Monday, April 30, 2012



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

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Copyright and Fair Use

I've recently received some requests about copyright issues and getting permission for the use of photos to use in publications. Stanford University Libraries has a great website about Copyright and Fair Use issues:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Permissions and related issues are dealt with in the Copyright Overview section, at the upper left, or from the "Overview" tab, as well as in the sections "Charts and Tools" and "Libraries and Education." 

Librarians cannot give legal advice, but we can point you to these resources. It is the responsibility of scholars and individuals to make every effort to comply with laws and standard practice. Open source and "copyleft" practices are gaining ground in the academy, and you may want to consider these with your own work. Creative Commons is one way of clearly maintaining copyright on your own works and ensuring proper attribution, while also making it easy for others to use your research. Creative Commons proposes several types of licences that you can apply to your work, offering varying degrees of use restrictions.

http://creativecommons.org/

Copyright and fair use is about correctly using materials in your own work, and making sure that your rights as a scholar and content creator are respected by others.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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.

Monday, March 26, 2012

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!
brought to you by...
Sarah Sussman, curator of French and Italian Collections