January/Janvier Reviews
Annie Jourdan. La Révolution française. Une histoire à repenser. Paris: Champs, 2021. 658 pp. Notes, references, and index. €12.00. (pb). ISBN 9782080255624; €11.99 (eb). ISBN 9782080266088.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 1.
Réponse d’Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 2
Sally Debra Charnow, Edmond Fleg and Jewish minority culture in twentieth-century France. New York: Routledge, 2021. 250 pp. 15 B/W illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367186142; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0429197208.
Review by Noëmie Duhaut, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 3.
Ruoting Ding, L’Usurpation du pouvoir dans le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle (1636-1696). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 559 pp. Bibliography and index. €75.00. ISBN 9-78-2745355270.
Review by Perry Gethner, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 4.
Natalie Berkman, OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. xiv + 324 pp. Annex, bibliography, and index. $72.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789977806; $72.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789977820.
Review by Warren Motte, University of Colorado Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 5.
Julius Fein, Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. xii + 288 pp. Notes, biography and index. £92.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-781-793622280.
Review by John Bulaitis, Canterbury Christ Church University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 6.
Cyril Francès, dir. Le Politique et le Féminin: Les femmes de pouvoir dans les Mémoires d’Ancien Régime. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 320 pp. Notes, references, and index. €68.00 (hb). ISBN: 9782406097600; €29.00 (pb). ISBN: 9782406097594.
Review by Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 7.
Marine Cellier, Amina Damerji, and Sylvain Loloret, eds. La Fabrique de la race dans la Caraïbe de l’époque moderne à nos jours. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 258 pp. Notes, references, index, bibliography, and resumes. €19.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11493-2.
Review by Tessie P. Liu, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 8.
Christophe Charle, Paris, « capitales » des XIXe siècles. Paris: Seuil, 2021. 651 pp. €14.50. (pb). ISBN 9782757892091.
Compte-rendu par Florence Bourillon, Université Paris-Est Créeil Val de Marne.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 9.
Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, and Christopher Brent Murray, Le modèle et l’invention: Messiaen et la technique de l’emprunt (Lyon: Symétrie, 2017). Illustrations and music. 624 pp. €65.00. (hb). ISBN 9782364850453.
Review by Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music and University of West London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 10.
Boris Bove, Alain Salamagne, and Caroline Zum Kolk, eds., L’Itinérance de la Cour en France et en Europe: Moyen Âge – XIXe siècle, Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021. 414 pp. Bibliography. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-3362-1; €24.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-7574-3373-7.
Review by Scott Miller, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 11.
Carole Primot, Teofilo Folengo en France à la Renaissance. « Entendons ce que dict Merlin Cocagne. » Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 293 pp. €74.00. (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12178-7; €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12177-0.
Compte-rendu par Alice Roullière, St. John’s College (Oxford).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 12.
Pauline Eaton, Mothers Voicing Mothering? The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels and Short Stories of Marie NDiaye. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. 255 pp. Bibliography, index, and series index. $65.85 U.S. (pb) ISBN 9781800792227; $64.90 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800792241.
Review by Judith Still, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 13.
Violaine Heryaud and Bernard Vouilloux, eds. Relire Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 220 pp. Notes and index. €64.00 (hb). ISBN 9782406126409; €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406126393.
Review by Hervé Picherit, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 14.
Anne D. Hedeman, Visual Translation. Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists. Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame Press, 2022. xxiv + 370 pp. 183 color illustrations, 1 table, 5 appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-0268202279; $63.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0268202262; $63.99 U.S. (Web PDF). ISBN 9-78-0268202293.
Review by Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 15.
Sandrine Ferret, La photographie document en action: Expériences et histoires. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. 214 pp. Introduction, website references, bibliography and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753582743.
Review by Jennifer Stob, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 16.
Jessica Priebe, François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France. London: Routledge, 2022. xvi + 254 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $150.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781472435835; $44.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003224730.
Review by Alden R. Gordon, Trinity College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 17.
Review of Meryl Altman, Beauvoir In Time. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020. 580 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Open Access (eb). ISBN 9789004431218; $171.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9789004431201.
Review by Elaine Stavro, Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 18.
