Discovering Francophone Ecoregions of the Long Nineteenth Century

Introduction: Discovering Industrial-Era Francophone Ecoregions

Daniel A. Finch-Race and Valentina Gosetti

1. Environment and Identity in the Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella

Christie Margrave

2. Alpine Ecology in Stendhal’s Mémoires d’un touriste

Karen F. Quandt

3. Against Nature? Vigny’s Stones

Patrick O’Donovan

4. Celtic Environments: Welsh Industrial Landscapes through French Travelogues

Heather Williams

5. Natura Magistra Vitae: Natural Pedagogy in Élisée Reclus’s Histoire D’un Ruisseau

Göran Blix

6. Progressive Waters: Memory, Narrative and Localism in Émile Zola’s L’inondation

Abbey Carrico

7. Gleaning the Tideline: Elodie La Villette’s Ecocritical Painting

Maura Coughlin

8. Text, Topos, and the Awareness of History in Frédéric Mistral’s Poème du Rhône

Dominique Bauer

9. L’écorégionalisme et le ‘sauvage’: De la figure du māhū à ‘L’après-midi d’un faune’ de Paul Gauguin

Antonio Viselli

Afterword: Ecocriticism in the Age of Dislocation?

John Charles Ryan

Biography

Daniel A. Finch-Race FHEA FRGS PhD is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Bologna. He is the recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship in partnership with Macquarie University in Sydney. His work appears in ACME, Geotema, Journal of Historical Geography, Lagoonscapes, Landscape Research, Literary Geographies, Rivista geografica italiana, Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, The Geographical Journal, and The Professional Geographer. He co-edited French Ecocriticism (Peter Lang) and Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (Liverpool University Press). He serves on three editorial boards: European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes; Modern & Contemporary France; Storicamente.

Valentina Gosetti DPhil is a poetry translator and currently Associate Professor of French at the University of Trieste. During her tenure as Associate Professor in French at the University of New England in Australia, she was the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Her work appears in Australian Journal of French Studies, Costellazioni, Forum for Modern Language Studies, French Studies Bulletin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, and Romantisme. She authored Aloysius Bertrand’s ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’ (Legenda) and Poetry in the Provinces (Liverpool University Press). She is one of the co-editors of the journal Dix-neuf and the book series on ‘Le Romantisme et après en France’ at Peter Lang. She serves as President of Women in French: Australia. 

As #TeamFinchetti, their joint work appears in cultural geographies, Human Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, L’esprit créateur, and Revue Bertrand.