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• Redefining the engage: intellectual identity in fin de siecle France

  Author:Sarah ShurtsFrom:Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 20127,859 words Essay 1810LThere is a tendency to see the history of intellectual engagement during the Dreyfus Affair as a study of the Dreyfusard Left. However, this approach marginalizes the existence of self-proclaimed intellectuals of the...

• "A nous deux," Balzac: Barres's les deracines, and the ghosts of la Comedie humaine

  Author:Francois ProulxFrom:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring-Summer 20145,570 words Critical essay 1450LThis article examines how Balzacian plots of ambition and ascension are held up as both possibility and impossibility in Maurice Barres's 1897 novel Les Deracines, where they are subject to repeated, often simultaneous...

• Le struggleforlife: contesting Balzac through Darwin in Zola, Bourget, and Barres

  Author:Louise LyleFrom:Nineteenth-Century French Studies (Vol. 36, Issue 3-4) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring-Summer 20086,117 words Article 1770LSocial Darwinist themes feature in late nineteenth-century French ideological fiction from across the political spectrum. This article considers the evolutionary perspectives underpinning the traditionalist,...