Beschreibung
Selected from papers given at the first annual conference of the Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes, the nineteen essays in this volume contribute diversely towards a revision and a reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century France. Many adopt interdisciplinary methodologies attentive to the interplay between literature, history, art, popular and high culture, politics and science. The wide-ranging discussion of issues such as identity, alterity, commemoration, cultural history, tensions between centre and margins, mimesis and representation, suggest that no simplistic snapshot of this century is possible. Opening with a section on the modernity of the nineteenth century, the volume continues with sections on cultural transfer, war, readings and re-readings, and concludes with two essays on questions of identity. The critical reappraisals put forward here offer us various insights into directions in which nineteenth-century French studies are heading at the turn of another new century.
Autorenportrait
The Editors: Nigel Harkness, M.A., Ph.D. (Edinburgh) is Lecturer in French at The Queen’s University of Belfast, and has published on French women writers of the nineteenth century.
Paul Rowe, BA, Ph.D. (Birmingham), is Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, and has published on nineteenth-century French cultural history.
Tim Unwin, M.A. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Exeter), is Professor of French at the University of Bristol, and has published on nineteenth-century realist fiction.
Jennifer Yee, Ph.D. (Université de Paris VII), is Lecturer in French at the University of Newcastle, and has published on French colonial fiction of the late nineteenth century.
