During the nineteenth century, words like'intersex'and'trans' had not yet been invented to
describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that …

" Aujourd'hui le mariage religieux n'a plus la même importance", writes Auguste Debay, in
his 1851 Philosophie du mariage." Complètement nul en matière civile, il n'est regardé que …

Between 1871 and 1893, Émile Zola wrote and published a cycle of twenty volumes entitled
Les Rougon-Macquart. In this paper we investigate Zola's fictional accounts of female …

Gut, Brain, and Environment in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Medicine offers a
new way of conceptualizing food in literature: not as social or cultural symbol but as an …

This dissertation explores the evolution of the representation of physical and mental
disability in novels written by French women over the course of the nineteenth century. In …

In 1896 veteran French journalist and popular novelist Armand Dubarry took on an
unprecedented task: he started to produce a series of" psychopathological novels" based on …

Across a broad range of late nineteenth-century French medical texts that described the
newly denoted sexual pathologies of frigidity, inversion, fetishism, nymphomania, sadism …

This thesis investigates the representation of the doctor-patient relationship and encounter
in the nineteenth-century French novel. It incorporates and compares a number of authors …

Cet article soutient que le roman tardif de Zola Fécondité, tout en semblant de prime abord
être un roman à thèse didactique des plus transparents qui articule des préoccupations …

This annual French XX Bibliography provides the most complete listing available of books,
articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. Unique in its scope …