonged to the same social strata It is astonishing that considering all the
14. analytical possibilities that the study of the album offers it has not been investigated thoroughly by literary scholars in France or Spain Besides analyzing the practice of the album in the specific nineteenth century Spanish and French contexts my dissertation project also offers a transnational approach that makes it a valuable contribution to the field of European studies La Biblioth que imaginaire de Jules Laforgue pratiques de r criture dans Moralit s l gendaires Madeleine Guy Universit de Poitiers madeleine guy univ poitiers fr Jules Laforgue 1860 1887 has built his work on a massive use of intertextuality If his first unpublished poems Le Sanglot de la Terre can often be read as a rewriting of Eduard von Hartmann and Arthur Schopenhauer s philosophical 10 texts it is in the collection of short stories Moralit s l gendaires that the rewriting is the most blatant and elaborate In these six short stories Laforgue doesn t merely write a parody of the original books of which he gives a new version Hamlet Ovid s Metamorphoses Lohengrin Flaubert s Herodias but he combines them with a large number of other texts in what resembles a true intertextual feuilletage Moreover if these combinations always seem very odd to the reader the strangeness the anachronisms and the casual tone of the author hide a much more considered way of making such connections In many cases the intertexts reflec
15. ational Conference in central London with the support of the University of Notre Dame Birkbeck College and the Institut fran ais du Royaume Uni Guests of honour will be M Henri Mitterand and Mme Martine Le Blond Zola The Colloquium will be interdisciplinary and international in range and will include the interface between Great Britain and France in the period 1860 1914 We invite papers on a wide range of topics from the works of specific writers artists and musicians to dramatic theory and practice reception studies and political historical analyses Authors apart from Zola might include for instance Maupassant Huysmans and the Goncourt Brothers Proposals on other writers of the time such as Wilde and Mallarm who engaged with the problems of the representation of reality will also be welcome as will relevant areas of the painting sculpture and photography of that era Contributions may be in French or English and each paper should last for no more than 30 minutes approximately 20 000 characters Papers should be accompanied by a summary of no more than 200 words in English or French English for essays in French French for essays in English The final publication will be in either or both languages depending on the material agreed by the editors The Colloquium will consist of plenary papers groups of short papers and discussion groups The editorial committee hopes to publish a selection of contributions in a volume of
16. away at the Strand Hotel a sumptuous gala dinner awaited delegates From the Panoramic Suite we enjoyed not only a typically convivial atmosphere but also impressive views of the Limerick skyline at dusk Over coffee and dessert acting President Nigel Harkness presented Hannah Scott University of Bristol with the award for the Postgraduate Essay Prize for her paper on Zola and aurality Former SDN President Tim Unwin subsequently concluded the evening with some timely reflections on the Society s successes and development over the past decade as well as the future direction it might take The evening left us all looking ahead not only to those remaining papers to enjoy the following morning but also to next years conference on Heaven and Hell Le paradis et l enfer which will be held at the University of Exeter on 8 10April 2013 Claire White POSTGRADUATE NEWS SDN Postgraduate Conference Change and Exchange King s College London September 2012 id CHANGE amp EXG GE Os OSTORADUSTERONTERE RENE KEYNOTE SPEAKER PROFESSOR ANNE GREEN CHANGING PRANCE CHANGING CLOTHES The Poster The Society s postgraduate study day was held on 15 September this year at King s College London against captivating panoramic views of a sunny city skyline from the top floor of the Strand Campus Thirteen postgraduate students from institutions in the UK France USA Ireland Switzerland and Norway deliv
