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Nineteenth-Century French Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of 19th-century French literature and related fields. It is published in English and French [1] by the University of Nebraska Press. The journal publishes book reviews online. [1]
Honoré de Balzac is the most prominent representative of 19th century realism in fiction. His La Comédie humaine , a vast collection of nearly 100 novels, was the most ambitious scheme ever devised by a writer of fiction—nothing less than a complete contemporary history of his countrymen.
Sophie de Renneville (1772–1822), writer, editor, journalist; François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), author of Atala and René; Étienne Pivert de Senancour (1770–1846) Charles Nodier (1780–1844) Fanny Tercy (1782–1851), author of Pierre et Marcellin; sister-in-law of Charles Nodier
A map of France in 1843 under the July Monarchy. By the French Revolution, the Kingdom of France had expanded to nearly the modern territorial limits. The 19th century would complete the process by the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice (first during the First Empire, and then definitively in 1860) and some small papal (like Avignon) and foreign possessions.
Maurice Agulhon (1926–2014), French history of the 19th and 20th centuries [26] Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), Nazi occupation of France [1] Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), cultural history, with focus on the changing nature of childhood, and attitudes toward death [1] [27]
From the late 1920s to the 1960s, social and economic interpretations of the Revolution, often from a Marxist perspective, dominated the historiography of the Revolution in France. This trend was challenged by revisionist historians in the 1960s who argued that class conflict was not a major determinant of the course of the Revolution and that ...
The Rise of Western Journalism 1815–1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007), Chapter on France by Ross Collins; Cragin, Thomas J. "The Failings of Popular News Censorship in Nineteenth-Century France." Book History 4.1 (2001) pp. 49–80. online
Journal of Contemporary History 1986 21(2): 209–224. ISSN 0022-0094 Fulltext: in Jstor; Huppert, George. "Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch: The Creation of the Annales". The French Review 55#4 (1982), pp. 510–513 in JSTOR; Iggers, G.G. Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (1997), ch.5