H-France Reviews: Volume 14
January Reviews
Blaise Ducos, Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622): Le Portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grand Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis, et Bourbons. Paris : Faton, 2011. 399 pp. Plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 148€ (cl.) ISBN: 978-2-87844-151-2.
Review by Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 1
Peter McPhee, ed., A Companion to the French Revolution. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. xxiv + 544 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $199.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4443-3564-4.
Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 2
Patrick Neiertz, Voltaire et l’économie politique . Oxford : The Voltaire Foundation, 2012. 288 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1053-3.
Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 3
Philippe Poirrier, ed., La Politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2012. Paris: Comité d’histoire du Ministère de la culture/La Documentation française, 2013. 316 pp. Preface, introduction, bibliography, and index. 15.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-11-009246-5.
Review by David L. Looseley, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 4
Annie K. Smart, Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. xii + 244 pp. works cited and index. $79.00 U.S. (cl.), $39.99 US (pb.) ISBN-13: 978-1611493542; ISBN-13: 978-1611494785.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 5
Françoise Briegel, Négocier la défense. Plaider pour les criminels au siècle des Lumières à Genève. Geneva: Droz, 2013. 392 pp. Figures, notes, appendices, bibliography and index. €36.48 (pb.). ISBN 978-2-600-01618-6.
Review by Jeremy Hayhoe, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 6
Stéphane Genêt, Les espions des lumières: Actions secrètes et espionage militaire sous Louis XV. Paris: Nouveau Monde éditions et Ministère de la Défense, 2013. 511 pp. Annex, bibliography, and index. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-36583-370-7.
Review by Christy Pichichero, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 7
Lorna Burns, Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy. London: Continuum, 2012. xvii + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $110 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4411-1643-7.
Review by Françoise Lionnet, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 8
Jennifer J. Davis, Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650-1830. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. x + 246 pp. Figures, notes, note on currency, bibliography, and index. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0807145335.
Review by Erica J. Peters, Culinary Historians of Northern California.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 9
Guy Rowlands, The Financial Decline of a Great Power: War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV’s France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xviii + 267pp. Explanatory note, glossary, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $125 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-958507-6.
Review by Erik Goldner, California State University, Northridge.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (January 2014), No. 10
February Reviews
Jeremy Gray, Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. xiv + 594 pp. Figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-069115271-4; $35.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 9-78-140084479-1.
Review by Daniel S. Alexander, Drake University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 11
Richard Clay, Iconoclasm in revolutionary Paris. The Transformation of signs.Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012, xvii + 306 pp. Soixante illustrations, bibliography and index. 65£/85€/ $115 (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1054-0.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 12
Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd, eds., Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. x + 188 pp. Index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-85745-729-5; $70.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-85745-730-1.
Review by Kristi McKim, Hendrix College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 13
Margaret-Anne Hutton, French Crime Fiction 1945-2005: Investigating World War II. Surrey and Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2013. 222 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.96 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6869-5.
Review by Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 14
Kiff Bamford, Lyotard and the ‘figural’ in Performance, Art and Writing. London and New York: Continuum, 2012. vii + 213 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4411-6707-1; $37.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1472522443.
Review by Ashley Woodward, University of Dundee.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 15
Christopher Norris, Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative. London and New York: Continuum, 2012. viii + 197 pp. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1441128324; $36.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1472525925.
Review by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College, London, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 16
Valerie L. Garver, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. xix + 310 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.95 US (cl); $28.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0801477881.
Review by Courtney L. Luckhardt, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 17
Joseph Bédier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseut, trans. with intro. by Edward J. Gallagher. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2013. xlix + 159 pp. Short bibliography, glossary, and appendix. $39.95 U.S. (cl), $12.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60384-900-5.
Review by Tracy Adams, University of Auckland.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 18
W. Rand Smith, Enemy Brothers: Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. Tables, bibliography, and index. $75.00 (cl). ISBN 978-164422-1898-7.
Review by Gerd-Rainer Horn, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences
Po).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 19
Lauren R. Clay, Stagestruck, The Business of Theater in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Colonies. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2013. 334 pp. 15 ill., notes, bibliographie des sources primaires et index. $ 50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13 : 978-0-94-5038-9.
Compte-rendu par Solveig Serre, CNRS (ARIAS, CNRS/ENS/Paris 3).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 20
David Allen Harvey, The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences. London, Palgrave, Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History, 2012. 280 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-137-00253-2.
Compte-rendu par Stéphane Van Damme, Sciences Po (Paris).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 21
Gérard Bossuat, La France et la construction de l’unité européenne. De 1919 à nos jours. Paris, Armand Colin, 2012. 279 pp. Cartes, notes, bibliographie et index. 26€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-200-25634-0.
Compte-rendu par Philippe Mioche, Université d’Aix Marseille.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 22
Zrinka Stahuljak, Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. viii + 338 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $67.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0812244472.
Review by Stephen P. McCormick, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 23
Max Silverman, Palimpsestic Memory: The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. vi + 206 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-0-85745-883-4.
Review by Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 24
Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley, French Film in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. viii + 238 pp. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-85745-350-1.
Review by Codruţa Morari, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 25
Claire Lozier, De l’abject au sublime : Bataille, Genet, Beckett. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. 314 pp. Bibliographie. 55.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0724-6.
Review by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 26
Michael Fried, Flaubert’s ‘Gueuloir.’ On ‘Madame Bovary’ and ‘Salammbô.’ New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. ix + 184 pp. Figures, notes, index, and photograph credits. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-18705-2.
Review by Anne Green, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 27
David Wetzel, A Duel of Nations: Germany, France and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870-1871. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. xvi + 310 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-299-29134-1; $9.59 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-299-29133-4.