Sarah Grant, Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie-Antoinette’s Court: The Princesse de Lamballe. New York: Routledge Press, 2019. xvi + 232 pp. Illustrations, acknowledgments, figures, notes, plates, bibliography, and index. $128.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 97810138480827; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032338927; $39.16 U.S. (eb). ISBN 7781351061827.
Review by Lauren Walter, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 19.
Elisheva Baumgarten, Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780812253580; $50.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780812297522.
Review by Constant J. Mews, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 20.
February/Février Reviews
Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604-1830. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 640 pp. Notes, references, glossary, timeline, and index. $85.00 CAD (cl). ISBN 9780773553149.
Review by Benjamin Steiner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 21.
Nicholas D. Paige, Technologies of the Novel. Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 287 pp. Index, figures, technologies section, and bibliography. $33.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 9781108890861.
Review by Christof Schöch, Universität Trier.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 22.
Alessandro Maras, Apollinaire, les musiciens et la musique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 230 pp. €69.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12352-1; €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12351-4.
Compte-rendu par Laurence Campa, Université Paris Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 23.
Annabel L. Kim, Cacaphonies. The Excremental Canon of French Literature. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $108.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-1517910877; $27.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1517910884.
Review by Mercédès Baillargeon, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 24.
Leo Damrosch, Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. vii + 422 pp. 34 color + 49 b-w illus. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-24828-9.
Review by James H. Johnson, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 25.
Xavier Bourdenet, L’Ecriture de l’Histoire chez Mérimée: L’archive et l’archè. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 752 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. €98.99 (hb). ISBN 9782406128052; €59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406128045.
Review by Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 26.
Adeline Lionetto and Jean-Charles Monferran, eds., Fleurs et jardins de poésie. Les anthologies poétiques au XVIe siècle (domaine français, incursions européennes). Paris: Garnier Classiques, 2021. 403 pp. Notes, references, and index. €78.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406121817; €39.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406121800.
Review by Valerie Worth-Stylianou, Trinity College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 27.
Frédéric Calas, ed., Peau d’âne et peaux de bêtes. Variations et reconfigurations d’un motif dans les mythes, les fables et les contes. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021. 375 pp. General bibliography and index. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782845169791; €16.00 (pdf). ISBN 9782845169807.
Review by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 28.
Antonia Wimbush, Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Notes, references, and index. £95.00. (hb). ISBN 9781800858015.
Review by Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 29.
Guyon, Catherine, Yves Krumenacker, and Bruno Maes, eds. Une piété lotharingienne. Foi publique, foi intériorisée (XIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 357pp. Notes, references, illustrations, figures, and indexes. €73.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406122173; €32.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406122166.
Review by Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 30.
Joy Palacios, Ceremonial Spendor: Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. x + 271 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781512822786; $54.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781512822779.
Review by Eric Nelson, Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 31.
March/Mars Reviews
Jean Goldzink and Florence Chapiro, Le Sang du récit. Essai sur les passions romanesques du XVIIe au XIXe siècles. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2020. 264 pp. €73.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-406-09222-3; €34.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-09221-6.
Compte-rendu par Marco Menin Università degli Studi di Torino.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 32.
Pierre Boulez, Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures. Edited and translated by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall. Preface by Jonathan Goldman; introductory essay “Pierre Boulez, Lecturer” by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xxvi + 662 pp. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780226672595; $23.99 U.S. (pdf/epub). ISBN 9780226672625.
Review by Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 33.
Irving Goh, ed., French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. London: Routledge, 2020. xv + 194 pp. Notes, table, and index. $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367408220; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032087436; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780367809287.
Review by Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 34.
Caroline Labrune, Fictions dramatiques et succession monarchique (1637-1691). Lumière classique 120. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 568 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index nominum. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5543-0.
Review by Suzanne Jones, St. Andrew’s College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 35.
Lise Andries, Bandits, pirates et hors-la-loi au temps des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 248 pp. €68 (hb) 00978-2-406-10990-7, €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-10989-1.
Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 36.
Juan Manuel Ibeas-Altamira, La Pédagogie dans le boudoir. Heurs et malheurs de Félicité de Genlis. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 234 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. €29.00. (eb). ISBN 9782406125365.
Review by Flora Champy, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 37.
Réponse par Juan Manuel Ibeas-Altamira, Universidad del País Vasco.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 38
yasser elhariry, ed., Sounds Senses. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. vii + 312 pp. Notes, figures, references, and index. $143 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781800856882.
Review by Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 39.
