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  • From the Editor
  • Seth Whidden

We are delighted to announce some new features in Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

The current issue includes the first of a series of invited essays. The inaugural piece is Kevin Newmark’s “Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Baudelaire’s Modernité,” a study that explores how readings of the Petits Poèmes en prose have shaped our understanding of key concepts in the field.

In the next issue (spring–summer 2016), we will launch Incipit: a dialogic format in which two colleagues debate a matter of primary concern to our field. The first instance will focus on the state of nineteenth-century French studies, the directions in which it is moving, and what is likely to be meaningful to scholars in the coming years. It is our hope that these textual exchanges will spark broader conversations, both within and beyond the pages of the journal.

Readers will of course continue to enjoy our regular submissions in each issue, where they can be sure to find important, even foundational work: in the present issue, such work can be seen in Corry Cropper’s udon noodles, Edward Nye’s myth of Deburau, Anthony Glinoer’s réfractaires, Susanna Lee’s jurors, Raisa Rexer’s take on Flaubert’s Orient, Antoine Monnier’s griffes (presented by Judd Hubert), and Erin Edgington’s fêtes galantes.

Another project reaches beyond the journal’s traditional front and back covers: starting this fall, we will publish an annual sourcebook for each year’s agrégation title in the form of an e-book compiled from selected ncfs content. Please visit our website for more information about this year’s sourcebook on La Fortune des Rougon: http://www.ncfs-journal.org/?q=Agregation.

While these initiatives vary in scope, tone, and format, they share the principles of thoughtful exploration that have guided Nineteenth-Century French Studies since its inception. Thus, the present volume—in formats old and new—reaffirms our sustained focus on rigor, insight, and passion for the finest inquiry into nineteenth-century French studies and related fields.

SW [End Page xi]

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