Review by Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 28
Edward J. Hughes, Proust, Class, and Nation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xv + 298 pp. Abbreviations, introduction, bibliography, and index. $ 99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-19-960986-4.
Review by Ingrid Ilinca, Westminster College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 29
André Dombrowski, Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 310 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-52-027339-7.
Review by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, National Humanities Center.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 30
Sara Harvey, Entre Littérature galante et objet précieux: Etude et édition critique des Divers Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier (1659). Paris: Hermann Editeurs, 2013. x + 545 pp. Figures, graphs, appendices, bibliography, and index. 50€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-8692-5.
Review by Leah Chang, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 31
Dominique Dessertine, Enfance, santé et société: receuil d’articles. Lyon: Équipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation, RESEA, du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, LARHRA, 2013. 373 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and bibliography. 25.00€. (pb.). ISBN 979-10-91592-00-0.
Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 32
Gillian Weiss, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean. Stanford, Cal..: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 389 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-7000-2; $65.00 U.S. (eb: PDF or EPUB). ISBN 978-0-8047-7784-1.
Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 33
Amaleena Damlé and Gill Rye, eds., Women’s Writing in Twenty-First-Century France: Life as Literature. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. xxiv + 290 pp. Contributors, illustrations, notes, works cited, and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2588-9.
Review by Elise Hugueny-Léger, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 34
Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham, trans., The Chanson d’Antioche: An Old French Account of the First Crusade. Crusade Texts in Translation, 22. Farnham, U.K.and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011. x + 428 pp. $124.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0754654896.
Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 35
Noah D. Guynn and Zrinka Stahuljak, eds., Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World. Gallica, general editor, Sarah Kay. Cambridge, U.K. and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2013. xii + 210 pp. Figures and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84384-337-5.
Review by Robert M. Stein, Purchase College, Emeritus.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 36
Jean d’Arras, Mélusine; or, the Noble History of Lusignan. Trans. with introduction and notes, by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. viii + 251 pp. Maps, preface, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-271-05412-4.
Review by Stacey L. Hahn, Oakland University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 37
Glyn S. Burgess and Leslie C. Brook, eds. and trans., Arthurian Archives. French Arthurian Literature V: The Lay of Mantel. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. 169 pp. Introduction, edited text, facing-page translation, notes, appendices, bibliography, proper-name indices. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-84384-338-2.
Review by Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 38
Matthew Potolsky, The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 232 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and acknowledgements. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4449-6; $59.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8122-0733-0.
Review by Jennifer Forrest, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 39
Monique Moser-Verrey, Isabelle de Charrière : salonnière virtuelle. Un itinéraire d’écriture au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, Hermann, collections de la République des Lettres, 2013. 346 p., ill. 45€ (cl). ISBN 978 2 7056 8695 6.
Review by Catriona Seth, Université de Lorraine (Nancy) & Queen’s
University (Belfast).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 40
Mary Franklin-Brown, Reading the World: Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2012, xxii + 433 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $55 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-226-26068-6.
Review by John Sabapathy, University College, London.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 41
Margaret M. McGowan, ed., Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615: A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2012. xiii+307pp. Notes. $124.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1409457521.
Review by Amanda Eurich, Western Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 42
E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken, eds., From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. ix + 269 pp. Figures, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $ 38.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-02232-7.
Review by Virginie Greene, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 43
Stephen Vanderputten, Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 247. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-8014-5171-3.
Review by Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 44
Pim Higginson, The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011, vii + 216 pp. Notes. £65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84631-690-6.
Review by David Platten, University of Leeds, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (February 2014), No. 45
March Reviews
Jonathan Krause, Early Trench Tactics in the French Army. The Second Battle of Artois, May-June 1915. Burlington, VT and Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. xiv + 180 pp. Maps, pictures, notes, bibliography, and index. $124.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781409455004; £65.00. (eb-PDF). ISBN 9781409455011; £65.00. (eb-ePUB). ISBN 9781409474678.
Review by Douglas Porch, Naval Postgraduate School.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 46
Response by Krause, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 47
Albert N. Hamscher, The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. xvii + 535 pp. Map, tables, charts, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61149-374-0.
Review by Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 48
Geraldine Howell, Wartime Fashion, From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945. London: Berg Publishers, 2012. 272 pp. £34.95. (cl). ISBN-10: 0857850717.
Review by Sophie Kurkdjian, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, et
Dominique Veillon, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 49
Martin McQuillan, Deconstruction Without Derrida. London and New York: Continuum Books, 2012. 214 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4411-0794-7.
Review by Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 50
François Caron, Dynamics of Innovation: The Expansion of Technology in Modern Times. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. xvii + 247 pp. Selected bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-85745-723-3.
Review by Jennifer M. Morris, College of Mount St. Joseph.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 51
Brenna Moore, Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944). Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xiii + 293 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-03529-7.
Review by Susan B. Whitney, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 52
Guibert of Nogent, Monodies and On the Relics of Saints: The Autobiography and a Manifesto of a French Monk from the Time of the Crusades. Translated by Joseph McAlhany and Jay Rubenstein, with introduction and notes by Jay Rubenstein. New York: Penguin Books, 2011. xl + 355 pp. Suggestions for further reading, map, notes, and index. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-14-31630-2.
Review by Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 53
Linda Goddard, Aesthetic Rivalries: Word and Image in France, 1880-1926. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2012. xii + 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-879-3.
Review by William J. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 54
Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge, eds., Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Foreword by Wolfgang Palaver. New York and London: Continuum, 2012. xix + 286 pp. Glossary, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4411-9401-5.
