“Moby-Dick”

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”

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“Comic Irony and Contradiction in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five”

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Isostructural Potassium and Thallium Salts of Sterically Crowded Thio‐ and Selenophenols: A Structural and Computational Study

Because of their similar cationic radii, potassium and thallium(I) compounds are usually regarded as closely related. Homologous molecular species containing either K+ or Tl+ are very rare, however. We have synthesized potassium and thallium salts MEAr* [M, E = K, S (2a); K, Se (2b); Tl, S (3a); Tl, Se (3b); Ar* = 2,6-Trip2C6H3, Trip = 2,4,6-iPr3C6H2] derived from terphenyl-substituted thio- and selenophenols. In the solid-state structures of dimeric 2a, 2b, 3a, and 3b additional metal-ηn–π-arene interactions to the flanking arms of the terphenyl substituents of different hapticity n are observed. Remarkably, the homologous potassium and thallium complexes 2b and 3b crystallize in isomorpho…

“Poe and Popular Culture”

« The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne »

Ambident PCN Heterocycles: N- and P-Phosphanylation of Lithium 1,3-Benzazaphospholides

Synthetic and structural aspects of the phosphanylation of 1,3-benzazaphospholides 1(Li), ambident benzofused azaphosphacyclopentadienides, are presented. The unusual properties of phospholyl-1,3,2-diazaphospholes inspired us to study the coupling of 1(Li) with chlorodiazaphospholene 2, which led to the N-substituted product 3. Reaction of 1(Li) with chlorodiphenyl- and chlorodicyclohexylphosphane likewise gave N-phosphanylbenzazaphospholes 4 and 5, whereas with the more bulky di-tert-butyl- and di-1-adamantylchlorophosphanes, the diphosphanes 6 and 7 are obtained; in the case of 7 they are isolated as a dimeric LiCl(THF) adduct. Structural information was provided by single-crystal X-ray d…

“The Letters of Herman Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne”

Wonders of the World: World of Man

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Aryldimethylsilyl Modified Hypersilanes

Aryldimethylsilyl-substituted hypersilanes ArSiMe2Hyp [Hyp =Si(SiMe3)3; Ar = Mes (3a), Bph (3b), Mph (3c), Pph (3d), Tph (3e); Dpp (3f); with Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2, Bph = 2-PhC6H4, Mph = 2-MesC6H4, Pph = 2′,3′,4′,5′,6′-pentamethylbiphenyl2-yl, Tph = 2′,4′,6′-triisopropylbiphenyl-2-yl and Dpp = 2,6-Ph2C6H3] have been synthesized by a multi-step reaction starting from the readily available starting materials ArI and (thf)xKHyp. For this purpose the aryl iodides were first converted into the lithium aryls by lithium-halogen exchange with n-butyl lithium. A salt-metathesis reaction with SiMe2Cl2 gave the corresponding arylchlorodimethylsilanes (2a–e) in excellent yields. Finally, reaction of 2a–e…

“Excess and Irony in Transatlantic Cable Poetry”

The completion of the first successful transatlantic telegraph link in August 1858 was a major technological triumph which sparked an extreme reaction among the American public. Not only was the laying of the cable one of the most ambitious and costly engineering projects of the nineteenth century, but the celebrations in the United States which ensued in the weeks following the establishment of this instantaneous communications link between Europe and America were unprecedented and may well ...

“The Civil War and the Call for Southern Literature”

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Moby-Dick ou le Cachalot

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“A Partial ‘Reassurance of Fratricide’: Redefining National Unity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

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Compte rendu de "The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature" de Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 130 (4e trimestre 2011)

“The Great Gatsby and the American Dream”

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Compte rendu de "Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume I, 1819-1851" de Hershel Parker. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 74 (octobre 1997)

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Introduction “‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter” A one-day conference on Literary Controversyin Great Britain and the United States (1800-1900)’

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“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand': Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish and American National Unity in 1858.”