17. bridge Scholars Publishing 2011 viii 252 pp MCQUEEN ALISON Empress Eug nie and the Arts Politics and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Farnham Ashgate 2011 xx 348 pp MELTZER FRANCOISE Seeing Double Baudelaire s Modernity Chicago University of Chicago Press 2011 x 264 pp METAYER GUILLAUME Anatole France et le nationalisme litt raire scepticisme et tradition Paris Editions du F lin 2011 255 pp MILLER MARY ASHBURN A Natural History of Revolution Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination 1789 1794 Ithaca NY Cornell University Press 2011 xvi 232 pp MORTIMER ARMINE KOTIN For Love or for Money Balzac s Rhetorical Realism Columbus Ohio State University Press 2011 xii 334 pp MUN ALBERT DE et HUBERT LYAUTEY Correspondance 1891 1914 Edit par Philippe Levillain et Gilles Ferragu Paris Soci t de Phistoire de France 2011 xxxiv 286 pp NERVAL GERARD DE Voyages en Europe Edit par Michel Brix et Hisashi Mizuno Paris Editions du Sandre 2011 388 pp PALACIO JEAN DE La D cadence le mot et la chose Essais 4 Paris Les Belles Lettres 2011 236 pp PARISIS BARUBE ODILE La Province antiquaire L invention de l histoire locale en France 1800 1870 Paris Editions du CTHS 2011 464 pp 26 PERAUD ALEXANDRE Le Cr dit dans la po tique balzacienne Paris Classiques Garnier 2012 402 pp POYET THIERRY Maupassant Une litt rature de la pr
18. ci UC Santa Barbara Susan Harrow University of Bristol Alain Pag s Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Nous vous invitons nous faire parvenir vos propositions pour des communications traitant divers aspects du th me du colloque en rapport avec la culture fran aise ou francophone l histoire et l histoire de l art du XIX si cle Vous trouverez ci dessous une liste non exhaustive de sujets possibles Les enfers L extase et le tourment La descente aux enfers Le salut ou la damnation L utopie la dystopie Les apparences et les sons de La transformation de l pop e Penfer du paradis Le sublime le grotesque La vie apr s la mort Les saints et les anges Le spiritisme Les ombres et les mes Les visions de apocalypse Les diables et les d mons Les paradis artificiels Les rites sataniques Gloire et d ch ance Le jugement dernier Les propositions pour des interventions individuelles ou des s ances enti res sont adresser par courriel en anglais ou en fran ais avant le 30 novembre 2012 Madame Fiona Cox SDN Conference Organiser adresse suivante sdn proposals yahoo co uk veuillez galement indiquer quels seront vos besoins audio visuels SDN Conference The Senses Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick 2012 Conference Report Limerick 2012 A warm welcome from the President of Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick Professor Michael Hayes The landmark tent
19. cond Empire Machiavellianism in Zola s Son Excellence Eug ne Rougon Emily Apter Lib ralisme et naturalisme Remarques sur la pens e conomique de Zola partir de Germinal Christophe Reffait Word and Image Against Recuperation The Fictions of Art in L CEwvre Robert Lethbridge Zola colorist abstractionist Susan Harrow Empire and Ethnicity Beyond the Bourse Zola and Empire in L Argent Dorian Bell Zola s Philosemitism From L Argent to V rit Maurice Samuels POETIQUES DU DESCRIPTIF DANS LE ROMAN FRANCAIS DU XIX SIECLE Universit de Nice Sophia Antipolis 23 24 et 25 Mai 2013 Centre Transdisciplinaire d Epist mologie de la Litt rature Comit organisation Alice De Georges M tral Nice Sophia Antipolis Jean Marie Seillan Nice Sophia Antipolis For more information visit http www fabula org actualites poetiques du descriptif dans le roman francais du xixeme siecle_49489 php QU EST CE QUE LA FICTION POLITIQUE XIXE XXIE SIECLES Journ e d tude bilingue organis e par le Groupe phi Rennes 2 et New York University Le vendredi 9 novembre 2012 4 NYU Paris Coordination Emily Apter Emmanuel Bouju 17 Intervenants Margaret Cohen Nicholas White Catherine Coquio David Cunningham Gisele Sapiro Jacques David Ebguy Marc Cr pon Marie Eve Th renty Philippe Roger Cette journ e d tude se donne pour objet de d finir la fiction politiq
20. du XTX si cle Ils ont en commun d incarner dans le cadre fictionnel une forme de beaut trouble et ambivalente m lant s duction et r pulsion fascination et terreur que nous appellerons beaut m dus enne notion emprunt e Mario Praz et qui se d finit par la d couverte de l horreur comme source de plaisir et de beaut En effet c est dans le n gatif savoir lhorrible l inqui tant le terrifiant que na t le beau moderne Cette inqui tante beaut se retrouve chez les personnages f minins que nous avons d sign par l appellation V nus m dus ennes dont l apparence renvoie la mort Nous nous proposons travers un large corpus allant de la p riode romantique Gautier Nerval Nodier M rim e Chateaubriand etc la p riode d cadente Mirbeau Villiers de lIsle Adam Barbey d Aurevilly etc de voir quelles sont les caract ristiques formelles de cette esth tique nouvelle m dus enne A une esth tique de M duse devrait correspondre une po tique de M duse Would You Write Something in My Album The Nineteenth Century Album in France and Spain Jeannette Acevedo Rivera Duke University In my dissertation I study the development of the phenomenon of the album in nineteenth century France and Spain Similar to the contemporary autograph books albums were books with blank pages in which the owner typically a woman collected works of art mainly literary but