Review by Gilles Mongeau, Regis College, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 55
Ellen J. Amster, Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. xiv + 334 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-292-74544-5.
Review by William Gallois, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (March 2014), No. 56
April Reviews
Keri Yousif, Balzac, Grandville, and the Rise of Book Illustration. Surrey, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. 212 pp. Notes, bibliography, 24 black-and-white illustrations, and index. $114.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781409418085.
Review by Anna Sigrídur Arnar, Minnesota State University Moorhead.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 57
Thanh-Vân Ton-That, Proust avant la Recherche: Jeunesse et genèse d’une écriture au tournant du siècle. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. viii + 277 pp. $64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0277-7.
Review by Marion Schmid, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 58
Dan R. Stiver, Ricœur and Theology. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 192 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-05671-3020-4
Christopher Ben Simpson, Deleuze and Theology. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 112 pp. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-5673-6335-0.
Review by Kevin Hart, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 59
Morgan Rooney, The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790-1814: The Struggle for History’s Authority. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2013. viii + 223 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61148-476-2. $84.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-61148-477-9.
Review by Marilyn Morris, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 60
Lorna Milne and Mary Orr, eds., Narratives of French Modernity: Themes, Forms and Metamorphoses. Bern: Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers. 2011. 353 pp. $73.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-3039110513.
Review by Melissa Panek, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 61
Anne A. Latowsky, Emperor of the World: Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800-1229. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 290 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-0-8014-5148-5.
Review by by Janet L. Nelson, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 62
Daniel Sipe, Text, Image, and the Problem with Perfection in Nineteenth-Century France: Utopia and Its Afterlives. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013. 218 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and table of contents. $99.70 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781409447764; £60.00. (eb). ISBN 978140946156.
Review by Laurence M. Porter, Oberlin College Affiliate Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 63
Maria C. Scott, Stendhal’s Less-Loved Heroines. Fiction, Freedom, and the Female. Oxford and New York: Legenda, Research Monographs in French Studies 37, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2013. 131 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-907975-71-4.
Review by Martine Reid, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 64
Emilio Sala, The Sounds of Paris in Verdi’s La traviata. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv + 206 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-00901-1; $60.80 U.S. (eb). Kindle digital file.
Review by Juliana Starr, University of New Orleans.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 65
Felicia McCarren, French Moves: the Cultural Politics of le Hip Hop. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ix + 202 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0199939978.
Review by Julie Townsend, University of Redlands.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 66
Kevin Hart, ed., Jean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 564 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78082325-106-3.
Review by John Panteleimon Manoussakis, College of the Holy Cross and
Australian Catholic University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (April 2014), No. 67
May Reviews
Susan K. Foley and Charles Sowerwine, A Political Romance: Léon Gambetta, Léonie Léon and the Making of the French Republic, 1872-1882. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xvi + 315 pp. Maps, figures, notes, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-20686-1.
Review by Kristen Stromberg Childers, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 68
Colby Dickinson, ed., The Postmodern Saints of France: Refiguring ‘the Holy’ in Contemporary French Philosophy. New York and London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2013. xi + 264 pp (pb). ISBN 978-0-5671-7058-3.
Review by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 69
M-A. Constantine, D. Johnston, eds., Footsteps of Liberty and Revolt. Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. Cardiff: Unversity of Wales Press, 2013. xvi + 330 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £24.99, $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2590-2.
M. Löffler, Welsh Responses to the French Revolution. Press and Public Discourse, 1789-1802. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. xx + 332 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £24.99, $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2489-9.
C. Charnell-White, Welsh Poetry of the French Revolution 1789-1805. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. xxi + 474 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £24.99, $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2528-5.
E. Edwards, English Language Poetry from Wales, 1789-1806. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. xviii + 328 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £24.99, $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2568-1.
Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 70
Alan S. Kahan, Alexis de Tocqueville. Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers. New York: Bloomsburg Academic, 2013. 168 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-1441173270.
Review by Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY—Graduate Center.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 71
David Andress, ed., Experiencing the French Revolution. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2013. SVEC 2013:05. viii + 332 pp. $106.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780729410663 0729410668.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 72
Response by David Andress, University of Portsmouth
Hélène Becquet, Marie-Thérèse de France, l’Orpheline du Temple. Paris: Perrin, 2012. 414 pp. €24 (cl). ISBN: 978-2-262-03244-9.
Review by Ambrogio Caiani, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 73
Raphaèle Fleury, Paul Claudel et les spectacles populaires: le paradoxe du pantin. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012. 877 pp. 48.00€. (pb). ISBN : 978-2-8124-0370-5.
Review by Shelly Cavaness, Central College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 74
Aurélien Lignereux, L’Empire des Français, 1799-1815. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2012. 417 pp. 25.00€. (pb). ISBN 9782021 00832.
Review by Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 75
Edward G. Andrew, Imperial Republics: Revolution, War, and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. xxi + 197 pp. Index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1442643315.
Review by John Shovlin, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 76
Deborah McGrady and Jennifer Bain, eds., A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. xx + 414 pp. Tables, figures, examples, bibliography, and index. €159.00 (hb); $218.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-9004-22581-7.
Review by Jared C. Hartt, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 77
Colum Hourihane, ed., Abraham in Medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Art. Princeton, N.J.: Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. xiv+ 240 pp. 152 color/30 b&w illustrations , index. $35.00 US (pb). ISBN 978-0-9837537-2-8.
Review by Marc Michael Epstein, Vassar College/Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 78
E. Ann Matter and Lesley Smith, eds., From Knowledge to Beatitude: St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Scholars, and Beyond. Essays in Honor of Grover A. Zinn, Jr. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xix + 471 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-268-03528-8.