Martin Goodman. Bastards at Work: Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. xi + 342 pp. Notes, tables, graphs, photographs and index. $70.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800794740; $67.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800794764.
Review by Anne M. Mulhall, Trinity College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 40.
Anna Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska, éd., Animal(ité). Études dix-neuvièmistes. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 157 pp. $56.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9783631845097; $60.95 U.S. (PDF) 9783631855621; $60.95 U.S. (ePUB). ISBN 9783631855676; $60.95 U.S. (MOBI), ISBN 9783631855683.
Compte-rendu par Sara Buekens, Ghent University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 41.
Robert Payne, Reimagining the family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 2021. vii + 214 pp. Bibliography. $65.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781788747714; $63.95 U.S. (pdf); ISBN 9781788747721; $63.95 U.S. (epub) ISBN 9781788747738; $63.95 U.S. (MOBI) ISBN 9781788747745.
Review by Jessica Garcés Jensen, University of Southern Indiana.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 42.
Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Loin de Moscou. Gérard Singer et l’art engagé, traduit par Erik Veaux. Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020. 187 pp. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7351-2443-5.
Compte-rendu par Gwenn Riou, Aix-Marseille Université.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 43.
Donatien Grau, dir., Pierre Guyotat. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 279 pp. Bibliographie, résumés, et index. €71.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12879-3; €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12878‑6.
Compte-rendu par Juliette Drigny, CY Clergy Paris Université
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 44.
Gaël Rideau, Une société en marche: les processions en France au XVIIIe siècle. Ceyzérieu : Champ Vallon, 2021. 542 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9791026710103.
Review by Taylor Van Doorne, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 45.
Henri Béhar, Essai d’analyse culturelle des textes. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. Index. 252 pp. €29.00. (pb). ISBN 9-78-2406126478; €68.00. (hb). ISBN 9-78-2406126485.
Review by Madeleine Chalmers, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 46.
Jeremy Black, The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War. Lanham, Md. and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. xii + 221 pp. Notes, bibliographie, et index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6369-6; $32.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6370-2; $30.50 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6371-9.
Compte-rendu par Bruno Colson, Université de Namur.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 47.
Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby, eds., ‘Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2021. 341pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1743058275.
Review by Dourinda Outram, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 48.
Robert Weston, A Country Doctor in the French Revolution: Marie-François-Bernardin Ramel. New York: Routledge, 2020. x + 114 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367271893; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032091495; $20.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429295393.
Compte-rendu par Bénédicte Prot, Université de Bâle.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 49.
Gianluca Mori, Athéisme et dissimulation au XVIIe siècle. Guy Patin et le Theophrasticus redivivus. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 414 pp. Avant-propos par Antony McKenna. Tables, notes, bibliographie, et index. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5791-5.
Compte-rendu par Julien Léonard, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 50.
Meredith L. Scott, The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. vii + 186 pp. Bibliography and index. $127.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-51439-3; $127.00 U.S (eb). ISBN 978-90-04-51489-8.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 51.
April/Avril Reviews
Tracy L. Rutler, Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Xxi + 291 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. €65.00. (pb). ISBN 978-1-800-85980-7; €65.00 (eb). ISBN 978-1-800-85797-1.
Review by Jessica Stacey, Freie Universität, Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 52.
Alain Ruscio (dir.), Regards français sur l’Islam des Croisades à l’ère coloniale. Vulaines-sur-Seine: Éditions du Croquant, 2021. 345 pp. €20.00. (pb). ISBN 9782365123167.
Compte-rendu par Alain Messaoudi, Nantes Université.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 53.
Clovis Gladstone, Rousseau et le matérialisme. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 264 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £75.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-1789622027; £65.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-1800345706.
Review by Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 54.
Philippe Meyzie, L’unique et le véritable. Réputation, origine et marchés alimentaires (vers 1680-vers 1830). Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2021. 376 pp. €26.00. (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1020-2.
Compte-rendu par Emmanuelle Charpentier, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 55.
Laura Mason, The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. xi + 304 pp. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300259551.
Compte-rendu par Sophie Wahnich, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 56.
Catriona MacLeod, Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2022. xii + 244 pp. Notes, references, index, and figures. $113.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781789383904; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789386813; $85.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789383928.
Review by Fransiska Louwagie, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 57.
