Department of French Studies: Recent submissions
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A Literary translation and critical analysis of Voltaire's "Prix de la justice et de l'humanité" (1777)
(2021-02-19)On 1 October 1777, the Economic Society of Berne proposed a reform discussion in the Gazette de Berne, that required entrants to ‘compose and write a complete and detailed legislative proposal on criminal matters.’ As a ... -
Instruire et plaire - l’implication idéologique de la littérature enfantine dans le débat sur l’éducation en France au XIXe siècle
(2021-02-19)‘To instruct and delight’: ideology and children’s literature in 19th-century France The dialectical tension between instructional and purely recreational, between didactic and imaginative, between socialisation and ... -
A review of 'Crime et culture au XIXe siècle, Kalifa, D' (Pre-published version)
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A review of 'The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808–1892). Bringing World Literature to France, by Wendy S. Mercer' (Pre-published version)
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A review of 'Népomucène Louis Lemercier, Christophe Colomb.' By Vincenzo de Santis (Pre-published version)
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A review of 'French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval' by C. W. Thompson (Pre-published version)
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La fabrique d’un roi: les représentations de Louis XIV pendant son enfance et sa première jeunesse (1638-1661) dans la fiction littéraire en France de la Révolution à Alexandre Dumas
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This doctoral thesis proposes a study of fictional representations of the young dauphin and monarch Louis XIV in literary fiction in France from the Revolution to Alexandre Dumas. It specifically examines the portrayal of ... -
Du rayonnement a l’eclipse, l’image mediatique et institutionnelle de casimir delavigne (1793-1843)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis, entitled « From radiance to eclipse, Casimir Delavigne’s media image », throws light on the career of this now-forgotten author. It completes and continues the research begun with the Colloque « Casimir Delavigne ... -
Seeking transcendence: death, rebirth and transformation in the poetry of Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn in England in 1877, moved to Paris at the age of twenty-one, where she pursued a literary career. Between 1901 and 1909, when she died at the age of thirty-two, Vivien published over ... -
Introduction: Les Martyrs de la Veuve, Romantisme et peine de mort
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Jules Lefèvre-Deumier, Un poète romantique contre la peine de mort:Quatre poèmes
(University of Liverpool, Department of French., 2005)'Jules Lefèvre-Deumier,Un poète romantique contre la peine de mort : Quatre poèmes' is a critical edition by Dr Loïc Guyon which was published in 2005 by the University of Liverpool, Department of French in their Liverpool ... -
Côté cour et côté monde: le voyage théâtral au XIXe siècle.
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Le sex-appeal de la Veuve: guillotine et fantasmes romantiques.
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Le voyage façon Verne.
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Liberté, égalité, sororité : a study of the theatrical works of Olympe de Gouges 1748-1793
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Marie Olympe de Gouges was born Marie Gouze in Montauban, France on the seventh of May 1748. Widowed at the age of eighteen, she left her native Montauban accompanied by her young son to pursue a career as a writer in Paris ... -
A Study of French Suburban Discourse from Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This work seeks to investigate French suburban discourse from both sociolinguistic and literary perspectives. As part of a wider negative discourse pertaining to the banlieue, these areas have come under criticism from ... -
L’Homme Social selon Emile Zola: une Sociologie par la Littérature.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Emile Zola (1840-1902), a nineteenth-century French writer whose name is synonymous with the school of literary naturalism, assembled a substantial corpus of fictional works in which a strong sociological perspective is ...