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COMMEMORAT ING TRAUMA .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:04 PS PAGEi .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:04 PS PAGEii COMMEMORATING TRAUMA The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath (cid:2) Peter Starr FordhamUniversityPress NewYork2006 .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:05 PS PAGEiii Copyright(cid:2)2006FordhamUniversityPress Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans—electronic, mechanical,photocopy,recording,oranyother—exceptforbriefquotations inprintedreviews,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData [TK] PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 07 06 5 4 3 2 1 Firstedition .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:05 PS PAGEiv For Liza and Julia .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:05 PS PAGEv .................15760$ $$FM 03-15-0610:10:05 PS PAGEvi Contents Acknowledgments ix NoteonTranslations xi Introduction TheCommuneandtheRighttoConfusion 1 1 WhyConfusion?WhytheCommune? 13 2 TheTimeofOurMelancholy:Zola’sDe´baˆcle 41 3 MourningTriumphant:Hugo’sTerribleYear(s) 60 4 ScienceandConfusion:Flaubert’sTemptation 86 5 ThePartyofMovement:Flaubert’sBouvardetPe´cuchet 116 6 DemocracyandMasochism:Zola’sBonheur 149 7 TheFilmicCommune 169 Notes 185 Bibliography 207 Index 221 vii .................15760$ CNTS 03-15-0610:10:08 PS PAGEvii .................15760$ CNTS 03-15-0610:10:08 PS PAGEviii Acknowledgments Although written largely over the past several years, this book has its roots inmygraduateworkatJohnsHopkins’sHumanitiesCenter.Ofalltheex- traordinary scholars with whom I had the pleasure of studying at Hopkins, several had an important role in helping me to conceptualize the unpub- lisheddissertationfromwhichthisstudyevolved.SpecialthankstoMichael Fried,NeilHertz,RuthLeys,andRichardMackseyaswellastoaremark- able cadre of fellow Hopkins students, whose work over the past two dec- ades has done so much to shape how we look at the French nineteenth century.TheyincludeDavidBell,SuzanneGuerlac,LawrenceSchehr,and BerylSchlossman. At various stages in the genesis of this project, I have been blessed with the support and good counsel of Frank Paul Bowman, Ross Chambers, Lawrence Kritzman, Dominick LaCapra, Juliet Flower MacCannell, and AlbertSonnenfeld.PeggyKamuf,KarenPinkus,HilarySchor,NancyVick- ers, and Margaret Waller have been thebest of colleagues—and the best of friends.ThesupportofUSC’sCollegeofLetters,ArtsandScienceshasbeen unwavering throughout. Special thanks to Deans Joseph Aoun, Marshall Cohen,andBethMeyerowitz. Once again, I am indebted to Helen Tartar for her professionalism, her goodhumor,andhertrulyuncannyknackforbooktitles.BethWilsondid an extraordinary job in copyediting this manuscript. Many thanks to Jean Skippforherhelpinpreparingtheindex. To my wife, Alice, and my daughters, Liza and Julia, I owe a debt that no acknowledgment or dedication can hope to express. So too my debt to ‘‘themothers’’:MarthaStarrandElizabethHill.Muchlovetoyouall. Aportionofchapter1appearedinContemporaryFrenchCivilization29,1 (2004). Earlier versions of chapters 4 and 5 appeared in MLN 99, 5 (1984) andNineteenth-CenturyFrenchStudies18,1/2(1989/90)respectively.Thanks totheeditorsandpublishersofthosejournalsforpermissiontousethisma- terialhere. ix .................15760$ $ACK 03-15-0610:10:14 PS PAGEix .................15760$ $ACK 03-15-0610:10:15 PS PAGEx
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