Christina Parker-Flynn, Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. ix + 246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781978825079; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781978825062; $32.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781978825086.
Review by Sarah Keller, University of Massachusetts Boston.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 58.
Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, eds., In Search of Expo 67. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. ix + 230 pp. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780228001140; (French edition: À la recherche d’Expo 67. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. ix + 230 pp. $55.00 CAD. (pb). ISBN 9780228001133).
Review by Peter Sealy, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 59.
Nick Underwood, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. xv + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-025305796.
Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 60.
Pascale Goetschel, Une autre histoire du théâtre: discours de crise et pratiques spectaculaires, France, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020. 413 pp. 27€. (pb). ISBN 9782271121455.
Review by Michelle S. Cheyne, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 61.
Alison James, The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature. Writing with Facts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Bibliography and index. £59.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0198859680.
Review by Andy Stafford, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 62.
Helder Mendes Baiao, Rêves de citoyens. L’utopie républicaine dans la littérature Suisse-romande au XVIIIe siècle. Bern: Peter Lang, 2021. 320pp. $75.15 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1787076488. $74.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1787076501.
Review by Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 63.
Céline Borello, Christophe Regina, Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont (dirs.), Séduire du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Discours, représentations et pratiques. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 336 pp. €72.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-11485-7; €33.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11484-0.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Alexandre Perras, European University Institute, Florence.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 64.
Nicolas Lyon-Caen and Raphaël Morera, À vos poubelles citoyens ! Environnement urbain, salubrité publique et investissement civique (Paris, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). 215 pp. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2020. €22.00. (cl). ISBN 979-10-267-0928-2.
Compte-rendu par Constance Font-Réaulx, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 65.
Elizabeth Benjamin, Existentialist Comics: Bande Dessinée and the Art of Ethics. New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury, 2021. xvi + 216 pp. 1 fig. col., 15 fig. b/w. $63.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800792739; $63.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800792753.
Review by Erin Duncan-O’Neill, University Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 66.
Bianca-Livia Bartoş, Le Thésée d’André Gide: Entre tradition et innovation. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 169 pp. €57.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12719-2; €18.00 (pb); ISBN 978-2-406-12718-5.
Compte-rendu par Patrick Pollard, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 67.
Rémi Dalisson, Au plus près du peuple: Les voyages politiques de Napoléon III. Paris: Vendémiaire, 2022. 331 pp. Carte, tableaux, documents, notes, bibliographie et index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-36358-379-6.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Charles Geslot, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université de Paris-Saclay.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 68.
Keith Reader, Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality. Oxford, U.K.: Legenda, 2021. 252 pp. $115.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-1781888063.
Review by Patrick Bray, University College of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 69.
Richard Verdi, Poussin as a Painter. From Classicism to Abstraction. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 366 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1-789141474.
Review by Henry Keazor, Heidelberg University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 70.
Audrey Evrard, Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022. 298 pp. Halftones, notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. $88.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1786838421.
Review by Joseph Mai, Clemson University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 71.
Iris Moon and Richard Taws, eds. Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. xiv + 261 pp. Figures, plates, notes, and index. $120.00. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1-501348396.
Review by Stephanie O’Rourke, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 72.
May/Mai Reviews
Amelia Rauser, The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300241204.
Compte-rendu par Élise Urbain Ruano, Musée royal de Mariemont.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 73.
Florence Orwat, Le Rire chrétien de La Fontaine. Les Contes et nouvelles en vers. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 441 pp. €68.00. (pb). ISBN 9782745355782.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Lyraud, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 74.
Marie-Pierre Le Hir, French Immigrants and Pioneers and the Making of America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2022. ix + 288 pp. $59.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781476684420.
Compte-rendu par Yves Frenette, Université de Saint-Boniface.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 75.
Tessa Friederike Rosebrock, Kurt Martin et le Musée des Beaux-arts de Strasbourg: Politique des musées et des expositions sous le IIIe Reich et dans l’immédiat après-guerre, trans. Françoise Joly. Paris: Maison des sciences de l’homme/Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, 2019. xxvii + 524 pages. Figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. €30.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7351-2442-8.
Review by Dominique Poulot, IHMC, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 76.
Megan Brown, The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. Notes, references, and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780674251144.
Review by Andrew W. M. Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 77.