Review by Eileen Sweeney, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 79
Jeffrey Freedman, Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe: French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. viii + 382 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, and acknowledgments. Online supplements at www.yu.edu/freedman/supplement. $58.39 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-812-24389-7.
Review by Jeremy L. Caradonna, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 80
Kathryn Oliver Mills, Formal Revolution in the Work of Baudelaire and Flaubert. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012. xiii + 185 pp. Notes, bibiliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb.). ISBN 978-1611493948.
Review by Julien Weber, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 81
Françoise Lionnet, Écritures féminines et dialogues critiques: Subjectivité, genre et ironie. Trou d’Eau Douce: L’Atelier d’écriture, 2012. 315 pp. Notes and works cited. $37.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 99903-36-68-7.
Review by Amaleena Damlé, Girton College, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 82
Françoise Lionnet, Le su et l’incertain. Cosmopolitiques créoles de l’océan Indien / The Known and the Uncertain. Creole Cosmopolitics of the Indian Ocean. Trou d’Eau Douce (Île Maurice) : L’Atelier d’écriture, 2012. 320 pp. Notes and bibliography. Rs 800. (pb). ISBN 99903-36-69-5.
Review by Evelyn Kee Mew, Mauritius Institute of Education.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 83
Vincent Debaene, Jean-Louis Jeannelle, Marielle Macé et Michel Murat, dir., L’Histoire littéraire des écrivains. Paris: Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 2013. 367 pp. Preface, bibliography, bio-bibliographies, index nominum, and table of contents. 22.00€. ISBN 978-2-84050-874-8.
Review by Oana Panaïté, Indiana University-Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 84
Cecilia Feilla, The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution. Burlington and Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2013). 274 pp. £58.60 (cl). ISBN: 978-1-4094-1163-5.
Review by Marie-Hélène Huet, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 85
Gilles Feyel, ed., Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution, 1789-1799: La presse départmentale, tome III. Ferney-Voltaire, Centre international d’étude du xviiie siècle, 2013, xi and 475. 220€ (hb). ISBN 978-2-84559-072-4.
Review by Harvey Chisick, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 86
Elizabeth C. Tingle, Purgatory and Piety in Brittany, c. 1480-1720. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2012. 308 pp. $134.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-1409438236.
Review by Megan Armstrong, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 87
Noémie Jouhaud, L’Aventure éditoriale de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012.150 pp. Bibliographie et index des noms. 21 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0367-5.
Review by Philip Stewart, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 88
Rebecca Rogers, A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in Nineteenth-Century Algeria. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xviii + 267 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-8431-3.
Review by Margaret Cook Andersen, University of Tennessee.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (May 2014), No. 89
June Reviews
Verena Andermatt Conley, Spatial Ecologies: Urban Sites, State and World-Space in French Cultural Theory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. 171 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1846317541.
Review by Larry Busbea, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 90
Marc Conesa, D’herbe, de terre et de sang: La Cerdagne du XIVe au XIX siècle. Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2012, 556 pp. Color plates, tables, figures, notes, and indices. €35 (pb). ISBN 978-2-35412-171-6.
Review by Peter Sahlins, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 91
Response by Marc Conesa, Université de Montpellier-3.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 92
Jean-Jacques Courtine, Déchriffrer le corps. Penser avec Foucault. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2011. 166 pp. 19.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84137-275-1.
Review by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 93
Response by Jean-Jacques Courtine, The University of Auckland
Jean-Claude Daumas, ed., L’histoire économique en mouvement, entre héritages et renouvellements. Lille: Septentrion, 2012. 406 pp. 30.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-0376-1; Jean-Claude Daumas, ed., Faire de l’histoire économique aujourd’hui. Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2013. 358 pp. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-36441-042-8.
Review by Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po-Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 94
Camille Robcis, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiv + 301 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-5129-9; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-7877-4.
Review by Richard C. Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 95
Daniel Maximin, ed., The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945) Suzanne Césaire. Translation by Keith L. Walker. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. xxiii + 67 pp. $54.00; US (cl). ISBN 978-0-8195-7088-8. $14.90 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8195-7275-2.
Review by Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 96
Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. vi + 346 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-11472-0; eBook ISBN 0-300-19538-5.
Review by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 97
Ann Kennedy Smith, Painted Poetry: Colour in Baudelaire’s Art Criticism. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2011. 241 pp. Bibliography and index. $51.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-094-0; $51.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-0353-0105-2.
Review by Karen F. Quandt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 98
Les Essif, American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama. Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiii + 341 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-29902-4.
Review by by Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 99
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu, My Thoughts. Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Henry C. Clark. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2012. xxvi + 779 pp. Thematic table, concordance, select bibliography, index. $27.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-86597-824-9; $14.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-86597-825-6.
Review by Rebecca Kingston, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 100
Hannah Thompson, Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford: Legenda, 2013. ix + 157 pp. $89.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-907975-55-4.
Review by Holly Christine Woodson, Seattle University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (June 2014), No. 101
July Reviews
Thomas Kren and Roger S. Wieck, The Visions of
Tondal: From the Library of Margaret of York. Los Angeles:
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 87 pp. $9.99 U.S. (i-book). ISBN
978-1-60606-127-5.
Review by Martha Easton, Seton Hall University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 102
Brian Sudlow, Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914. Manchester University Press, 2011. 264 pp. $81.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0719083112.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 103
Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone, Simone Weil and Theology. London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. 238 + x pages. Notes. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-56753-724-9; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-56745-383-9.
Review by Eric O. Springsted, The Center of Theological Inquiry.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 104
Kathrin Yacavone, Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012. ix + 247 pp. Bibliography and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4411-1808-0.
