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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 6): Hameau de la Reine
Next stop was the Hameau de la Reine, a fake peasant village, arranged around a little lake. The hamlet looks like an 18th century architect’s idealized vision of rustic country living. Which is exactly what it is. Richard Mique designed the site for the queen. Most of the houses are merely decorative, much neglected in…
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Paris Research Trip, 2015 (part 5): Versailles visit, Le Petit Trianon
I am fascinated by gardens. And because part of my thesis was on gardens in La nouvelle Héloïse, and in La Faute de l’abbé Mouret, I was pretty much compelled by circumstances to go. Also, a friend of ours who had been living in Paris for two years (and who was scheduled to move back…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 4): Monet at the Orangerie
Here are a few more photos from my trip. This part isn’t strictly research related, but I had never been to the Orangerie before. And it was a pleasure of seeing these wall-sized paintings by Monet, in the space they were originally intended to be displayed. I wanted to post every photo I took there,…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part three)
In the interest of catching up with the backlog of old photographs from my research trip to Paris, here are a few. I had never visited the Passage des Panoramas before, but I had been talking about this and the other Passages frequently with my advisor. I went and took these photos because the day…
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Northeastern MLA 2020 call for Session Proposals (deadline 29 April, 2019)
I thought I would post this here for NeMLA Boston. The deadline for session proposals is 29 April. Follow the link to submit, and good luck! http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/future/2020.html?fbclid=IwAR17dm7Ak2oZpS2ZMJ2wWJjIkFhclZNNHHw_FssmBzAH436dp1CwUYbb20A
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CFP The Pathological Body from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
CALL FOR PAPERS The Pathological Body From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives A one-day symposium at the Institute of Modern Languages (IMLR), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK Friday 20 September 2019 Keynote Speaker: Dr Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast) *…
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 2)
At the BNF. I’ve always found the modern structures a little jarring, even though most of these modern buildings are situated around the edges of the city.
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Research Trip to Paris, 2015
2015 was a busy year. In the summer I got a small research grant to go to the BNF and the Archives Nationales. The archives are becoming more and more restricted, and so direct access to Zola’s dossiers préparatoires and similar materials are limited to scholars doing comparative editions. The day I arrived, however, I…
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The last of Scotland
So this is going to be a big conference year for me. I’ll be giving papers at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association’s annual conference in Kansas City in early March, at NeMLA in late March, and then at the Society of French Studies Annual Conference at the Royal Holloway in early July. Which is all…
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