New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies, Spring 2012

A selection of books that have recently made their way to the library . . .

Italian

Alonzi, Luigi. Economia e finanza nell'Italia moderna: rendite e forme di censo, secoli XV-XX. Roma: Carocci, 2011.

Amari, Michele, and Amelia Crisantino. Studii su la storia di Sicilia dalla metà del XVIII secolo al 1820. Palermo: Accademia nazionale di scienze lettere e arti, 2010.

Caldwell, Dorigen Sophie, and Lesley Caldwell. Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011.

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Bàrberi Squarotti, Giorgio. Le donne al potere e altre interpretazioni: Boccaccio e Ariosto. [San Cesario di Lecce]: Manni, 2011.

Caldwell, Dorigen Sophie, and Lesley Caldwell. Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011. 

Carminati, Clizia, and Stefano Villani. Storie inglesi: l'Inghilterra vista dall'Italia tra storia e romanzo (XVII sec.). Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2011.

Castiglia, Paola. Un'altra donna è possibile: [voci fuori dal coro nell'Italia del bunga bunga]. Roma: Vertigo, 2011.

Centro italiano di studi di storia e d'arte (Pistoia, Italy). La costruzione della città comunale italiana (secoli XII-inizio XIV): ventunesimo convegno internazionale di studi, Pistoia, 11-14 maggio 2007. Pistoia: Centro italiano di studi di storia e d'arte, 2009.

De Vitt, Flavia. Famiglie del Medioevo: storie di vita in Friuli (secoli XIV-XV). Udine: Forum, 2011.

Ferrara degli Uberti, Carlotta. Fare gli ebrei italiani: autorappresentazioni di una minoranza (1861-1918). Bologna: Il mulino, 2011.

Garducci, Fabio, Leonardo Gori, and Sergio Lama. Eccetto Topolino: lo scontro culturale tra fascismo e fumetti. Roma: NPE, 2011.

Grisi, Cesare. Il romanzo autobiografico: un genere letterario tra opera e autore. Roma: Carocci, 2011.

La Capria, Raffaele. Esercizi superficiali: nuotando in superficie. Milano: Mondadori, 2012.

Lucano. Pharsalia: volgarizzamento toscano trecentesco. Firenze: Sismel edizioni del Galluzzo, 2011.

Lunaria, ed. Cronache di ordinario razzismo: secondo libro bianco sul razzismo in Italia. [Roma]: Edizioni dell'Asino, 2011.

Marzo Magno, Alessandro. L'alba dei libri: quando Venezia ha fatto leggere il mondo. Milano: Garzanti, 2012.

Menestò, Enrico. L'umbria Nel Xiii Secolo. 1. ed. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2011.

Pietrini, Sandra. I giullari nell'immaginario medievale. Roma: Bulzoni, 2011.

Rothman, E. Natalie. Brokering Empire : Trans-imperial Subjects Between Venice and Istanbul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.

Scalamandrè, Raffaele. Il tema del tabacco nella poesia italiana e francese dai primi del Settecento alla fine dell'Ottocento. Napoli [etc.]: Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2011.

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Stoppino, Eleonora. Genealogies of Fiction : Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination In the Orlando Furioso. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.

Tellini, Gino, and Paolo Valesio. Beyond Futurism: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, writer : for the centennial aniversary of the Italian avant-garde = Al di là del Futurismo. Firenze: Società editrice fiorentina, 2011.

French

Bradby, David, and Clare Finburgh. Jean Genet. Abington, Oxon: Routledge, 2012.

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Braider, Christopher. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. 

Copeau, Jacques, and Christophe Allwright. Anthologie inachevée à l'usage des jeunes générations. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2012.

Heywood, Sophie. Catholicism and Children's Literature in France: The Comtesse De Ségur, 1799-1874. Manchester: Manchester university press, 2011.

Mabanckou, Alain. Le sanglot de l'homme noir. [Paris]: Fayard, 2012.

Popkin, Jeremy D. A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Singaravélou, Pierre, and Christophe Charles. Professer l'Empire: les sciences coloniales en France sous la IIIe République. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011.

Thénault, Sylvie. Violence ordinaire dans l'Algérie coloniale: camps, internements, assignations à résidence. Paris: Jacob, 2012.

Thomas, Elaine R. Immigration, Islam, and the Politics of Belonging in France: A Comparative Framework. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Thompson, C. W. French Romantic Travel Writing Chateaubriand to Nerval. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Todorov, Tzvetan. Les ennemis intimes de la démocratie. Paris: Laffont, 2012.

Triolaire, Cyril. La Révolution franc̦aise au miroir des recherches actuelles: actes du colloque tenu à Ivry-sur-Seine (15-16 juin 2010). Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2011.

Viard, Jean. Nouveau portrait de la France: la société des modes de vie. La Tour d'Aigues: Aube, 2011.

Wiazemsky, Anne. Une année studieuse: roman. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2012.

