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The collaboration between Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the Dijon printer Maurice Darantière that resulted in first printing of Ulysses 1922 was commemorated a 1988 study by modernist scholar Jean-Michel Rabaté: Darantière, les années vingt: bibliographie d’imprimeur. bibliography appended to investigation Darantière's publishing history (1900-1928) reveals remarkable number volumes English-la...

Absence, and particularly the absent father, has been identified as a common feature in late eighteenth – nineteenth-century French novels. In an era which patriarchal order was changing King — nation’s father removed, it is unsurprising that so many of its novels have fathers. subsequent decades, children were left orphans wake Terror, lack figure key issue crisis masculinity arose France. The...

This article analyses the published letters of two important artists, Camille Claudel (1864–1943) and Antonin Artaud (1869–1948), who were incarcerated in French psychiatric asylums early twentieth century. It argues that although asylum deviate from standard modes epistolography, pose interpretive difficulties, they remain sophisticated hyper-meaningful communications. Contending language ‘sch...