21. e Publications de l Universit de Saint Etienne 2011 290 pp BAUDOUIN SEBASTIEN Po tique du paysage dans l uvre de Chateaubriand Paris Garnier 2011 728 pp BERCHET JEAN CLAUDE Chateaubriand Paris Gallimard 2012 1050 pp BERENSON EDWARD VINCENT DUCLERT and CHRISTOPHE PROCHASSON eds The French Republic History Values Debates Ithaca NY Cornell University Press 2011 x 378 pp BERTHIER PHILIPPE Perit cat chisme stendhalien Paris Editions de Fallois 2012 188 PB BERTRAND GILLES et ALAIN GUYOT eds Des passeurs entre science histoire et litt rature contribution l tude de la construction des savoirs 1750 1840 Grenoble ELLUG 2011 236 pp BIELECKI EMMA The Collector in Nineteenth Century French Literature Representation Identity Knowledge Prench Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 32 Oxford Peter Lang 2012 236 pp BORDERIE REGINE Bizarre Bizarrerie de Constant Proust Grenoble ELLUG 2011 252 pp BROTCHE ALASTAIR Afred Jarry A Pataphysical Life Cambridge MA The MIT Press 2011 424 pp CHELEBOURG CHRISTIAN MARTENS DAVID and MYRIAM WATTHEE H ritage filiation transmission configurations litt raires SVII XXT si cles Louvain la Neuve Presses universitaires de Louvain 2011 CRAIUTU AURELIAN A Virtue for Courageous Minds Moderation in French Political Thought 1748 1830 Princeton Princeton University Press 2012 336 pp DAYAN
22. ered papers on a wide variety of topics relating to the conference theme Change and Exchange The President of the Society of Dix Neuvi mistes Professor Anne Green was the keynote speaker opening the conference with a fascinating and highly entertaining talk on fashion under the Second Empire entitled Changing France Changing Clothes With recourse to many humorous examples of social commentary and practical manuals her exploration of the ways in which new fashions could provide a vehicle for social mobility as well as class anxieties amidst the rapid commercial and industrial transformations of the Second Empire provided an energetic way in to further discussion about the importance of such material changes to nineteenth century French culture Throughout the day papers addressed the conference theme under many guises beginning with an attention to the materiality of circulating objects in nineteenth century France not least that literary object of exchange par excellence the album discussed by Jeanette Acevedo Rivera Duke University In a second panel on Crossing borders cultural changes and exchanges were examined with papers on the Arabian intertext of Balzacs Splendeurs et mis res des courtisanes Louissa Taha Abdelghanny Boston College and Questions for Professor Anne Green Discussion over madeleines on Dumas s musketeers trilogy Anissa Bennaili Mary Immaculate
23. et la tyrannie des routines en un monde r volutionn Alors que chez Baudelaire la modernit sera pens e surtout comme une esth tique plastique et litt raire en relation avec le nouveau monde urbain qui doit inviter le peintre de la vie moderne saisir le transitoire Balzac se place d abord face au moderne en historien qui cherche avoir une vision d ensemble des grands changements l uvre conomiques sociaux culturels dans une soci t r volutionn e marqu e par un processus de d mocratisation et de d diff renciation Apr s 1830 comme le si cle des r volutions est aussi celui de la r volution m diatique le rythme acc l r de l actualit imprime de plus en plus sa marque tant sur le v cu des acteurs sociaux sur les nouveaux modes de communication la presse le t l graphe que sur les processus esth tiques qui essayent d en rendre compte Cette volution du moderne affecte tant la production culturelle standardis e que les dispositifs esth tiques plus experts au premier rang desquels le roman balzacien Journaliste et fondateur d organes de presse mais aussi analyste du journalisme collaborateur vedette de la litt rature panoramique Balzac vit et traduit le monde moderne au rythme de l actualit selon diverses longueurs d ondes Mais c est surtout le romancier en Balzac qui cherche rendre compte du nouveau monde contemporain en ses diverses p
24. ff rents genres litt raires qu investissent les femmes il importe ainsi de s interroger sur les repr sentations que les femmes entretiennent l gard de l argent de se demander s il existe un rapport sp cifiquement f minin l argent introject pens ou reconduit comme tel et s il est possible ou pas de mettre en vidence une criture f minine de l argent Historique et socio po tique une telle interrogation n cessite une approche interdisciplinaire Elle ouvre notamment sur des questionnements d ordre politique au sens large la confiscation masculine de l argent r elle et symbolique participe t elle de lali nation f minine psychanalytique la femme poss de t elle l argent phallus comment et pour quels usages ou anthropologique la femme jouit elle d un statut sp cifique dans les changes est elle cantonn e certaines sph res de l change Par del les traductions th matiques et les figures de cet argent f minin la dot le don les gains de toutes sortes il conviendra galement de savoir identifier les repr sentations et les formations discursives l uvre dans les uvres de femmes et analyser leurs traductions po tiques narratologiques r les structures narratives et autres Dans une telle perspective nous souhaiterions voir poser la question des femmes auteurs et de largent dans une double perspective celle du rapport qu elles m mes entretiennent l argent