Review by Kris Belden-Adams, University of Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 105
Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall, eds., Black France/France Noire. The History and Politics of Blackness. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2012. xiv + 344 pages, Notes and Index. $24.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 978-0-8223-5262-4.
Review by Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 106
Antonio Negri, The Winter Is Over. Writings on Transformation Denied, 1989-1995. Los Angeles, Calif.: Semiotext(e), 2013. 264 pp. $16.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58435-121-4.
Review by Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 107
Daniel E. O’Sullivan and Laurie Shepard, ed., Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. 312 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84384-335-1.
Review by Stephen G. Nichols, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 108
Walter E. Rex, Strategies: Timely Reflections on his Art of Comedy. Medieval and Early Modern French Studies 12. Oxford, Bern, and New York: Peter Lang, 2013. Illustrations, notes, Index, and bibliography. xi + 322 pp. $72.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-3-0343-0920-2.
Review by Ronald W. Tobin, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 109
Michael O’Dea, ed., Jean-Jacques Rousseau en 2012. Puisqu’enfin mon nom doit vivre. Oxford. Voltaire Foundation, 2012. 287 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7294-1039-7.
Review by Masano Yamashita, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 110
Hervé Joly, Diriger une grande enterprise au XXe siècle: L’élite industrielle française. Tours: Presses universitaires François Rabelais, 2013. 428 pp. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN 9792-8690-629-86.
Review by Harold James, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 111
Florence Lotterie, Le Genre des Lumières: Femme et philosophe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 336 pp. Bibliography and index of names. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-28124-1025-3.
Review by Jennifer M. Jones, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 112
Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. xii + 342 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-18140-1.
Review by André M. Flèche, Castleton State College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 113
William Doyle, France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. vii + 232 pp. Notes and index. $72.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-78076-444-3; $24.13 (pb). ISBN 978-1-78076-445-0.
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 114
Annie Duprat, Marie-Antoinette, 1755-1793. Images et Visages d'une Reine. Paris: Éditions Autrement, 2013. 260 pp. Figures, Filmographie, Bibliographie, Chronologie, Notes, Index, Table des matières, Bibliographie de l'auteur. € 19.95, $37.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 2746733773.
Review by Sarah Hanley, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 115
Alexandra Cook, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science. SVEC 2012:12. Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation, 2012. xii+436 pp. Chronology, appendices, bibliography, index, 41 black-and-white illustrations, 2 tables. €95/$120 (cl). ISBN 978-0-7294-1055-7.
Review by G. Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 116
Stéphane Gerson, Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2012. xix + 347 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.99 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-312-61368-6.
Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 117
Marc Belissa et Yannick Bosc, Robespierre la fabrication d’un mythe. Ellipses, Paris, 2013, 557 pp. Notes, bibliographie, index, tables. 24,50€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-7298-8369-0.
Review by Sophie Wahnich, CNRS, IIAC-EHESS.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 118
Susan Sidlauskas, Cézanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2009. xii + 302 pp. Color plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-25745-0.
Review by Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 119
Melissa Percival, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xvi + 260 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. $124.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-0137-7.
Review by Jennifer Milam, The University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 120
Emmanuel Bury and Carsten Meiner, eds., La Clarté à l’âge classique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 282 pp. 28.00€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-0813-7.
Review by Emma Gilby, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 121
Deborah M. Hess, Palimpsestes dans la poésie. Roubaud, Du Bouchet, etc…. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2011. 226 pages. 22,50€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-296-55353-8.
Review by Michael Bishop, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 122
Sara E. Johnson, The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xxii + 289 pp. $49.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-520-27112-8.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 123
Hubert Bonin, French Banks and the Greek “Niche Market”: Mid-1880s-1950s. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. 379 pp. Photos, maps, tables, notes, and index. 49.35€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-01700-8.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 124
Ben McCann, Ripping Open the Set: French Film Design, 1930-1939. New York: Peter Lang, 2013. x + 250 pp. Figures, appendix, filmography, bibliography, and index. $68.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03910-311-9.
Review by Alison J. Murray Levine, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (July 2014), No. 125
August Reviews
(For #126 see Review #93 above)Linda Guerry, Le genre de l’immigration et de la naturalisation: L’exemple de Marseille (1918-1940). Lyon: ENS Editions, 2013. 303 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and bibliography. 26.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84788-342-8. ISSN 1258-1135.
Review by Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 127
Didier Guyvarc’h and Yann Lagadec, Les Bretons et la Grande Guerre. Images et histoire, préface d’Alain Croix. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013. 208 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. 45.00€. (hb). ISBN 978-2-7535-2726-3.
Review by Karine Salomé, Centre de recherches en histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 128
James Fowler, ed., New Essays on Diderot. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv + 266 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $101.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-0-521-76956-3. $29.99 (pb) ISBN 978-1-107-64960-6. $81.00 (eb) ISBN 978-1-139-06511-5.
Review by Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 129
Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-Century France, with essays by Charlotte Guichard, Rena M. Hoisington, Elizabeth M. Rudy. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. viii + 231 pp. Color illustrations, works in the exhibition, notes, selected bibliography, index, and photograph credits. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58839-498-9 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), ISBN 978-0-300-19700-6 (Yale University Press).
W. McAllister Johnson, Versified Prints: A Literary and Cultural Phenomenon in Eighteenth-Century France. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xi + 131 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and indices. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4426-4285-0.
Review by Candace Clements, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 130
Ting Chang, Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950. Burlington & London: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. 210 pp. 40 ills. £60 (hb). ISBN 878-1-4094-3776-5.
