About
Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Paris-Diderot University, he is president of the Society for Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Studies and editor of Magasin du XIXe siècle. His work has focused on the representation of writers in the nineteenth century (L’écrivain imaginaire.
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A Portrait of Balzac as a Romantic Writer
Balzac According to Davin (1834-1835)
In L’Année balzacienne (2000/1 No 1)
Balzac as an Analyst of Journalism
According to Monographie de la presse parisienne
In L’Année balzacienne (2006/1 No 7)
Literary Sociabilities Around 1830: The Role of the Press and Panoramic Literature
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2010/3 Vol. 110)
What Literary History?
Perspectives of a 19th-Century Specialist
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2003/3 Vol. 103)
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Campaigning with the “sons of Balzac” (1846–1862)
In L’Année balzacienne (2023/1 No 24)
Balzac, novelist of the “great social disease” (1838-1847)
In L’Année balzacienne (2016/1 No 17)
The intoxication of poets
In Revue de la BNF (2016/2 No 53)
Balzac and the poetics of anomie
In L’Année balzacienne (2014/1 No 15)
What Balzac Does do in the Fantastic
In L’Année balzacienne (2012/1 No 13)
"Fire in the fire"
Comparing Balzac's "Literary Art" to Painting
In L’Année balzacienne (2011/1 No 12)
Creating Together
Balzac and the Bilateral Reading Experience
In L’Année balzacienne (2010/1 No 11)
Presentation
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2010/3 Vol. 110)
Literary Sociabilities Around 1830: The Role of the Press and Panoramic Literature
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2010/3 Vol. 110)
Balzac's Response to Literary Revolutions
In L’Année balzacienne (2008/1 No 9)
Balzac as an Analyst of Journalism
According to Monographie de la presse parisienne
In L’Année balzacienne (2006/1 No 7)
"To be Witty"
In L’Année balzacienne (2005/1 No 6)
What Literary History?
Perspectives of a 19th-Century Specialist
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2003/3 Vol. 103)
A Portrait of Balzac as a Romantic Writer
Balzac According to Davin (1834-1835)
In L’Année balzacienne (2000/1 No 1)