25. guli re de nouveaux articles sur l auteur souvent issus de congr s ou de journ es d tudes tournant autour de ses uvres La num risation des manuscrits de Stendhal par l Universit Stendhal Grenoble en est d j une tape tr s avanc e proposant ce jour une collection enti rement cherchable de 2 220 pages L Association des Amis de Stendhal se r unit chaque mois Paris et organise des excursions stendhaliennes annuelles Bref Stendhal n a jamais t aussi omnipr sent qu aujourd hui plus de cent soixante dix ans apr s sa mort Dix Neuf invite des propositions d articles concernant le statut et le r le actuels de Stendhal au sein et au del des tudes de litt rature fran aise Quelques pistes non exhaustives pour la r flexion quoi peut on attribuer la popularit durable de l uvre stendhalien quels usages ou abus les ouvrages de Stendhal sont ils soumis par les individus et les institutions Comment expliquer la prolif ration d tudes sur l auteur de nos jours particuli rement en France De quelle mani re la r ception de Pauteur a t elle volu Ses crits sont ils compris autrement la suite des travaux r cents par exemple depuis le travail de num risation Quels aspects de son uvre sont aujourd hui c l br s ou discr tement effac s Pourquoi y a t il eu si peu d tudes anglophones consacr es Stendhal au cours des deux derni res d cennies et si les tud
26. h SDN annual conference was held at Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick from 30 March to 1 April this year Its theme The Senses proved aptly to be a highly stimulating one attracting scholars from Europe various parts of North America the Middle East and Asia Despite a few last minute setbacks namely the very unfortunate and unavoidable absence of the Society s President Anne Green as well as of two of our keynote speakers Richard Stamelman Dartmouth College At the Vin d honneur New Hampshire and Pierre Marc de Biasi Director of the Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes CNRS once underway the conference advanced full steam ahead The opening plenary lecture by Roger Pearson The Queen s College University of Oxford on Poetry and the Sixth Sense got us off to a magnificent start This meditation on the processes and sensuous mysteries of poetic creativity took us on a journey through writers as diverse as Mallarm Chateaubriand Lamartine Baudelaire and Hugo ending most appropriately with a poem by Seamus Heaney which left the audience enraptured and reflective The twenty four panel sessions which followed covered a great variety of topics Alongside author panels on Balzac Flaubert Debussy Zola and Proust papers exploited fully the rhetorical potential of the theme ranging from George Sand s business sense to the Decadent sense of humour Naturally questi
27. hases Empire Restauration monarchie de Juillet La question se pose lui une fois qu il abandonne progressivement apr s 1830 son projet initial d crire une Histoire de France pittoresque Alors s enclenche le processus qui voit cet mule de Walter Scott transf rer sur un pr sent en r volution son projet de roman historique embrassant toute l histoire de France Le roman balzacien va ainsi devenir progressivement une ceuvre monde propre dire le mouvement social qui affecte les diverses sph res de la soci t fran aise st nographier les pulsations multiples d une soci t en crise C est toute l uvre de Balzac en tous ses aspects qui se trouve ainsi plac e sous le faisceau de la modernit Le but de ce colloque est d analyser les divers aspects de la relation complexe et passionn e que Balzac entretient tant avec le monde moderne qu avec les genres et les cat gories intellectuelles et esth tiques propres le penser et le rendre For mote information http www fabula ore actualites balzac et la modernite_52117 php L COSSE DES ROMANTIQUES Journ e d tude du 11 janvier 2013 Dijon Centre Pluridisciplinaire Textes et Cultures de l Universit de Bourgogne EA 4178 Des propositions pour des communications de 30 minutes doivent nous parvenir avant le 30 novembre 2012 l adresse suivante cahiers nodieristes yahoo ft Responsables S bastien Vacelet Georges Zaragoz
28. he Senses Vol 16 2 details of which you can find on p 13 The first issue of 2012 16 1 included a range of articles such as You are Here by Melanie Hawthorne and Baudelaire Daumier and the Reinvention of History Painting by Claire Moran The third issue of 2012 is due out shortly and includes an article on Baudelaire by Damian Catani and Masha Belenky s article Writing the Omnibus in Nineteenth Century Paris A special number on Poetry Performance Music Vol 17 1 guest edited by Helen Abbott with Katharine Ellis is due to appear in March 2013 See page 14 of this Newsletter for a list of contents Following this the 2013 volume will include a range of articles such as Absorption and Theatricality Tableaux of Toil in Balzac s Une double famille by Diana Knight Flaubert s Style and the Idea of Literary Justice by Roger Pearson and De la F te et du th tre Politique du spectacle chez Mme de Sta l et Michelet by Yann Robert Forthcoming special issues are planned on Adaptation in 2014 Guest Editors Kate Griffiths Bradley Stephens Andrew Watts and Stendhal in the Twenty First Century in 2015 guest edited by Maria Scott and Francesco Manzini See pp 20 21 for a Call for Papers for the Stendhal number Maney continues to publish Dix Neuf on behalf of the Society via Ingentaconnect http manev co uk index php journals dix If you would like to enquire about acqui
