NCFS journal

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)...

Read here on @ProjectMUSE👇 🔗 muse.jhu.edu/article/961626

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 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!

Read here on @ProjectMUSE 🔗 muse.jhu.edu/article/961625

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.

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 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳

Read here on @ProjectMUSE 👇 🔗muse.jhu.edu/article/961624

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

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 🇫🇷)

Out now with @UNPjournals! Read here on @ProjectMUSE 👇 muse.jhu.edu/article/961623

At the same time, however, African systems of energy use also greased the wheels of French imperial expansion, fueling the very steamships and #railways used to subjugate them.

We’re back from a short break and excited to be spotlighting the latest from John Cropper (@CofC) in our special section, ‘Fueling the Nineteenth Century: Energy and Nineteenth-Century French Studies’, ed. by Cary Hollinshead-Strick (@auparis) and Anne O’Neil-Henry (@georgetown)!