NCFS journal

Nineteenth-Century French Studies (ISSN 0146-7891) is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields.

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Out now with @UnivNebPress, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Spring-Summer 2025 (53.3-4)!

Featuring new work from…

Charlotte Berkerey (@FrenchDeptUCC)
Pauline de Tholozany (@clemsonuniv)
Cary Hollinshead-Strick (@auparis) and Anne O’Neil-Henry (@georgetown)...

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Read here on @ProjectMUSE👇

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The final article in our Spring-Summer 2025 showcase is Pauline Noblecourt’s (@unige_en) latest piece:

‘Fantastical Steam Machines: Fuel and Energy in Nineteenth-Century Parisian revues de fin d’année’

Out now with @UNPjournals!

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Faced with the ambivalence inspired by steam, some revue writers imagined a gallery of machines—at once monstrous, poetic, and fanciful—that captured these contradictions.

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Out now in NCFS Spring-Summer 2025 (@UnivNebPress), Erin E. Edgington’s (@unevadareno) new piece 👇

“Emparons-nous du sol!”: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests

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She underscores the significance of the forest both as a fuel source and a metaphor for French-Canadian society rendered all the more arresting by the failure of the so-called French-Canadian “mission” in North America.

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Up next in our Spring-Summer 2025 showcase, Édouard Bourdelle’s (Université de Strasbourg) piece:

‘Dominer la Nature, reproduire la Nature: enjeux de l’énergie à Paris’

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... moving from a #romantic #ideology to a more technical one and illustrating a relationship with Nature that evolved from mastery to domination.

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Out now with @UNPjournals! Read here on @ProjectMUSE 👇

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We’re back from a short break and excited to be spotlighting the latest from John Cropper (@CofC) in our special section, ‘Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies’, ed. by Cary Hollinshead-Strick (@auparis) and Anne O’Neil-Henry (@georgetown)!

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At the same time, however, African systems of energy use also greased the wheels of French imperial expansion, fueling the very steamships and #railways used to subjugate them.