New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies, Summer 2012

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

Italian Works

Benadusi, Lorenzo, Suzanne Dingee, and Jennifer Pudney. The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.

Bisi, Lucia. Nutrire Milano: storia e paesaggio dell'alimentazione in città. Milano: Skira, 2011.

Cardini, Franco, and Raffaele Licinio. Il naso del templare: sei saggi storici su templari, corsari, viaggiatori, mastri massari e monstra medievali. Bari: Caratteri mobili, 2012.

Convegno Tra nazione e nazioni, le identità politiche in Italia tra Sette e Ottocento, Angela De Benedictis, Irene Polverini Fosi, and Luca Mannori. Nazioni d'Italia: identità politiche e appartenenze regionali fra Settecento e Ottocento. Roma: Viella, 2012. 

Curto, Eupreprio. Tsunami giallo: la presenza cinese in Italia alla luce dei nuovi equilibri mondiali: riflessioni e spunti. Galatina (Le) [i.e. Lecce, Italy]: Congedo, 2012.

Ducci, Lucia, Stefano Luconi, and Matteo Pretelli. Le relazioni tra Italia e Stati Uniti: dal Risorgimento alle conseguenze dell'11 settembre. Roma: Carocci, 2012.

Magris, Claudio, and Ernestina Pellegrini. Opere. Milano: A. Mondadori, 2012.

Moroni, Chiara. Genesi e storia del Popolo della libertà: quale futuro per un partito unico del centrodestra. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2012.

Pade, Marianne. On Renaissance academies: proceedings of the international conference "From the Roman Academy to the Danish Academy in Rome - Dall'Accademia Romana all'Accademia di Danimarca a Roma" : The Danish Academy in Rome, 11-13 October 2006. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2011.

Staccioli, Giuseppe, and Mario Cassar. L'ultima città musulmana: Lucera. Bari: Caratteri mobili, 2012.

Strunck, Christina. Medici women as cultural mediators, 1533-1743: le donne di casa Medici e il loro ruolo di mediatrici culturali fra le corti d'Europa. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2011.

Vacca, Giuseppe. Vita e pensieri di Antonio Gramsci, 1926-1937. Torino: G. Einaudi, 2012.


French Works 

Chamoiseau, Patrick. L'empreinte à Crusoé: [récit]. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2012.

Confiant, Raphaël. Rue des Syriens: roman. [Paris]: Mercure de France, 2012.

Faucher, Albert, and Eléonore Faucher. Quand les cigognes claquaient du bec dans les eucalyptus: correspondance d'un appelé d'Algérie, février-juillet 1962. [Paris]: Fayard, 2012.

Fraisse, Geneviève. La fabrique du féminisme: [textes et entretiens]. Congé-sur-Orne: Passager clandestin, 2012. 

Greilsammer, Myriam. L'usurier chrétien, un juif métaphorique: histoire de l'exclusion des prêteurs lombards, XIIIe-XVIIe siècle. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

Hovasse, Jean-Marc. Correspondance et théâtre: actes du colloque de Brest, 31 mars-1er avril 2011. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

Mougin, Pascal, ed. Dictionnaire de la littérature française et francophone. [Paris]: Larousse, 2012. 

French book trade in Enlightenment Europe - new scholarly database

Researchers at the University of Leeds' Centre for the Comparative History of Print (Centre CHoP) have recently released a database showing the dispersion of books published by the Société typographique de Neuchâtel between the years 1769-1794. The database allows scholars to chart the dissemination networks of the almost 4000 editions of 3600 titles published during these years by this important Enlightenment press, and to conduct advanced searches and analysis of individual titles or of books grouped by title, author, and geographic or subject categories.

Here is the project's press release and URL:

"Simon Burrows and Mark Curran are pleased to announce the on-line publication of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe database at:

http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/

A major resource for bibliographical, historical and literary scholarship, it is now made freely available to academics and the wider public.

The database, funded by a £355,485 grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, tracks the dissemination of over 400,000 copies of almost 4,000 editions of 3,600 works around Europe by a celebrated Swiss publisher-bookseller, the Société typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), in the period 1769-1794.

The database allows users to explore the STN’s supply and distribution networks across time and space, on both a macro and a micro level. They can investigate the dissemination of single works or the trade of individual clients; the STN’s client networks; the distribution patterns for all works, or those by a particular author or on particular themes. Specialist tools allow for geographic mapping; the graphing of trends over time; or the creation of local and regional best-sellers tables. Advanced query options make it possible to make specialised searches by, among other things, legal or illegal sectors; gender or clients; or place of publication.

Using a state-of-the-art intuitive user interface, the database is also accompanied by written guides and instructional videos."

New Arrivals in French and Italian Studies, Spring 2012

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

French Works

Bernardi, Bruno. Rousseau et la Révolution. [Paris]: Gallimard, 2012.

Crăiuțu, Aurelian. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012.

Dosse, Florence. Les héritiers du silence: enfants d'appelés en Algérie. [Paris]: Stock, 2012.

Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. L'apocalypse joyeuse: une histoire du risque technologique. Paris: Seuil, 2012. 312p. 23.00E.

Hamza, Assiya. Mémoires d'enracinés: mes rencontres avec ces pieds-noirs qui ont choisi de rester en Algérie. Paris: Michalon, 2012.

Harismendy, Patrick, and Erwan Le Gall. Pour une histoire de la France Libre. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

Hervé-Montel, Caroline. Renaissance littéraire & conscience nationale: les premiers romans en français au Liban et en Égypte, 1908-1933. Paris: Geuthner, 2012.

Juin, Claude. Des soldats tortionnaires: guerre d'Algérie, des jeunes gens ordinaires confrontés à l'intolérable. Paris: Laffont, 2012. 363p. 21.00E.

Knee, Philip. Rousseau et le romantisme. Montmorency: Société internationale des amis du Musée J.-J. Rousseau, 2011.

Martin, Jean-Pierre, and Claudine Nédélec. Traduire, trahir, travestir: études sur la réception de l'Antiquité. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2012.

McPhee, Peter. Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Melzer, Sara E. Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.

Pirotte, Jean-Claude. Ajoie: poésie. Paris: Table ronde, 2012.

Italian Works

Angelini, Margherita. Fare storia: culture e pratiche della ricerca in Italia da Gioacchino Volpe a Federico Chabod. Roma: Carocci, 2012.

Bigazzi, Isabella. Sfogliando la moda: riviste di moda e figurini teatrali. Firenze: Edifir, 2011.

Fasiolo, Francesco. Italia da fumetto: il graphic journalism e la narrativa disegnata che raccontano la realtà italiana di ieri e di oggi. Latina, Italy: Tunué, 2012.

Past, Elena. Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Schoonover, Karl. Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Seccia, Giorgio. Il calcio in guerra: gioco di squadra e football nella Grande Guerra. Udine: Gaspari, 2011.

Tanzini, Lorenzo, and Sergio Tognetti. Mercatura è arte: uomini d'affari toscani in Europa e nel Mediterraneo tardomedievale. Roma: Viella, 2012.