Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption In Late Nineteenth-Century France. By Rosalind H. Williams. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. xii + 451 pp. $29.50.)

This essay focuses on British and American reading rooms at the end of the nineteenth century in French travel centres such as Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cannes, and Paris. These reading rooms were sites of transit that reveal the travelling cultures of Britons and Americans. They set in motion certain travel sociabilities and practices, suggested various transit routes and itineraries, promoted different cultural and national affiliations and identities, and collected, represented, and displayed anglophone cultures. They operated as microcosms of British and American cultures, offering essentialized experiences and connections with people, behaviour, and things affiliated with home, but this essay shows how they were also social environments that not only reinforced, but also reshaped and interrogated anglophone cultures on the move in British, American, and French cultural territories.

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The emergence of modern Greek studies in late-nineteenth-century France and England: The yearbooks of the Association pour l’encouragement des études grecques en France (1867) and of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1877)

Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers ◽

10.5117/9789462988071_ch03 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alexandros Katsigiannis

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Modern Greek ◽

Nineteenth Century France ◽

French And English ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Modern Greece

Was the field of modern Greek studies perceived as an ‘exotic’ discipline in the making, or was it considered to be a branch of the already canonised Hellenic studies? This chapter examines two major associations that were established in the late nineteenth century in France and in England and dealt with the promotion of Greek studies: the Association pour l’encouragement des études grecques en France (1867) and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (1877). Their yearbooks constitute an unexamined treasure of information illuminating the reception of modern Greece and, at the same time, the construction of the modern Greek cultural identity by French and English Hellenists, from the mid-1860s onward.

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Autobiographical Voices: Performing Absence in Singers’ Memoirs

Cambridge Opera Journal ◽

10.1017/s0954586719000053 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (2-3) ◽

pp. 165-185

Author(s):

Kimberly White

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Nineteenth Century France ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

The Moment ◽

The Voice ◽

Life Writings

AbstractThis article explores the emergent genre of singers’ autobiographies in late nineteenth-century France. The moment singers took up the pen is telling, as it coincides with their dislodgement in the operatic marketplace from creator and collaborator to interpreter. In their life writings, Gilbert Duprez and Gustave Roger demonstrate a strong preoccupation with revising their public images and the histories that had been written about them. I argue that what critics felt was a flaw – the tenors’ predominant focus on relationships in their autobiographies, rather than on art – reveals how Duprez and Roger sought to reconstruct their artistic identities beyond the voice, locating their most profound contributions in their exchanges and actions within the musical community.

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Women and the Language of Statistics in Late-Nineteenth-Century France

French Politics Culture & Society ◽

10.3167/fpcs.2019.370301 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Hélène Périvier ◽

Rebecca Rogers

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Economy ◽

World's Fair ◽

Feminist Movement ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Social Analysis ◽

French Economy ◽

Nineteenth Century France ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Chicago World's Fair

This article considers how women adopted a “scientific” statistical language at the end of the nineteenth century to draw attention to their role in the moral and social economy. It explores in particular the messages contained in La Statistique générale de la femme française, a series of eighteen murals that the moderate feminist Marie Pégard sent for exhibition at the Woman’s Building at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The article begins by considering the place statistics held in France in the final decades of the century within the context of universal exhibitions. It then examines Pégard’s choice of quantified categories of social analysis to convey a sustained argument about the comparative weight of women in a modernizing French economy. The article seeks to understand how contemporaries read and interpreted the graphs, and how this mode of rendering visible the issue of women’s work played into the politics of an emerging feminist movement.

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