Repression and Expression

Repression and Expression opens with several studies that clarify aspects of French thought and ideology from the Romantic pomp surrounding the executioner to Maurras on conspiracy. Other articles examine themes and techniques in fiction and theater (Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, the Goncourts, Zola, and Vallès). The section on «Revolutionary Pleasures» focuses on modes of expression during the Directorate, the July Revolution, and the political banquets of 1847. The final section groups studies on themes and conventions in poetry (Baudelaire, Gautier, Laforgue, Mallarmé) with theoretical considerations on rhyme and the genre of the «chanson».

The Editor: Carrol F. Coates, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY), serves as series editor of CARAF Books (University Press of Virginia) and associate editor of Callaloo. He has written on a wide range of French poetry (recent studies on Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé) and Francophone literature (Quebec and Haiti), and has translated René Depestre's The Festival of the Greasy Pole.