Review by Christine M.E. Guth, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 131
Myriam Tsimbidy, La Mémoire des lettres : la Lettre dans les Mémoires du XVIIème siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013. 348 pp. Notes, annexes, bibliography, and index. €39.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0902-8.
Review by Denis Lagae-Devoldere, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 132
Todd Porterfield, ed., The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838. Farnham: Ashgate 2011. xvi + 224 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £60 (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6951-5.
Review by Brian Maidment, Liverpool John Moores University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 133
Stephen Bann, Distinguished Images: Prints in the Visual Economy in Nineteenth-Century France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. 276pp. 7 1/2x10 10 color + 95 b/w illus. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780300177275.
Review by Katie S. Hornstein, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 134
Richard Cooper, Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515-65. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013. vii-435 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. £80.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-52652.
Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 135
Pascal Chabot, The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation. Trans. Aliza Krefetz and Graeme Kirkpatrick. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. ix+156 pp. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1780930321.
Review by Mark Hayward, York University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 136
Patricia Leighten, The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xviii + 226 pp. Figures, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-47138-9.
Review by Robyn Roslak, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 137
Rachel Mesch, Having it All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women’s Magazines Invented the Modern Woman. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xii + 241 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-8424-5; 39.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8047-8713-0.
Review by Cheryl A. Morgan, Hamilton College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (August 2014), No. 138
September Reviews
Rosamond Hooper-Hammersley, The Hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour: Patronage, Politics, Art, and the French Enlightenment. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011. xv + 397 pp. 2011. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $110.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978 0 7391 4963 8.
Review by Jennifer Germann, Ithaca College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 139
Charles Walton, ed., Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment. Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xviii + 244 pp. Notes, appendix, list of contributors, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-271-05012-6. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-271-05072-0.
Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 140
Dominique Hölzle, Le Roman libertin au XVIIIe siècle : une esthétique de la séduction. Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2012. vii + 285 pp. Notes, bibliographie et index. 60€ (cl). ISBN 978-0-7294-1045-8.
Review by Jacqueline Chammas, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 141
Agnès Cousson, L’Écriture de soi: Lettres et récits autobiographiques des religieuses de Port-Royal. Angélique et Agnès Arnauld, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnaud d’Andilly, Jacqueline Pascal. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2012. 636 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and appendices. 135.00€ (hb). ISBN: 9782745324047.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawaii Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 142
Tzuchien Tho and Giuseppe Bianco, eds. and trans., Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. l + 165 pp. Appendices and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1441195210.
Review by Tamara Chaplin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 143
Eric Lagenbacher, Bill Niven and Ruth Wittlinger, eds., Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe. New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2012. vi + 248 pp. Index. $75.00/£46.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-85745-577-2.
Review byMarion Demossier, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 144
Maurice Whitehead, English Jesuit Education: Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762-1803. Farnham, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xx + 266 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. £70 UK (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-4882-2.
Review by Ronald A. Binzley, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 145
Pierre Purseigle, Mobilisation, Sacrifice et Citoyenneté: Angleterre-France 1900-1918. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2013. 450 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $38.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-44470-3.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 146
Philip Stewart, Éditer Rousseau: Enjeu d’un corpus (1750-2012). Lyon: ENS Éditions. Institut d’histoire du livre, 2012. 327 pp. Illustrations, tableaux, bibliographie, notes, and index. 28€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84788-343-5.
Review by Christopher Kelly, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 147
Jonathan Ervine, Cinema and the Republic: Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013. x + 196 pp. Notes, filmography, bibliography, and index. $135.00 U.S (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2596-4.
Review by Greg Hainge, University of Queensland.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 148
Chaia Heller, Food, Farms and Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agricultural and Genetically Modified Crops. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. xiii + 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5127-6.
Review by Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 149
Brent Adkins and Paul R. Hinlicky, Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography. London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. viii + 253 pp. Notes. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-14411-8825-0.
Review by Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 150
Michael A. Keller, Dan Edelstein, and John Haeger, French Revolution Digital Archive: A Collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de Frances. < http://frda.stanford.edu/en/about.
Review by David Andress, University of Portsmouth.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 151
Geoffrey Wall, The Enlightened Physician: Achille-Cléophas Flaubert, 1784-1846. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. xvii + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-906165-47-578-1-906165-47-5.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 152
Leslie A. Sprout, The Musical Legacy of Wartime France. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. xxiii + 280 pp. Figures, music examples, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780520275300.
Review by Laura Hamer, Liverpool Hope University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 153
Hubert Bonin and Paul Thomes, eds., Old Paternalism, New Paternalism, Post-Paternalism (19th-21st Centuries). Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2013. 407 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $71.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-033-5.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 154
Christopher Dingle, Messiaen’s Final Works. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 369 pp. 70£ (cl). ISBN-10: 0754606333.
Review by Luke Berryman, Sydney Sussex College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 155
Chris Millington, From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Interwar France. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. xi + 243 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7190-8550-5.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 156
Catherine Gimelli Martin and Hassan Melehy, eds., French Connections in the English Renaissance. Farnham, Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. x + 212 pp. £60 (hb). ISBN 9781409466253.
Review by Gesa Stedman, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (September 2014), No. 157
October Reviews
Barbara L. Kelly, Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939. Woodbridge and Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 2013. x + 257 pp. Illustrations, music examples, footnotes, bibliography, and index. £55.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781843838104.
Review by Laura Hamer, Liverpool Hope University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 158
Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith, eds., The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages. Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures in Northern Europe, vol. 21. Turnhout: Brepols Publishing, 2013. xxiv + 552 pp. col. and b/w illus., separate bibliographies, and index. €120.00 (hb). ISBN 9778-2-503-53212-7.