29. hose papers are accepted for the conference are strongly encouraged to submit their paper for consideration for the Prize Entries are to be received at least two weeks prior to the start of the conference Entries may be written in English or in French and should not exceed 3 000 words The Prize carries an award of 100 and the Prize winner will be announced at the Conference Dinner He or she will also be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for consideration by Dix Neuf the society s peer reviewed journal For further details see the SDN website http www sdn ac uk postgrad html Congratulations again to this year s winner Hannah Scott University of Bristol for her paper Composition for a Choir of Noise Feminine Aurality in Zola s Au Bonheur des Dames DOCTORAL THESES IN PROGRESS The Society is keen to announce PhD research in progress in the Newsletter and on the SDN website so let me take this opportunity to encourage postgraduates to send me cew47 cam ac uk or the Postgraduate Representative Ewa Szypula ewa szypula kcl ac uk their thesis title and abstract 7 LPC V nus m dus enne la femme et la mort dans la litt rature fran aise du XIXe si cle Valery Rion Universit de Neuch tel Les personnages de femmes malades au seuil de la mort les cadavres f minins les personnages de revenantes ou m me les uvres d art qui s animent foisonnent dans la litt rature narrative
30. iants anglophones sont moins expos s Stendhal que par le pass que perdent ils exactement Les propositions d articles d une page maximum en anglais ou en fran ais seront accompagn es d une courte biographie et envoy es avant le 31 janvier 2013 Francesco Manzini francesco manzini oriel ox ac uk et Maria Scott matia scott nuigalway ie Les articles des propositions retenues maximum 6 000 mots seront attendus au plus tard le 31 d cembre 2013 Le num ro sp cial de la revue Dix Neuf para tra d but 2015 ECRIRE LE MARIAGE DES LENDEMAINS DE LA REVOLUTION A LA BELLE POQUE DISCOURS IDEOLOGIES REPRESENTATIONS 3 5 octobre 2013 Lyon et Saint Etienne Organisateurs St phane Gougelmann U de Saint tienne et Francois Kerlou gan U Lyon 2 Avant le 31 octobre 2012 dernier d lai nous vous prions d adresser vos propositions de communication pas plus d une page ainsi que le r sum bref de votre curriculum vitae aux deux adresses suivantes stephane gougelmann univ st etienne fr et francois kerlouegan univ lyon2 fr Le colloque donnera lieu publication apr s d cision d un comit de lecture 21 For more information http lire ish lyon cnrs fr spip php article637 amp lano fr RETHINKING THE REAL FICTION ART AND THEATRE IN THE TIME OF EMILE ZOLA The Emile Zola Society London October 18 19 2013 On October 18 and 19 2013 the Emile Zola Society London will hold an intern
31. iversity of Bristol has been replaced by Steven Wilson University of Leicester whilst Kate Griffiths Cardiff University has stepped down as Resources and Research Officer Greg Kerr Lancaster University has filled the newly created role of Web Officer and has taken on the significant task of redesigning the Society s website more about which below We are delighted to welcome both Steven and Greg to the Committee and we would like to extend our thanks to Bradley and Kate for their hard work and commitment The Limerick Conference was also the first organisational feat of Conference Officer Fiona Cox University of Exeter and she is now busily looking ahead to the next SDN conference which is to be held at her home institution from 8 to 10 April 2013 The theme of the conference will be Heaven and Hell Le Paradis et l Enfer and a Call for Papers can be found in the present issue pp 3 4 We are delighted to reveal that our three plenary speakers will be Catherine Nesci UC Santa Barbara author of La Femme mode d emploi Balzac de la Physiologie du mariage La Com die humaine 1992 and Le Fl neur et les flaneuses Les femmes et la ville l poque romantique 2007 Susan Harrow University of Bristol author of The Material The Real and The Fractured Self Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to R da 2004 and Zola The Body Modern Pressures and Prospects of Representation 2009 and Alain Pag s Unive
