Tag: france
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Two Friends
Last Friday, Nineteenth Century French Studies shared a wonderful conversation between Dr. Colin Foss and Prof. Nicholas White, about Foss’s new book The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris, 1870–71. During the presentation, Foss briefly mentioned a short story by Guy de Maupassant, “Deux Amis” (1883), set during the siege of Paris.…
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CFP: Paris in the Americas Yesterday and Today (Deadline 30 September)
NeMLA 2020, Boston [Reposted on behalf of my colleague, Dr. Carole Salmon, current President of Northeastern Modern Languages Association.] Inspired by NeMLA’s topic for this year, “Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages and Cultures”- a topic embracing the many facets that define each and every human being across cultures and languages, as well as…
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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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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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