Review by Diane E. Booton, Independent scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 159
David Garrioch, The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom, 1685-1789. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xii-296 pp. bibliography and index. $95.00. (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-04767-9.
Review by Xavier Marechaux, SUNY--College at Old Westbury.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 160
Nicholas Marty, L’invention de l’eau embouteillée; Qualités, norms et marchés de l’eau en bouteille en Europe, XIX-XX siècles. Brussels and New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2013. 397 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $61.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-3-0352-6359-6.
Review by Patrick Young, University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 161
Gloria Groom, ed., Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Exh. cat. Chicago, Ill.: The Art Institute of Chicago; in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; and New Haven and London: Yale University Press: 2012. (In Paris, the exhibition and its catalogue bore the title Impressionnisme et la mode.) 336 pp. Key dates in fashion and commerce, checklist of the exhibition, appendices (fashion plates and cartes de visite), notes, selected bibliography, index. $65 U.S. (hc). ISBN: 978-0-300-18451-8.
Review by Jane M. Roos, Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 162
Carol Berkin, Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. US $ 27.95. xiii +237 pp. Bibliography, index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-307-59278-1.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 163
Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White, Bergson, Politics, and Religion. Durham, N. Carol. and London: Duke University Press, 2012. ix + 337 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 978-0-8223-5275-4; $94.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-0-8223-5256-3.
Review by Paul Douglass, San Jose State University, California.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 164
Amelia H. Lyons, The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian Families and the French Welfare State during Decolonization. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii + 344 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-8421-4.
Review by Emile Chabal, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 165
Florian Grandena and Cristina Johnston, eds., Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films, in Modern French Identities (Volume 98). Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. xii + 330 pp. Illustrations, notes on contributors, and index. $64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0183-1.
Review by Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 166
Éric Baratay, Bêtes des tranchées: Des vécus oubliés. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2013. 256 pp. Figures, notes, and bibliography. 22.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-371-07436-2.
Review by Chris Pearson, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 167
R. Higham, Two Roads to War. The French and British Air Arms from Versailles to Dunkirk. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2012. xxii + 410 pp. Maps, tables, figures, photographs, notes, bibliography and index. $44.95 U.S.; £28.74. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61251-058-3.
R. Higham, Unflinching Zeal. The Air Battles over France and Britain, May-October 1940. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2012. xxii + 321 pp. Maps, tables, figures, photographs, notes, bibliography and index. $44.95 U.S., £28.74. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61251-111-5.
Review by Andrew F. Knapp, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 168
Ann T. Delehanty, Literary Knowing in Neoclassical France: From Poetics to Aesthetics. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2013. 220 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1611484898.
Review by David Sedley, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 169
Alison Scott-Baumann, Ricoeur and the Negation of Happiness. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. xvi + 184 pp. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-1-78093-636-9.
Review by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 170
Pierre Bourdieu, Picturing Algeria, eds. Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli, with a foreword by Craig Calhoun. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvi + 230 pp. 170 photographs, list of photographs, and notes. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-14842-9; $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-231-14843-6.
Review by Jennifer W. Olmsted, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (October 2014), No. 171
November Reviews
Stephen C. Pinson, Speculating Daguerre: Art and Enterprise in the Work of L.J.M. Daguerre. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 424 pages, 36 color plates, 103 halftones, appendices, bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 9780226669113.
Review by Janet T. Marquardt, Smith College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 172
Carol E. Harrison, Romantic Catholics: France’s Postrevolutionary Generation in Search of a Modern Faith. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. ix + 328 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978-0-8014-5245-1.
Review byJoseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 173
Mario Marret and Chris Marker, directors, À Bientôt, j’espère (Be Seeing You), 39 min. DVD. (SLON 1968/Icarus Films 2003). $298.00 U.S.
Class of Struggle: A Film by the Medvedkin Group 37 min. DVD. (SLON 1969/Icarus Films 2013). $298.00 U.S.
Review by Julian Bourg, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 174
Sophie Corbillé, Paris bourgeoise, Paris bohème: La ruée vers l’est. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2013. 286 pp. Map and bibliography. 21.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-061968-0.
Review by Nicole C. Rudolph, Adelphi University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 175
Francis Poulenc, Francis Poulenc, Articles and Interviews: Notes from the Heart. Collected, introduced and annotated by Nicolas Southon. Translated by Roger Nichols. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. ix + 313pp. Illustrations, musical examples, notes and index. $109.95 U.S. (hbk). ISBN 9781409466222; $109.95 U.S. (ebk-PDF). ISBN 9781409466239; $109.95 U.S. (ebk-ePUB). ISBN 9781409466246..
Review by Christopher Moore, University of Ottawa.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 176
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Sean L. Field, eds, The Sanctity of Louis IX: Early Lives of Saint Louis by Geoffrey of Beaulieu and William of Chartres, trans. Larry F. Field, Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xviii + 197 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 080145137X; $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-7818-9.
Review by Irit Ruth Kleiman, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 177
Elizabeth A. Foster, Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiv + 270 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-804-78380-4.
Review by Kenneth J. Orosz, Buffalo State College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 178
Elizabeth C. Childs, Vanishing Paradise: Art and Exoticism in Colonial Tahiti. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2013. xxiii + 329 pp. Figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-27173-9.
Review by Linda Goddard, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 179
Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives. Trans. Thomas Scott Railton. Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. ix + 130 pp. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-17673-5.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 180
Gavin Keeney, Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. xxxi + 268 pp. $84.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 144384182X.
Review by Jennifer Stob, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 181
Edward Campbell, Music after Deleuze. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. viii + 194 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £55.00 (hb). ISBN 9781441101815; £17.99 Sterling (pb). ISBN 9781441157027.