32. le de son uvre Suivre ce fil c est r pondre l invitation d un auteur dont l uvre est de part en part travers e par le rapport l id al Le mot est partout nomm comme substantif et comme adjectif mais aussi sous d autres formes comme id aliser id alisation On le rencontre particuli rement d s qu il s agit de formuler en termes abstraits des propositions th oriques d o sa pr sence marqu e dans des ouvrages qui portent plus nettement cette ambition Histoire de ma vie Consuelo Spiridion Le Compagnon du tour de France L autobiographie permet d articuler la notion la premi re personne moi j avais l id al log dans un coin de ma cervelle j ai aper u Pid al divin nous avons le d sir inextinguible du beau id al et la situe ainsi en amont comme en aval de toute cr ation dans un rapport de principe avec la fiction Celle ci est elle un moyen de parler au nom de l id al Les romans semblent con us dans cette perspective certains essaient ouvertement une figuration de l id al travers des personnages principaux hyperboliques ainsi Consuelo dont le destin r pond au v u de son maitre Porpora qui la veut fianc e de Pid al sacr et mais tous cherchent sans doute d une mani re ou d une autre le faire Cette impression trouve sa confirmation par d faut dans un aveu tardif et un peu m lancolique de P pistoli re j ai t
33. ons about aesthetics The Panoramic Suite at the Strand Hotel form and reception loomed large with papers on the Salon psychophysics art criticism the colourist aesthetic and the poetics of perception In turn each one of the senses was fully represented with papers on perfume and osmophilia aesthetic taste and the appetite opera and the Franco Prussian War tactile apparitions and early cinema and science and the eye Of course such a focus was also an invitation to explore the relationships or blurring between these different senses synaesthesia for instance as well as connections between genres and media such as poetry and dance and painting and the novel What resurfaced throughout these sessions were questions about the reliability and the fallibility of the senses Papers on hallucinations sensory disturbances and blindness encouraged us to think about and to problematise our understanding and articulation of the terms of representation inspiration and reception In this year as in others the conference offered numerous occasions for sociability whether over morning coffee in the bright ER The Gala Conference Dinner The View over Dinner Limerick Skyline new halls of Mary Immaculate College or over dinner and traditional Irish music at Fennessy s pub This year s vin d honneur was hosted by the President of Mary Immaculate College Michael Hayes and a short coach trip
34. oujours beaucoup dout de moi m me ne me sentant pas le pouvoir d exprimer mon id al comme je le sens Le colloque invite relire George Sand en tant qu elle est un grand chercheur dont l uvre entier montre qu il est toujours bon de chercher Ces mots qu elle eut pour louer Flaubert m ritent de lui tre retourn s pour caract riser sa propre d marche Quel peut tre Pid al Comment l accomplir Toute page crite par Sand semble une nouvelle tape de recherche dans l blouissement de ce grand mirage For more information visit http etudes romantiques ish lvon cnrs fr wa files Sand Louvain juin2013 pdf THE PARIS FINE ART SALON 1791 1881 A three day conference to be held in the University of Exeter 4 6 September 2013 Conference papers to be delivered in either English or French The Paris Salon dominated French artistic life throughout the nineteenth century Organised until 1881 by the State and held over several months every one or two yeats the Salon was a prominent showcase for the contemporary visual arts and a conspicuous manifestation of French artistic hegemony It afforded artists unrivalled opportunities for presenting their work to a diverse audience attracting a clientele garnering attention in the press and competing for official honours and commissions For the public it was a huge social and cultural event attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Euro
35. ovocation Paris Kim 2011 191 PP ROE DAVID ed Charles Louis Philippe romancier Clermont Ferrand Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal 2012 230 pp SANGSUE DANIEL Fant mes esprits et autres morts vivants Paris Jos Corti 2011 636 PP SCHARF FABIAN mile Zola de utopisme a l utopie 1898 1903 Paris Honor Champion 2011 624 pp SOLAL JEROME ed Joris Karl Huysmans I Figures et fictions du naturalisme Caen Lettres modernes Minard 2011 246 pp STEPHENS BRADLEY Victor Hugo Jean Paul Sartre and the Liability of Liberty Oxford Legenda 2011 x 178 pp THERENTY MARIE EVE ed George Sand journaliste Sainte Etienne Publications de l Universit de Saint Etienne 2011 298 pp THOMPSON C W French Romantic Travel Writing Chateaubriand to Nerval Oxford Oxford University Press 2011 xii 454 pp TOPFFER RODOLPHE Correspondance compl te v 12 ao t 1840 19 novembre 1841 Edit par Jacques Droin Geneva Droz 2011 xvi 348 pp YON JEAN CLAUDE Une histoire du th tre Paris De la R volution la Grande Guerre Paris Editions Aubier 2012 448 pp ZEKIAN STEPHANE L Invention des classiques Paris CNRS ditions 2012 384 pp ZIEGLER ROBERT Satanism Magic and Mysticism in Fin de si cle France Basingstoke Palgrave 2012 240 pp 27