Wolf, Nelly. Amnésies françaises à l'époque gaullienne, 1958-1981: littérature, cinéma, presse, politique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011.

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new journal in Project Muse

Project Muse, the online journal archive, has just added the annual publication Women in French Studies to their collection. Currently only the latest volume is available, but all subsequent issues will be added as they are published.

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/women_in_french_studies/

Articles in this volume cover subjects as varied as Marguerite de Navarre, Lucie Aubrac, Rachilde, and Amelie Nothombe. There are over a dozen book reviews and reviews of translations.

Guide des sources - Archives du féminisme

Are you doing research on a topic about French women? The history of feminism in France?

If so, you should know that the Guide des sources de l'histoire du féminisme : de la Révolution française à nos jours (Christine Bard, et al., eds. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006) has been updated and is now available as an online database.

You can access the Guide des Sources here: http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr/GDS/

Searching is by keyword or using the "advanced search" fields, including collection name, subject, dates.

The Archives du féminisme website contains many other resources, including digitized archives, as well as information about the Centre des archives du féminisme at the Université d'Angers. 

Of course,  Stanford University Libraries has many great primary sources right on campus, from the works of prominent French feminists and theorists, to early feminist press and titles by and about women in France. Keywords to start your searching are: France Feminism.

Some microfilms of note are listed here.  

We have the research archive of the scholar Patrick Bidelman, which contains photocopies and other reproductions of rare French feminist pamphlets and journals.

An important digital resource is the Gerritsen Collection:Women’s History Online, 1543-1945.

These are just to get you started!

Recently acquired rare and antiquarian materials, February

Enlightenment materials, as well as a manuscript about life on the farm in the late 17th century...

Chaudon, Louis Mayeul (1737-1817). L’homme du monde éclairé, Entretiens. A Paris, chez Moutard, Libraire de Madame la Dauphine, quai des Augustins, près du pont S. Michel, à S. Ambroise. 1774.

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 303, [6], in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, red edges, with the later heraldic presentation bookplate of Christoper MacCartan, dated April 1851.

A work by a Benedictine monk, critic of Voltaire and author of a Dictionnaire antiphilosophique, to which Voltaire replied in later editions of his Dictionnaire philosophique. This work consists of 18 dialogues.

Vitalis, Antoine. Fables d’Antoine Vitallis.... A Paris, de l’Imprimerie de Du Pont. L’An III [1795].

FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], 235, in contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt with lozenge tooling in compartments, red morocco label lettered in gilt, some wear along the front joint, plain endpapers, marbled edges.

Works of an 18th century fabulist, inspired by La Fontaine,. Published during the French Revolution, his works show an engagement with contemporary issues, too. “ His ‘La République du Tigre’ (pp. 158-159) with its phrase ‘l’image du cahos’, can be seen as a commentary on the terror, whilst ‘Le Café’ (pp. 101) is a satire on the coffee- houses.Printed by Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours, the economist, in the same year as his arrest. He had purchased a printing house in 1791 in order to ensure the safe printing and distribution of his journals.” (Amanda Hall, TEFFONT XXVII).

See: RUNTE, ROSEANN, “The Paradox of the Fable in Eighteenth-Century France,” Neophilologus, 61:4 (1977:Oct.) p.510.

Reale Accademia delle Scienze (Naples, Italy), and Michele Sarcone. Statuti della Real Accademia delle Scienze e delle Belle Lettere, eretta in Napoli dalla sovrana munificenza. [Naples]: Nella Stamperia Reale, 1780.

“First edition of the rules and regulations of the Naples Academy of Science and Literature...  founded under the patronage of Ferdinand IV. The Academy covers mathematics, medicine, chemistry, botany, volcanology, mineralogy, and mechanics, and on the literature side, ancient history and antiquities. … A full list of local and foregin members is given, including many foreign scientists, such as Banks, Lagrange, d’Alembert, Bonnet, Spallanzani... The second half contains a thoughtful analysis of the legal organisation, with a suitable separation of the fianncial, academic, and political leadership, and with separate financial management.
Naples had actually been the home of the Accademia Secretorum Naturae, of Accademia di Segreti, founded by DellaPorta around 1560 and generally regarded as the earliest scientific society. However, when Della Porta waspersecuted for practicing the black arts, his academy was disbanded, although he was later acquitted.”  (Susanne Schulz-Falster, proof, catalogue 17)

“Livres de notice, des gages des domestique(s) et ouvrie(rs) de la bas cour, “1691. Manuscript in ink. France, np, ca. 1691-1704.
Narrow 4to; pp. [64], with a few blank leaves; bound in an earlier vellum liturgical manuscript leaf; fine manuscript in ink, written in a legible hand.
A manuscript documenting salaries paid for servants and other workers on an unidentified French estate at the end of the 17th century. The piece records information about 24 servants and their responsibilities.