Sara Buekens and Julien Defraeye, eds., Animal et Animalité: Stratégies de représentation dans les littératures d’expression française. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 329 pp. Index and bibliography. €74.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406128649; €35.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406128632.
Review by Liam Lewis, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 78.
Jessica L. Fripp, Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2020. xiv +260. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781644532010; $99.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781644532027.
Review by Emma Barker, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 79.
Timothy J. Standring, ed., Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. New Haven: Denver Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2021. vii + 245 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9-78-0300254457.
Review by Alexis Clark, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 80.
François Jacob, Voltaire après la nuit: Paris, Moscou, Genève. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2021. v + 185 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography and index. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782845591509.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [1]
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 81.
Joseph Acquisto, Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 311 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $119.99 (hb). ISBN 9-78-303061013-5; $84.99 (pb). ISBN 9-78-3030610166.
Review by Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 82.
Carolyn J. Eichner, Feminism’s Empire. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. xiv + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-5017-6380-9; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5017-6381-6; $21.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN978-1-5017-6383-0.
Review by Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University Emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 83.
Oana Panaïté, Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. x + 200 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $143.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781802077179.
Review by Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 84.
Marcie Ray, Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester University Press, 2020. xi + 191 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781580469883; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781787449008.
Review by Don Fader, University of Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 85.
Lucy Rayfield, Poetics, Performances and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy. Oxford: Legenda (MHRA), 2022. 228 pp. Notes, references, timeline, and index. ₤85.00 (pb). ISBN 9781781885161.
Review by Corinne Noirot, Virginia Tech.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 86.
Michael Kwass, The Consumer Revolution, 1650-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xi + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780521198707; $25.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780521139595; $25.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781009234399
Review by Pierre Gervais, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 87.
Jérémy Decot and Clare Siviter, eds., Un engagement en vers et contre tous : Servir les révolutions, rejouer leurs mémoires (1789-1848). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2022. 282 pp. Bibliography, notes. 20.00 € (pb.). ISBN 9782845169975; 13.00 € (pdf.). ISBN 978238770176.
Review by Joseph D. Begley, New College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 88.
Thomas Kvist Christiansen, Nous sommes ici pour mourir. L’itinéraire d’Arlette Lévy-Andersen, rescapée d’Auschwitz. Translated and edited by Fabrice Boyer. Clermont-Ferrand : Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021. 248 pp. Photographs, notes, annexes, and bibliography. €35.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2845169999. [Original Edition: Thomas Kvist Christiansen, Vi er her for at dø. Fredericia: Kvist Kommunikation og Billunds Boghandel, 2018.]
Review by Ashley Valanzola, Middle Tennessee State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 89.
June/Juin Reviews
Céline Labrune Badiane, Le pari de l’école: une histoire de l’institution scolaire en Casamance, 1860-1960. Paris: Hémisphères Éditions and Maisonneuve & Larose Nouvelles Éditions, 2022. 384 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and bibliography. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782377011162.
Review by Kelly Duke Bryant, Rowan University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (Jun 2023), No. 90.
Nick Nesbitt, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2022. viii + 274 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780813947082; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780813947099; $28.00 (eb). ISBN 9780813947105
Review by Christopher Bonner, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 91.
Myriam Boucharenc, L’Écrivain et la publicité: Histoire d’une tentation. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2022. 334 pp. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1055-4.
Review by Seth Armus, St. Joseph’s University (Brooklyn, New York).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 92.
Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg, eds., Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. xviii + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $160 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501337963. $36.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781501366925.
Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 93.
Andrew Sobanet and Kylie Sago, eds., Revisioning French Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. vii + 372 pp. Notes and index. ₤83.60 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781789620207; ₤24.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9781802077445; ₤70.40 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781789624366.
Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 94.
Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, eds., The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2021. x + 242 pp. 21 b-w images, bibliography, notes, notes on contributors, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781978809802; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781978809796; $32.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781978809819; $32.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781978809833.
Review by Thibaut Schilt, College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 95.
Erwan Pointeau-Lagadec, Les écrans de fumée. Film et cannabis en France (1969-2002). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021. 298 pp. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-24433-4.
Compte-rendu par Anne Roekens, Université de Namur.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 96.
Olga Smith, Contemporary Photography in France. Between Theory and Practice. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-9462703445. €39.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-9461664891.
Review by Pierre Taminiaux, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 97.