36. pe and beyond This conference provides an opportunity to analyse and reflect upon the role of the Paris Salon as an artistic and cultural event Areas likely to be addressed include its importance for the careers of the exhibiting artists its management by the State the role of the Acad mie des Beaux Arts and its relationship to other exhibition spaces in Paris and the provinces The conference will coincide with the completion of a three year AHRC funded project at the University of Exeter entitled Painting for the Salon The French State Artists and Academy 1830 1852 Its participants Professor James Kearns 19 Principal Investigator Dr Alister Mill Research Fellow and Harriet Griffiths doctoral candidate will each present elements of their research at the beginning of the second day which will be devoted to the period 1830 1852 The first day will be devoted to the period 1791 1830 the third to 1852 1881 http humanities exeter ac uk modernlanguages research conferences paris_salon CALLS FOR PAPERS ARTICLES CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL DIX NEUF Stendhal in the 21 century Guest Editors Francesco Manzini Oriel and University Colleges Oxford and Maria Scott National University of Ireland Galway Stendhal speculated in 1804 that he might one day write a work that would please him alone and that would finally be appreciated in 2000 He could not have predicted the scale of
37. ring an institutional subscription to the journal contact subscriptions maney co uk You can also visit the SDN website for further updates on the journal s current and forthcoming publications http www sdn ac uk dixneuf homepage html The General Editors continue to invite individual submissions and ideas for special numbers Please contact Nick White Emmanuel College University of Cambridge njw16 cam ac uk and Nigel Harkness Queen s University Belfast N Harkness qub ac uk with any publication proposals you might have 12 4 i x K od vs ww oa SY if e Rx Li EY Volume 16 2 July 2012 Rethinking the Fl neur Fl nerie and the Senses Guest Editor Aim e Boutin Introduction AIM E BOUTIN Sensual Re readings Gender Sensibility and the Classes of Fl nerie CATHERINE NESCI Aural Fl nerie AIM E BOUTIN Chronicles of Clumsiness Hyperopic Fl neurs and Myopic Bourgeois in the Streets of Nineteenth Century Paris PAULINE DE THOLOZANY Fl neur Smellscapes in Baudelaire s Spleen de Paris CHERYL LEAH KRUEGER The Fl neur the Tourist the Global Fl neur and Magazine Reading as Fl nerie H HAZEL HAHN The Sensualization of Fl nerie PRISCILLA PARKHURST FERGUSON Fashion and Fractured Fl nerie in Guy de Maupassant s Bel Ami HEIDI BREVIK ZENDER 13 Seherzando 276 Delicat ot b ger Kobe 2 e 5 Rubato Pa a r N queue em _ SS RE p EH is
38. rsit Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 whose many works on Zola and Naturalism include Le Naturalisme 1989 and mile Zola de J accuse au Panth on 2008 It has been another productive year so far for the Society s journal Dix Neuf with a large open number published in March and a special issue on F nerie and the Senses guest edited by Aim e Boutin appearing in July You can read about this and other recent and forthcoming issues on pp 12 14 As ever this Newsletter also contains other Calls for Papers announcements of forthcoming events and recent publications in the field of nineteenth century French studies Last but not least please visit our new look website beautifully redesigned by SDN Web Officer Greg Kerr at www sdn ac uk As well as full details of the Society s journal including updates on forthcoming issues the website now offers a new announcements section in addition to its substantial listing of nineteenth century links so do let Greg know if you have an event or announcement you would like to post in this section We wish you all the best for the coming months and hope to see many of you in Exeter next year In the meantime please visit our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter UK_SDN for more up to date news as well as to post your own announcements And please do contact me with any information that you would like to place in the next issue of the SDN Newsletter Claire White Editor and SDN Publicity
