{"title":"\"Jeune fille qui ne pleure pas son oiseau mort\": Female Puberty in Stendhal's Lamiel","authors":"Sarah Jones","doi":"10.1353/ncf.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is a close reading of the fausse phthisie ruse in Stendhal's Lamiel. It examines the scene in the 1840 version of the manuscript in which Lamiel and Doctor Sansfin fake the symptoms of tuberculosis using the blood of a dead bird. In the first instance, this article analyses the novel's motif of the dead bird by using Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Jeune fille qui pleure son oiseau mort (1765) and Denis Diderot's Salon de 1765 as intertexts revealing the quasi-incestuous dimension of the fausse phthisie scene. In the second instance, it demonstrates how Lamiel charts the eponymous heroine's physiological progression through puberty via its use of the terms petite and jeune fille. Ultimately, this article argues that Lamiel's personal and sexual freedom is intimately connected to her subversion of both the visual iconography and the medical discourse of the jeune fille.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"50 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46373644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La concision exemplaire de la nouvelle? Réflexions sur l'art du récit bref chez Maupassant","authors":"Hans Färnlöf","doi":"10.1353/ncf.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study shows how Maupassant's aesthetic principles lead him, in certain short stories, to expose thematised and implicit content. The absence of didactic discourse and explicit psychological analysis implies that Maupassant is using not only concision but also amplification and repetition to engage the reader and to make him or her aware of the nature and signification of the issues at stake. On a generic level, the short story is conceived not as a constricted version of the novel, an approach I refer to as a \"nouvellisme,\" but as a configurative and narrative expansion of a crucial moment in a character's experience. The study thus questions the idea that the short story, because of the constraints of brevity, must above all remain concise and present all aspects of its narrative in an economical and abbreviated way in order to transcend the mere story. (In French)","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"135 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66360029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Novel in a Corset: Maupassant, Monsters, and the Short Story","authors":"Sara Phenix","doi":"10.1353/ncf.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study situates Maupassant's short story \"La Mère aux monstres\" in the context of nineteenth-century debates about teratology, fashion, and literary form. I trace the evolution of the corset's social meaning over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as it evolved from a protective (and even remedial) garment to one that came to be associated with female and fetal deformity. The eponymous character of Maupassant's tale exemplifies traits that nineteenth-century dress reformers associated with tight-lacing women: venality, deformity, and corrupt reproductivity. Maupassant's story thus reflects post-war cultural fears about dénatalité and degeneration. The corset also serves as a metaphor for Maupassant's artistic production as a short story writer. As the corset is the compressive creator of beauty and deformity in \"La Mère aux monstres,\" the formal strictures of the short story also create beauty and deformity—Maupassant's literary achievement and the monstrous characters in his story, respectively.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"50 1","pages":"119 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42420946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entretien avec Jacques Tardi","authors":"Seth Whidden, Jacques Tardi","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"230 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43366840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing the \"Universal Republic\": The Paris Commune and French Empire","authors":"Niklas Plaetzer","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article questions celebratory accounts of communard universalism by placing the 1871 Paris Commune within the space of French Empire. A first part analyzes the relation between the 1870 settler colonial revolt of the Algiers Commune (Commune d'Alger) and the 1871 Mokrani uprising against French rule in Algeria. While the Commune d'Alger predated the Paris Commune and must be understood in the specific context of settler colonialism in North Africa, the case of Alexandre Lambert, Algiers delegate to the Paris Commune, sheds light on the colonial ambiguities of republican universalism more generally. The article suggests that universalist discourse foreclosed rather than enabled solidarity across struggles, as Lambert could understand the Commune's emancipatory aspirations as entirely compatible with colonial domination. A second part traces the encounters between deported Parisian communards and colonized Kabyles and Kanak on the Île des Pins. These encounters show above all how communard universalism remained bounded by imperial domination and racialized epistemic frames. Yet attending to instances of political translation, they also point to a world-building solidarity across traditions of struggle.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"585 - 603"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48664891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"She Smelled of Petroleum: The Paris Commune in a German Family Magazine","authors":"M. DeNino","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The only treatment of the Paris Commune in the pages of Germany's most popular illustrated weekly, the Gartenlaube, in 1871 was a sympathetic portrayal of a woman executed on the false allegation of being a pétroleuse. This essay introduces the article, \"She Smelled of Petroleum,\" and its accompanying wood engraving, \"Street Execution after the Taking of Paris,\" in the context of German reactions to the Paris Commune, the international circulation of images of the pétroleuse, and the mission of \"family magazines\" like the Gartenlaube. The article and illustration both echoed and responded to the broader international media response to the Commune, and, in keeping with the magazine's domestic perspective, anchored the story of the semaine sanglante in the tragedies experienced by women.