NCFS journal

Noblecourt's article examines the ways in which the nineteenth-century revues de fin d’année dealt with the issue of #energy.

#Wood was an essential #fuel in nineteenth-century #Québec, and #Canada’s dense, old-growth #forests were sites of great potentiality.

#Energy, Bourdelle writes, is an operative paradigm for understanding the evolution of the nineteenth century.

‘The Imperial Energy Economy: Energy, Industrialization, and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Senegal’ In the early 19th c., 🇫🇷 and its overseas territories functioned within an organic economy in which all forms of energy stemmed from solar radiation and🌱photosynthesis.

First introduced in the nineteenth century, gas-lit lamps are seen by many as a symbol of progress, often viewed as material proof of the victory of the #Enlightenment.

This essay situates early Haitian cultural production within #transatlantic histories of #science, #technology, and nascent energy infrastructures now considered constitutive of #modernity.

Nineteenth-century France was powered by a variety of fuels—from coke and coal gas to wood and eventually #petroleum.

Maurice Palluy, director of the Charenton asylum during the July Monarchy, introduced the asylum to the public in Paris, ou Le Livre des cent-et-un. Panoramic literature was particularly concerned with social and cultural categories, and Palluy’s installment is no exception.

“If the nightcap fits . . .”: Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions Berkery's article provides the first in-depth analysis of the nightcap in French cultural productions.

'La relation des horizons : l’Alsace et l’Algérie, par les liens de la défaite (1870–1914)' 🔗on @ProjectMUSE - muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…

Weber's essay discusses how the figure of “the end of the world” is used in one of Mallarmé’s early prose poems, “Le Phénomène futur.”

Scholars have recently prioritized how the suppressed #Paris #Commune haunts the narrative, the characters, and even descriptions of the bloody, dying foods of Les Halles in Zola’s Le Ventre de Paris.

The aim of the present article, Illouz writes, is to examine a few “variations” on Mallarmé’s idea of the “Livre”: not from the point of view of his “rêve” as expressed in his letter to #Verlaine, but through some more concrete examples.

This piece considers the role of unpleasant sound, dissonance, and noise in #Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror. The author presents his writing as dissonance, allegorizing his text as a strange-sounding lyre as he recounts the nefarious adventures of the misanthropic Maldoror

Still relatively overlooked, Johnelle by Alfred Mercier is an intriguing meditation on societal collapse and #resilience.

Kong's essay examines the advertising campaign for Amaryllis du Japon, the signature #fragrance of the perfumery Delettrez at the fin de siècle, as a case study of the homoerotic dynamics of visual culture for middle-class women of the period.

Jean-Nicolas Illouz (@UnivParis8) and Julien Weber (@middlebury) on Mallarmé Allison Deutsch (@BirkbeckUoL) on Claude Lantier Hyoungee Kong (@nyushanghai) on queer japonismes Marion Glaumaud-Carbonnier (Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes) on Alsace and Algeria in 1870