39. t one another and enlighten one another Therefore what guides Laforgue s rewriting seems to be his imagination according to Baudelaire s definition of the word in Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe which is the queen of faculties a faculty that percetves the intimate and secrets links between things the correspondences and analogies Given that he combines in them a large number of books using his imagination Moralit s l gendaires can really be called Laforgue s imaginary library oe Nadia Fartas is a Ph D student at the Ecole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales EHESS Paris The aim of her thesis is to study representations and temporality of change at the last third of the XIXe century France in arts Literature and visual arts Widely she is interested in the issue of temporality in arts Literature visual arts XIXe XXIe and in the links between arts and social sciences history and theory aesthetics and poetics In 2012 2013 at EHESS she will give a lecture on the essay Le Peintre de la vie moderne by Charles Baudelaire PhD supervisors Giovanni Careri EHESS and Bernard Vouilloux Universit Paris Sorbonne 11 News from Dix Neuf the online journal of the Society of Dix Neuvi mistes The Society s journal continues to publish at its usual rhythm of 3 numbers per year The 2012 volume has so far included a substantial special number guest edited by Aim e Boutin on Flanerie and t
40. teenth century 1789 1914 Papers may address the intersections of movement s focus on technologies of motion in isolation or reveal the desires for gain glory greed that set the world on its feet Some suggested topics Gold Rushes Mineral Manias and Speculative Destinations Literature of the Sea Maps and Cartography The Science of Exploration Darwin s Voyages Narratives of Time Travel Travel into Space Jules Verne Arthur Conan Doyle The West as Destination and Concept Celebrity Performance Tours Movement of Goods and Ideas Migration and Relocation Expeditions Concepts of Motion and Stasis New Forms of Creative Motion and Locomotion Moving Pictures Photography Dance Music For mote information visit http arthist net archive 3484 ZOLA SPECIAL NUMBER ROMANIC REVIEW Forthcoming in Romanic Review 103 1 2 2012 Special number on Zola guest edited by Nicholas White CONTENTS Introduction Zola cultural historian avant la lettre Fiction and Journalism Nouveaux contes a Ninon autoportrait de P crivain en militant Corinne Saminadayar Perrin 16 Everyday Ghosts La Cur e in the Shadow of the Commune Jann Matlock Sentimentality and Desire Zola and Freud Spent Energy in Th r se Raquin Claire White The Lost Heroine of Zola s Octave Mouret Novels Nicholas White A Sentimental Affair V rit Andrew Counter Politics and Economics Politics small p Se
41. this appreciation Since the turn of the millennium over seventy monographs five concordances well over fifty editions many pedagogical of his works numerous essay collections and study guides and even a Stendhal dictionary have been published Two Stendhal journals HB and L Anne e stendhalienne ensure a regular supply of new articles on the author often originating in a recent conference or study day centring on his work The digitization of Stendhal s manuscripts at the Universit Stendhal in Grenoble is already at an advanced stage with a fully searchable database of 2220 pages to date The Association des Amis de Stendhal meets every month in Paris and organizes annual Stendhal themed excursions In short Stendhal s presence has never been more pervasive than it is today over one hundred and seventy years after his death Dix Neuf invites article proposals addressing the topic of Stendhal s current status and role within and beyond French studies Issues for consideration might include but are not limited to What makes Stendhal s work enduringly popular To what uses or abuses is it currently put by individuals and institutions What explains the recent proliferation of academic studies of the author particularly in France How has the reception of his work changed and how has recent work on the author including the work of digitization changed our understanding of his writings Which aspects of his work are now celebrated
42. ue au regard de la politique de la litt rature Il s agira de mettre l preuve plusieurs hypoth ses de travail 1 La fiction politique chappe a la th orisation directe par la philosophie politique classique ou par la th orie du politique mais peut tre lue elle m me comme une forme de th orie de la politique au sens o Roberto Mangabeira Unger la d finit comme politique commune et sans raison Elle est utile la d finition d un sujet politique instable ni simple sujet assujetti ni pur sujet fondement 2 La fiction politique transcrit l histoire mais pas sous la forme du roman historique Peut tre parce qu elle saisit l v nement sous sa dimension intemporelle diffuse et entropique Peut tre parce qu elle en saisit l impossibilit de la repr sentation 3 La fiction politique ne rev t pas de forme g n rique particuli re mais emprunte des mod les pragmatiques et narratifs multiples en en variant les champs d application conditions politiques structurelles pop e capitaliste excentricit napol onienne expansion des r gimes autoritaires transitions d mocratiques id ologies Jacobinisme Lib ralisme R publicanisme Fascisme Anarchisme etc micropolitique scandales sp culation manipulation de l information etc thique id aliste ou esth tique du mat rialisme r alisme du Second Empire torrent d mocratique chez Tocqueville ou Ranci re Soci
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