Review by Helen C. Thomas, Lancaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 182
Mark McKinney, Redrawing French Empire in Comics. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2013. xi + 288 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8142-1220-2; $14.95 U.S. (cd). ISBN 978-0-8142-9321-8.
Review by Jennifer Howell, Illinois State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 183
Edwin C. Hill, Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. x + 178 pp. Illustrations and notes. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4214-1059-3.
Review by Rachel Anne Gillett, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 184
Logan J. Connors, Dramatic Battle in Eighteenth-Century France: Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes, and Polemical Theatre. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012. 284 pp. $120 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0729410471.
Review by Síofra Pierse, UCD Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 185
Stephen Broad, Olivier Messiaen: Journalism 1935-1939. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xiii+ 169 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. $100.95 U.S. ISBN 978-0-7546-0876-9 (hb), 978-1-4094-4477-0 (ebook).
Review by Barbara L. Kelly, Keele University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 186
Bernd Herzogenrath, ed., Time and History in Deleuze and Serres. London/New Delhi/New York/Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2012. xiv + 232 pp. Author index, subject index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4411-6386-8; $44.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4725-0506-4 (pb).
Review by Judith Wambacq, Ghent University (Belgium).
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 187
Robert Zaretsky, A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. 240 pp. $22.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674-72476-1.
Review by Mark Orme, University of Central Lancashire.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 188
Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, directors, Le Joli mai, 145 min. DVD. (Icarus Films, 2013). Institutional: $398.00; Individual: $34.98.
Review by Catherine E. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 189
Garret Joseph Martin, General de Gaulle’s Cold War: Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. x + 272 pp. Acknowledgments, abbreviations, introduction, annexes, endnotes, eight figures, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-78238-015-3.
Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 190
Bonnie Effros, Uncovering the Germanic Past: Merovingian Archaeology in France, 1830-1914. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxiv + 427 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $150.00 U. S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-969671-0.
Review by William J. Diebold, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 191
Loïc Charles, Frédéric Lefebvre, and Christine Théré, eds, Le cercle de Gournay, Savoirs économiques et pratiques administratives en France au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, INED, 2011. 29€ (pb). ISBN 978-2733-210390.
Review by Arnaud Orain, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 192
Barbara Bohac, Jouir partout ainsi qu'il sied. Mallarmé et l'esthétique du quotidien. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2012. xxviii + 663 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. 49€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0392-7.
Review by Virginie Duzer, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 193
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World. Foreword by Maurice Olender. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. x + 129 pp. $22.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-674-07290-9.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Other Face of the Moon. Foreword by Junzo Kawada. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass. and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. xiii + 166 pp. $22.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-674-07292-3.
Review by Staffen Müller-Wille, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 194
Adam Watt, Marcel Proust. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 208 p. Illustrations, notes, and select bibliography. $ 16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-78023-094-8.
Review by François Proulx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (November 2014), No. 195
December Reviews
Therese Dolan, Manet, Wagner, and the Musical Culture of Their Time. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. xii + 271pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. £65.00 (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-4670-5.
Gurminder Kaur Bhogal, Details of Consequence, Ornament, Music and Art in Paris. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 357 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-979505-5.
Review by Charlotte De Mille.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 196
Colette H. Winn, ed., Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011. vii + 431 pp. Works Cited and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60329-090-6..
Review by Julie D. Campbell, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 197
Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier, The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema, 1930-1956. Trans. Peter Graham. Durham, N. C. and London: Duke University Press, 2014. 373 pp. References and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-5547-2; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5561-8.
Review by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 198
Craig Moyes, Furetière’s Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies. London, MHRA, 2013. 168 pp. £40 (hb). ISBN : 978-1-907747-99-1.
Review by Jean-Alexandre Perras, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 199
Laurent Lemarchand, Paris ou Versailles? La monarchie absolue entre deux capitals 1715-1723.Paris: CTHS, 2014. 402 pp. Maps, tables, annexes, bibliography and index. 28 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7355-0797-9.
Review by Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 200
Donna J. Bohanan, Fashion Beyond Versailles: Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2012. x + 154 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8071-4521-0.
Review by by Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 201
Robert Tombs and Emile Chabal, eds., Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. x + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £19.99. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4411-3039-6.
Review by Heather Jones, The London School of Economics and Political Science.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 202
Bertrand Fonck, Le maréchal de Luxembourg et le commandement des armées sous Louis XIV. Seyssel: Editions Champ Vallon, 2014. 646 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-940-6.
Review by Guy Rowlands, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 203
Michael V. Leggiere, Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. 568 pp. $34.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 0806144092.
Review by William R. Nester, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 204
Chrystel Bernat et Frédéric Gabriel dir., Critique du zèle. Fidélités et radicalités confessionnelles, France, XVIe-XVIIe siècle. Paris, Beauchesne, 2013, 308 pp. 44 €. ISBN 978-2-7010-2024-2.
Review by Véronique Ferrer, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 205
Robert Morrissey, The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 272 pp. References, index, illustrations. $45.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-92458-8 (cloth); ISBN 978-0-226-92459-5 (e-book).
Review by Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 206
Lucie Desjardins, dir., Les Figures du monde renversé de la Renaissance aux Lumières: Homage à Louis Van Delft. Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2013. 434 pp. 45.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-8696-3.
Review by Preea Leelah, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 207
Gesa Stedman, Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century France and England. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xii + 293 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $134.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6938-8.
Review by Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 14 (December 2014), No. 208
Hervé Drévillon, L’individu et la guerre: Du chevalier Bayard au soldat inconnu. Paris: Belin, 2013. 320 pp. 25.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-7011-7694-9.