Specifics of irony in selected novels by Rudolf Sloboda by Romana Antalová

“…The article examines the specifics of the irony that can be observed in the novels Narcis (Narcissus, 1965) and Rozum (Reason, 1982). …”
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May Sinclair’s Romantic Corpus by Leslie de Bont

“…Sinclair’s marked interest in Romantic poetry suggests a little-known continuum between Romanticism and Modernism. …”
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Heart to Heart: The Power of Lyrical Bonding in Romantic Nationalism by Joep Leerssen

“… In nineteenth-century nation-building, the textual genres investigated by researchers are usually long-distance, mediated ones, such as journalism and the novel. This article attempts to assess the function of a much more intimate literary genre, the lyrical, in that process. …”
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Virtually Connected: Do Shared Novel Activities in Virtual Reality Enhance Self-Expansion and Relationship Quality? by Rhonda N. Balzarini, Anya Sharma, Amy Muise

“…According to self-expansion theory, sharing novel experiences with a romantic partner can help prevent boredom and maintain relationship quality. …”
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A controversial legacy from the Romantic period. Al-Andalus echoes in films featuring tourists (1905-1975) by Alfonso Fernández-Tabales, María C. Puche-Ruiz

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Madame B. : L’analyse cinématographique d’un roman by Mieke Bal

“…Film analysis of a novelThis article investigates how the creative act can become an analytical method. …”
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Salammbô et la crise du personnage by Walid Ezzine

“…The ascendancy of the character promoted and developed by a long romantic tradition is questioned in this novel by the exuberance of objects. …”
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De San Francisco à Chicago : les « villes de papier » de Frank Νorris by Pascale Antolin

“…This paper seeks to examine the role played by the city in three major novels by Frank Norris: McTeague, The Octopus and The Pit. …”
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Le Bruit de l'amer: Time, Loss and Fossilized Romanticism in Madame Bovary by Luke Bouvier

“…Indeed, when Emma indulges her taste for romantic imagery in listening to “les chants de cygnes mourants”, what she fails to hear is precisely the clichéd, worn-out nature of such imagery, romanticism's equivocal double voicing as a champ de signes mourants.…”
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Simp czy sigma? Wizerunek Stanisława Wokulskiego w memach by Anna Lauks

“…The article notes the connection between the traits associated with manhood in the Romantic and positivist periods and those of the 21st century. …”
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Perigosas brincadeiras:a infância em Marcelo Mirisola e Furio Lonza by Renan Ji

“…A short novel published in 2012, Teco, o garoto que não fazia aniversário creates the expectation of a bufonic and irreverent work, given the unorthodox place that authors like Furio Lonza and Marcelo Mirisola have today in the literary scene and in terms of writing style. …”
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Le Queenborough d’Ellen Glasgow : cartographie d’une Babylone en devenir by Brigitte Zaugg

“…For her "tragicomedies of manners", The Romantic Comedians (1926), They Stooped to Folly (1929) and The Sheltered Life (1932), Ellen Glasgow chose a common setting, the fictional town of Queenborough. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

“…Literary criticism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been charting the ways in which the discourses of literature and political economy intersect, despite the Romantic disavowal of their commonalities. Aiming to contribute to this ongoing scholarly effort, this essay pinpoints an unexpected affinity between Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, a novel which addresses the plight of the poor under the New Poor Law of 1834, and the political economist J. …”
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L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…All these variations on the gothic pattern of persecution enacted in « the secret theatre of home » serve to expose and denounce social and family diseases.Physical and mental disease is of course a central concern for two major male (though sexually ambiguous) Collinsian figures, namely Ezra Jennings in The Moonstone—an opium (ab)user like Thomas De Quincey (a strong influence in the novel) and like Collins himself—and Miserrimus Dexter (associated with a Romantic intertext of excess) in The Law and The Lady. …”
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Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…While Hardy’s support of paganism has been much debated, the comparison between these two novels shows that everything tends towards an unambiguous praise of paganism, which appears as a possible alternative to Christianity. …”
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‘Queer Reverence’: Aubrey Beardsley’s Venus and Tannhäuser by Nicole Fluhr

“…My analysis focuses on its rejection of the source legend’s central themes of guilt and redemption, both of which are not only absent from but unimaginable in the world of the novel. In both its published and draft forms, Beardsley’s narrative depicts only Venus’s realm. …”
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Ideas clash on the mountain tops : politique de la montagne et sentiment national dans l’Ecosse du vingtième siècle by Camille Manfredi

“…This paper proposes tο explore the multiple deflections of the mountain motif in a selection of poems, novels and performances by Scottish artists from the first literary renaissance to the present. …”
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