Out now with @UnivNebPress, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Spring-Summer 2025 (53.3-4)! . Featuring new work from…. Charlotte Berkerey (@FrenchDeptUCC).Pauline de Tholozany (@clemsonuniv).Cary Hollinshead-Strick (@auparis) and Anne O’Neil-Henry (@georgetown).

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

The influence of féerie, which guided the artists’ staging choices, partly explains this silence, but ideological representations were also at play.

It observes that the authors of those revues endeavored to portray and stage some of the century’s most striking phenomena (notably the advent of the #steam engine) while avoiding others (for example, depictions of #coal itself).

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

The final article in our Spring-Summer 2025 showcase is Pauline Noblecourt’s (@unige_en) latest piece:. ‘Fantastical Steam Machines: Fuel and Energy in Nineteenth-Century Parisian revues de fin d’année’ . Out now with @UNPjournals!.

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

In this article, Edgington analyzes Chapman’s poems on trees, forests, and logging alongside selections from Labelle’s writings.

Québec School poet William Chapman (1850–1917) and Antoine Labelle (1833–91), an influential priest known as the “apôtre de la colonisation,” were enthusiastic advocates for #colonization, which aligned with their messianic vision of French-Canadian culture and literature.

As discouraging immigration to the United States became a priority for French-Canadian leaders who feared that population decline would result in a loss of influence and, ultimately, the loss of their unique culture, colonization of the North was presented as a viable alternative.

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

Out now in NCFS Spring-Summer 2025 (@UnivNebPress), Erin E. Edgington’s (@unevadareno) new piece 👇. “Emparons-nous du sol!”: Visions of Québec’s Fin-de-siècle Forests. 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳.

RT @maditweetstoo: In @DixNeufJournal, I wrote about dancer Fanny Elssler's grand North American tour (1840-1842). About her speeches to fa….

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

Texts about urban development in Paris under the Second Empire, read alongside works by #Balzac and #Zola, show that the concept of energy evolved over the course of the century. .

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

Up next in our Spring-Summer 2025 showcase, Édouard Bourdelle’s (Université de Strasbourg) piece:. ‘Dominer la Nature, reproduire la Nature: enjeux de l’énergie à Paris’. (In 🇫🇷).

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