Modern & Contemporary France

Universal, acid: Houellebecq’s clones and the evolution of humanity

Houellebecq antilibéral, du sexe à l’islam

‘F&#% autonomy’: Houellebecq, Submission, and Enlightenment’s ‘last dismaying dregs’

Middlebrow matters: women’s reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Epoque

Introduction, ‘La France, ce n’est pas Michel Houellebecq’

Zazie’s enduring legacy: a philosophical reflection

‘Le mot déclin est presque trop doux’: Michel Houellebecq’s (Euro)déclinisme

Locating Guyane

Stealing home: looting, restitution, and reconstructing Jewish lives in France, 1942-1947

The French revolution and Napoleon: crucible of the modern world

Sébastien Lifshitz: cinéaste des identités

Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860–1970

Pétain’s Jewish children French Jewish youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940-1942

‘I am expected to say something. I know not what’ (Vivanti 1918, 146): silence and working through in rape narratives of the First World War

Beyond gay liberation: France’s other sexual minorities

The everyday poetics of gender-inclusive French: strategies for navigating the linguistic landscape

‘L’homosexualité? ça n’existe pas en banlieue’: the indigènes de la république and gay marriage, between intersectionality and homophobia

Critical lives: Arthur Rimbaud

Division within the French Centre Right during the Hollande presidency: the case of cultural insecurity

The return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939

Baudelaire in song 1880–1930

« Où sont les super-héros français ? Du Comte de Monte-Cristo à Astérix en passant par Mikros & Photonik »

Forging Europe: industrial organisation in France, 1940–1952

Writing the mind: representing consciousness from proust to the present

History is a contemporary literature manifesto for the social sciences

Two comics adaptations of Zazie dans le métro: from figuration to tradaptation

La Fin de l’empire colonial français en Afrique de l’Ouest: Entre utopie et désillusion

From Bataille to Badiou Lignes, the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987–2017

Bernard Faÿ, Antoine Compagnon: the modern/anti-modern, or the delicate balance of the ‘Entre-Deux’

Zazie@60: some linguistic considerations

L’Amour en guerre: Sur les traces d’une correspondance pendant la guerre d’Algérie

The music of Dada: a lesson in intermediality for our times

‘Am I not an Author?’ Social class and the contemporary French novel

The challenge of totalitarianism and the remaking of the church

Mapping Zazie’s Paris in Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro (1960)

Her(media)land ? Nouveaux espaces militants par et pour les lesbiennes en France au XXIème siècle

Transgender migrations: prostitution, identity and notions of ‘home’ in contemporary France

Uncovering Paris: scandals and nude spectacles in the Belle Époque

Introduction. Zazie@60: consécration culturelle in the Anglophone and Francophone worlds

Coluche and posthumous celebrity: competing and consensual media discourses

Twilight of the elites: prosperity, periphery and the future of France

Perpetual motion studies in French poetry from surrealism to the postmodern

Guerre d’Algérie Le sexe outragé

Comment habiter le monde ? Michel Houellebecq architecte

Adaplastics: forming the Zazie dans le métro network

In visibilities: the Groupe du 6 novembre and the production of liberal lesbian identity in contemporary France

The daughters of Pepsi and the pill: de-dramatising abortion in the French New Wave