Depicting Desire

The Editor: Rachael Langford has a BA from Oxford and a Ph.D. from Cambridge and is Senior Lecturer in French at Cardiff University. She teaches and researches late nineteenth-century French cultural studies and Francophone African cultural studies, and has published articles and books in these areas.

Contents: Rachael Langford: Introduction: Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Europe - Points of Convergence - Victoria Best: Sex and the City: Angels and Demons in Second Empire Paris - Vivian Ralickas: The Abject Sublime in Poe - Michael Gratzke: Mondscheinjägerei. Joseph von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild as a mise-en-abîme - Nigel Harkness: Negotiating Masculinity: Nineteenth-Century Re-interpretations of Manon Lescaut - Blandine Chambost: Beyond the Frame: Female Excess in Zola's L' uvre - Giovanna Silvani/Vanja Strukelj: The Legend of Salome in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art - Elaine Pigeon: (Homo)sexuality and Impressionism in Henry James's The Ambassadors - Robert Howes: Cartoon and Literary Images of Homosexuality in Nineteenth-Century Portugal - Alison Sinclair: Errant Strands and Loose Ends: Subjugation and (Dis)closure in the Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel - Lisa P. Condé: Gender and Power in Pérez Galdós's play, La loca de la casa (1893) - Isobel Hurst: 'The Feminine of Homer': Elizabeth Barett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows - Anindyo Roy: 'Gold and Bracelet, Water and Wave': Signature and Translation in the Indian Poetry of Adela Cory Nicolson - Christine Colón: Framing the Texts: Power and Subversion in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White - Nicholas White: Green Eyes and Purple Prose: Late Nineteenth-Century French Divorce Literature - a Proposal for Research - Karl Leydecker: The Politics of Divorce: Fanny Lewald's Eine Lebensfrage in the Context of Prussian Divorce Reform in the 1840s.