Nineteenth-Century t: h St If\F A YETTE COLLEGE rrenc uates MAY VOL. IV. No.3 4 SKillMAN CONVERSA nON NINETEENTH-CENTURY lQW.tING 1976 LIBRARY IN FRENCH STUDIES Contents Preface ... ... ... Forum: Contemporary Critical Perspectives and the Teaching of Nineteenth-Century French Literature. Moderator: Jean Bruneau. Panelists: Genevieve Delattre, B. F. Bart, Robert J. Niess, Murray Sachs... 127 129 Articles Luigi Monga. Lamartine's Ambivalent Relationship with Italy: An Episode of the "Risorgimento" .. Oscar A. Haac. The Literature of History: Michelet's Middle Ages. Tatiana Greene. De J. Sand a George Sand: Rose et Blanche de Sand et Sandeau et leur descendance Lois Russell. Une Etude lexicologique du mot "fatal" dans La Chartreuse de Parme . _. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Helene Ortali. Images of Women in Balzac's La Cousine Bette Fernande Bassan. De la tragedie classique au drame romantique en France ... ... ... ... Sharon L. Fairchild. Les Personnages de femmes dans huit pieces de Musset ... ... ... ... Patricia J. Siegel. Musset, protagoniste de I'avenir ... ... .. Mario Hamlet-Metz, La Destinee theatrale des Vepres siciliennes ... Bettina L. Knapp. Gerard de Nerval: The Queen of Sheba and the Occult ... ... ... ... ... ... ...... ........ ... ... ... Laurence M. Porter. Nerval's Sylvie: The Flight from Materiality. Robert C. Carroll. Gerard de Nerval: Prodigal Son of History... Alexander Fischler. The Decadent Side of Aestheticism: Heredia's Antony and Cleopatra Triptych ... ... .. Alan S. Rosenthal. Baudelaire's Mysterious "Enemy" ... 152 162 169 183 194 206 213 220 233 244 258 263 274 286 Eugene F. Gray. Flaubert's Esthetics and the Problem of Knowledge. Carrol F. Coates. Daumier and Flaubert: Examples of Graphic and Literary Caricature Elaine Iasenas. The French Influence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Hela Michot-Dietrich La Fille Elisa critique de prisons Palomba Paves-Yashinsky. Castagnary, Ie Naturalisme et Courbet Antonino Musumeci. Tasso, Zola and the Vicissitudes of Pastoralism. Diane Wolfe Levy. History as Art: Ironic Parody in Anatole France's Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue Alice R. Kaminsky. The Literary Concept of Decadence Frederic A. Busi. The Legacy of Edouard Drumont as an ecrinain de combat Aleksandra Gruzinska. Octave Mirbeau antimilitariste Beatrice Braude. Severine, ecriuain de combat 295 303 312 323 332 344 361 371 385 394 404 Nineteenth-Century French Studies is published in the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer. All communications, books for review, and changes of address should be sent to the Editor, T. H. Goetz, Dept. of Foreign Languages, State University College, Fredonia, N. Y., 14063. NCFS is abstracted in the MLA Abstracts and indexed in the Romantic Movement Bibliography, the MLA International Bibliography, and the Revue d'Histoire Litteraire de La France. For information about the availability of back issues, inquire of the editor. Early and current volumes may be obtained on microfilm from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106. Purchase of current volumes on film is restricted to subscribers of the journal. Printed in Spain by Artes Graficas Soler, S. A., [avea, 28, Valencia-8. <t> 1976 BY T. H. GOETZ DEPOSlTO LEGAL: v, 2.118 - 1976