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"604 - 621"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45748802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Seeing and Believing: The Ruins of Paris, National Identity and Experiential Photography","authors":"R. Rexer","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines an album of photographs of the ruins of Paris produced after the Commune, entitled Ruines de Paris: 1871. It argues that this album used the devastated landscape of Paris to repair the country's fractured national identity in the wake of the conflict. Ruines de Paris inserted the destroyed city into the iconographical tradition of architectural photography as a form of monument preservation, thereby reclaiming the city for the French patrimony. This attempt to assert control over the city's national meaning through photography, however, rested on a paradox. It required that viewers see not the Paris that actually was depicted in the photographs, but rather, the Paris that had been and could be. The ideological work of Ruines de Paris entailed a fundamental rupture in photography's relationship with reality. In the service of national identity, the photographic ruins of Paris deploy photography not as a referential but as an experiential medium, turning representational photography into abstraction in the process.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"305 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46015225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Performance of Politics during the Siege of Paris","authors":"Colin Foss","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:During the siege of Paris from September 1870 to January 1871, competing interpretations of the political meaning behind the fall of Napoléon III revolved around a series of literary readings on the stages of Parisian theaters. The text being read was Victor Hugo's Les Châtiments, a denunciation of Napoléon III written years before but available for the first time in France during the siege. The spectacular reception of Hugo's poetry shows how revolution could be understood as something to be seen: a public performance that symbolically enacted regime change. However lofty the goals and however fierce the debate, these potentially revolutionary performances nonetheless reveal themselves as attempts to legitimize theatrical institutions when their future was uncertain. In particular, Édouard Thierry of the Comédie-Française co-opted revolutionary rhetoric to ensure the continued relevance of theaters during a period of national crisis.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"427 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42020533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les Marmites de la Commune: Qu'on vive à table comme sur la barricade!","authors":"P. Dubois","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Stemming from the Commune, the social and gustatory experiment of the Marmites exemplifies concepts of solidarity, conviviality and manger-ensemble that provide a model for the contemporary French context of economic inequity. The socially-conscious feminist engagement responsible in establishing the Marmites offers an alternative vision to Versaillais representations of helpless cantinières and threatening pétroleuses. While French food history traditionally equates this bloody period with an obsessive quest for meat in all its forms, we examine instead how, both in practical and philosophical terms, the Marmites aligned with a nascent vegetarian and ecological sensibility as, in the largest sense, vivre-ensemble also includes living together with fellow non-human animals. (In French)","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"499 - 515"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47443352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collective Forgetting: Textbooks and the Paris Commune in the Early Third Republic","authors":"David Shafer","doi":"10.1353/NCF.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/NCF.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:By 1880, the year Jules Ferry produced his law on public education, the Third Republic had become France's longest enduring republic. Given France's unstable political history, republicans focused on public education as the key to stabilizing the republic, instilling republican values in future generations of French citizens, and constructing historical narratives of the Republic as the embodiment of the nation's will. However, the Commune posed a particular challenge to the origins story of the Third Republic. The brief narratives of the Commune in public-school textbooks guardedly sympathized with the conditions that drove the Commune's working-class support, but tempered that with conventional portrayals of working-class manipulability and female emotionality in the political arena. Textbooks reserved their opprobrium for the unnamed Commune leaders, their choice of political referents, their motivations, and the emotional paroxysms they unleashed. Above all, the textbooks chastised the Commune as destructive of national unity.","PeriodicalId":42524,"journal":{"name":"NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES","volume":"49 1","pages":"329 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/NCF.2021.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41771806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}