Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Special Issue: ‘La Commune n’est pas morte…’, edited by Robert St.Clair and Seth Whidden (volume 49/ 3–4; Spring-Summer 2021)

The Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies is delighted to announce the publication of a Special Issue: ‘La Commune n’est pas morte…’, edited by Robert St.Clair and Seth Whidden (volume 49 numbers 3–4; Spring-Summer 2021).

Au glorieux 18 mars! On the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, this special issue brings together over thirty scholars working across a range of disciplines, whose contributions—in the form of articles and interviews—explore the breadth, reach, and ongoing relevance of the events which transpired in Paris in the spring of 1871. Commemorating an event seen by many of its contemporaneous actors as the culminating point of a decades-long collective struggle for freedom and democracy in nineteenth-century France—an event whose name, to this day, still conjures up ideals of freedom and direct democracy, as well as the conscience-shaking act of repression with which it was put down—this special issue seeks to take stock of the past and to bring some clarity to blind spots that may have heretofore remained obscured. Its guiding questions are as follows: what kind of ideas, horizons, or caveats does the Commune name for us today? Is it (still) a blank page in the book of history? The materiality of an idea or a desire—namely that of emancipatory projects, or an egalitarian, participatory politics whose experimental form, spirit, and legacy seems to stretch throughout the last century into ours? Is it, in sum, a shockwave rippling through history, or the end of the line?

A full table of contents is below and also online at www.ncfs-journal.org.

The web site offers complete archives of the journal’s publications since it began in 1972: table of contents from every issue, abstracts of all of the articles, and all of the book reviews published online. Finally, the web site also provides complete information about all aspects of the journal’s activities.

The University of Nebraska Press has created a link for purchasing individual print copies of this special issue, for those without a subscription to the journal: https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/issue/9000025781652/nineteenth-century-french-studies-493-4

 
SPECIAL ISSUE: “La Commune n’est pas morte…” (in Project MUSE / click here to purchase a copy)
edited by Robert St.Clair and Seth Whidden

Robert St.Clair and Seth Whidden
Introduction

Robert St.Clair
The Commune, “Today”