This important contribution to
nineteenth-century French studies deserves a central place on library shelves and graduate reading lists.
He also was a member of numerous editorial boards, including French Forum,
Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Romantisme.
Peripheries of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge.
Ceri Crossley is Professor of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK).
Women Seeking Expression is an important addition to existing literature on
nineteenth-century French studies.
Walton's highly useful account of the relationship between republicanism and women's thought in and around the July Monarchy responds to a rapidly growing field of feminist scholarship in
nineteenth-century French studies, yet identifies a gap which it fills effectively.
Most readers of
Nineteenth-Century French Studies interested Weygand's book would do themselves a fayor by reading the original, Vivre sans voir: les aveugles dans la societe francaise, du Moyen Age au siecle de Louis Braille (Paris: Creaphis 2003).
Following Loic Chotard's untimely death (he would have been 40 if he had lived to see the volume under review), his colleagues marked his contribution to
nineteenth-century French studies by lectures at the Musee d'Orsay, under the title 'Le Romantisme apres 1848', and a colloquium at the Sorbonne (2-3 June 2000) on 'La Vie Romantique'.
McGuire's piece on La Cousine Bette as a two-page article in
Nineteenth-Century French Studies (1981).
This insightful and extraordinarily well-researched book, drawing on literature, history, psychology, and sociology, makes a valuable contribution to eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century French studies as it sheds new fight on amorous mentalites in the crosscurrents of the revolutionary era and traces the origins of an enduring paradigm change.