Stendhal’s consumptive heroine: Lamiel and tuberculosis by Jones, S

“…<p><strong>Abstract</p></strong> <p>This article offers a close reading of Stendhal’s Lamiel, arguing that the eponymous heroine suffers from, but also manipulates the symptoms of, the quintessentially nineteenth-century disease, consumption. …”

Paul and politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, interpretation: Essays in honor of Kirster Stendhal by King, N

“Jeune fille qui ne pleure pas son oiseau mort”: female puberty in Stendhal's Lamiel by Jones, S

“…This article is a close reading of the fausse phthisie ruse in Stendhal's Lamiel. It examines the scene in the 1840 version of the manuscript in which Lamiel and Doctor Sansfin fake the symptoms of tuberculosis using the blood of a dead bird. …”

Astolphe de Custine and the querelle d'Olivier: gossip in restoration high society by Counter, A

“…This article explores the relationship between gossip and sexuality in early nineteenth-century France, through consideration of the biography of Astolphe de Custine and the novels of the so-called querelle d'Olivier: Madame de Duras's Olivier, ou le secret (c. 1821); Henri de Latouche's Olivier (1826); and Stendhal's Armance (1827). These three romans à clé were inspired, at least in part, by two events in Custine's life: his breaking of an engagement to Mme de Duras's daughter Clara in 1818, and his ‘outing’ as a homosexual in 1824, when he was brutally beaten for having propositioned a guardsman. …”