...Kathleen Loysen Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Kathleen Laysen "JE SUIS AUTEUR": MME GALIEN AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN'S AUTHORSHIP IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE I n Madame Galien's preface to her Apologie des dames appuyee sur I'histoire, l the author describes...

...Geoffrey Turnovsky Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Geoffrey Turnovsky "AUTHORIAL POVERTY" AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN READERSHIP IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE CASE OF NICOLAS-JOSEPH-FLORENT GILBERT Rebuking Voltaire in a chapter called "Misere des auteurs" from...

...Simon Kemp Copyright © 2014 The Trustees of Columbia University 2014 Simon Kemp STIMULUS AND RESPONSE: BEHAVIORISM, TROPISMS, AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT AND LITERATURE Literary criticism's model of choice for the understanding of fictional minds has been, at least until recent...

...Anna More Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Anna More THINKING WITH THE INQUISITION: HERETICAL SCIENCE AND POPULAR KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MEXICO Digo, que entre los libros de mi uso matemdtico, fil6logos, humanistas y otros diferentes, hay algunos que...

... a particularly acute case of this general evidentiary prob­lem. ­Things may become even more awkward, however, when we turn our attention to the study of friendship in nineteenth-­century France, for ­here again a 2 Friendship in Nineteenth-Century France further specific evidentiary prob­lem awaits us. In one...

...Philippa Lewis Copyright © 2019 The Trustees of Columbia University 2019 Philippa Lewis LES INFIRMES DE LA SOCIABILITÉ: FRIENDSHIP AND HEALTH IN NINETEENTH-­CENTURY FRENCH LIT­ERA­ ­TURE AND MEDICINE Research into the correlation between health and sociability has been making headlines.1...

... of censorship in German-­speaking Eu­rope include Robert Goldstein s 1989 book Po­litic­ al Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-­Century Eu­rope, and Katy Heady s 2009 monograph Lit­er­a­ture and Censorship in Restoration Germany: Repression and Rhet­oric. ­These contributions often emphasize...

...Jelena Todorović Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth-century print circulation of Dante’s Vita Nova (1292–94) and especially on the response in print media to the tension between new critical approaches to text editing, on the one hand, and editors’ dependence on the text’s complex...

...Gemma Tidman Abstract This article explores the women’s interventions in an overlooked eighteenth-century quarrel about how to reform literary teaching in the boys’ collèges . It begins by introducing this quarrel, here called the querelle des collèges , that involved more than 120 actors, just 3...

...Aubrey Gabel aag2188@columbia.edu Alison James , The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2020 . Copyright © 2022 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2022 In The Documentary...

...Karla Mallette Karla Mallette ORIENTALISM AND THE NINETEENTHCENTURY NATIONALIST: MICHELE AMARI, ERNEST RENAN, AND 1848 D uring the nineteenth century, European intellectuals began to overcome the repugnance for the Middle Ages that characterized early modernity. Philologists resurrected the same...

...Suzanne Jill Levine Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Suzanne Jill Levine BORGES: 'THE READER' IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY I gladly accepted Dominique Jullien's invitation last year to edit an homage to Borges on the twentieth anniversary of his death, June 14 1986. I...

... nobility, and apprehensive of the noble identity's increasing instability, late seventeenth-century salon authors used fairy tales to sublimate the present, refashioning in its place an idealized, medieval past, traditionally associated with oral genres and folklore. As such, while the formulaic opening...

...Marta Wilkinson Kathleen Hart . Revolution and Women’s Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France . Amsterdam and New York : Editions Rodopi , 2004 . Pp. 196 . Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 BOOK REVIEWS 111 elements, make his historical characters...

...James Fujitani Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Book Reviews Gary Ferguson and David LaGuardia, Eds. Narrative Worlds: Essays on the Nouvelle in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 2005. Pp. 195. Despite the fact...

...Thomas Pavel Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 Thomas Pavel CROSS-B­ ORDER AUTHORITY AND LOCAL POWER: THE CASE OF THE NINETEENTH-­ CENTURY ROMAN CATHOLIC INDEX One of the most thought-p­ rovoking aspects of the rise of democ­ ratic ideals...

... Seifert. Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in SeventeenthCentury France. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2009. Pp. 340. Manning the Margins is an important book-length study on the meanings and implications of masculinity in seventeenth-century French literature and society...

...Teodolinda Barolini Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 Teodolinda Barolini A QUINTILIAN FOR THE 21sT CENTURY: ON FICTIONAL TRUTH M ichael Riffaterre was known to all of us literature graduate students at Columbia in the 1970s; he had by then generated a buzz...

...Nicholas Paige Erec R. Koch The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France . Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press , 2008 . Pp. 390 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 17° BOOK REVIEWS Erec R. Koch...

...Thomas Wynn Copyright © 2012 The Trustees of Columbia University 2012 Thomas Wynn COLLABORATION AND AUTHORSHIP IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH THEATER T heatrical collaboration is often described in morbid terms in the eighteenth century. In Alexis Piron's Le Facheux Veuvage (1725) the poet Abok...