19th & 20th centuries

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  Bertrand MARQUER

  Les "Romans" de la Salpêtrière : réception d'une scénographie clinique : Jean-Martin Charcot dans l'imaginaire fin-de-siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Jean Martin Charcot contributed to the myth of the doctor as latter-day prophet. The biased way that the famous neurologist’s work was received is partly responsible for the distorted image of science in late nineteenth-century literature. Bertrand...

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  Christelle REGGIANI

  Eloquence du roman : rhétorique, littérature et politique aux XIXe et XXe siècles

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Christelle Reggiani traces the history of French fictional prose in modern times, defined as a new “age of eloquence”. As an art of public persuasive speech, rhetoric was rejected by the Scientific Revolution and then nineteenth-century French...

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  Cinq siècles d'histoire religieuse neuchâteloise. Approches d'une tradition protestante

  Actes du colloque de Neuchâtel (22-24 avril 2004)

  Université de Neuchâtel - Faculté des Lettres | Recueil de Travaux publiés par la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de l'Université de Neuchâtel

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  Charles NODIER

  Dictionnaire raisonné des onomatopées françaises

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The great lexicographer Pierre Larousse praised Charles Nodier’s dictionary of onomatopoeias as a « masterpiece of modern linguistics », noting its interest and erudition. Nodier explains in his preface that onomatopoeias are the source for all...

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  François BIZET

  Une Communication sans échange : Georges Bataille critique de Jean Genet

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  The tone of Bataille's famous article on Genet is irrevocably clear-cut: Genet's work is a ‘failure’ since it contravenes the rules of communication. Is such a sentence just a polemical retort against Sartre’s critique, or does it reveal some deeper...

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  Charles DIDIER

  Rome souterraine

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Charles Didier’s popular first novel, Subterranean Rome (1833), deals with the attempted uprising of a handful of carbonari after the pope’s death. The writing style, the description of Rome and the surrounding countryside, and a protagonist who is...

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  Rodolphe TÖPFFER

  Correspondance complète

  Volume III, mi-octobre 1832 - 8 septembre 1838

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance complète de R. Töpffer n° 3

  The third volume of Rodolphe Töpffer’s correspondence contains witty letters to his friends and colleagues David Munier and Auguste De la Rive. Between 1833 and 1838, Töpffer was not only the head of a boarding-school and a professor of rhetoric at...

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  Valentina PONZETTO

  Musset ou la nostalgie libertine

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  There is something anachronistic, and at the same time revolutionary, about Alfred de Musset’s yearning - at the height of romanticism - for the time of Louis XV and Casanova. Like Marivaux, Louvet de Couvray, Crébillon fils or Laclos, he deftly...

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  Nella ARAMBASIN

  Littérature contemporaine et "histoires" de l'art : récits d'une réévaluation

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  Since the 1990s many Western novelists have drawn inspiration, not from contemporary art, but from paintings of the past. Letting their imaginations be stimulated anachronistically, crediting memory with an ethical value, or aesthetics with an...

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  Littérature et médecine : approches et perspectives (XVIe-XIXe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Recherches et Rencontres

  Literature and medicine are more closely connected than one might think: these studies – on the writer-doctor as author and humanist, the rhetoric of medical treatises or handbooks, the literariness of medical doctrine, pathographies of writers, and...