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Compte rendu de "The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume I: 1590-1820," ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 62 (novembre 1994)

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L’Eau : Source de vie

“Hysteria and the Normal Unconscious: Dual Natures in Gertrude Stein’s Melanctha”

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Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly

Putnam’s Monthly (1853-1857) was one of the best literary and general interest magazines in antebellum America. Besides its high quality, what made the New York-based magazine stand out was its commitment to publishing American writers and focusing on American themes at a time when, with no reliable international copyright protection in place, many periodicals in the United States were in the habit of reprinting the works of foreign (primarily British) authors, sometimes without payment. However, despite its optimistic literary nationalism, Putnam’s Monthly expressed uncertainty about the quality of contemporary American literature and, indeed, about the capacity of American society to enco…

“Moby-Dick and the Spirit of Revolution”

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“The Deception of Reality: Blackening the Woman in Melville’s Mardi”

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Template-controlled assembly of ditopic catechol phosphines: a strategy for the generation of complexes of bidentate phosphines with different bite angles.

A rational approach to the synthesis of heterobi- or -trimetallic complexes based upon self-assembly of a flexible ditopic catechol-phosphine ligand with [(cod)PdCl(2)] and simple metal halides such as GaCl(3), BiCl(3), SnCl(4), or ZrCl(4) is described. All products were characterized by spectroscopic and analytical data and single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies. The molecular structures can be described in terms of cis-configured palladium complexes with supramolecular bisphosphine ligands that are formed by the assembly of two phosphine catecholate fragments on a main group/transition metal template. Of particular interest are the distinct decreases in P-Pd-P bite angles and P...P dist…

“The Leisure Class Prison: The Awakening and the Economic Theories ofThornstein Veblen”

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« Le Câble transatlantique de 1858 et ses représentations dans la presse populaire »

Compte rendu de "F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Aestheticism: His Unacknowledged Debt to Walter Pater" de Theodora Tsimpouki. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 58 (novembre 1993)

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“Varying Energies of Work: Industrial Labor and Artisanal Labor in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale”

“Out-of-Kilter Icons, Historical Distortions and Horizon Figures in The Scarlet Letter; or, A Troubled America in a Bell Jar”

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“An American Quest for Truth in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Herman Melville’s Mardi: and A Voyage Thither”

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“Living and Writing on the Edge: Edgar Allan Poe and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’”

“‘As monumental bronze unchanged his look’: Washington Irving’s ‘Philip of Pokanoket’”

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Marc Midon - Le Démon de l'allusion : Figures miltoniennes dans "L'Escroc" de Melville

Sterically crowded triazenides as novel ancillary ligands in copper chemistry

Abstract We have synthesized copper salts MN3RR′ derived from the biphenyl- or m-terphenyl-substituted triazenes Tph2N3H (1a) and Dmp(Tph)N3H (1b) (Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3 with Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2; Tph = 2-TripC6H4 with Trip = 2,4,6-i-Pr3C6H2). The homoleptic copper triazenide [CuN3Tph2] (2a) was obtained in high yield from the metallation of 1a with mesityl copper in n-heptane, while the complex [CuN3(Dmp)Tph] (2b) was generated by the same method in situ only. Reaction of 2a with triphenylphosphane gave the 2:1 adduct [CuN3Tph2(PPh3)2] (3a), regardless of the used complex/donor ratio, while reaction of 2a or 2b with a stochiometric amount of t-butylisonitrile afforded the 1:1 adducts [Tph2N3Cu…

“Much Ado About Something: Nineteenth-Century American Writers and the Atlantic Cable”

Cet article décrit et analyse les réactions de plusieurs grands auteurs américains (Thoreau, Longfellow, Irving, Melville, Whittier, Whitman et Emerson) au succès en 1858 du premier lien télégraphique transatlantique entre les États-Unis et l’Europe. Ces réponses à cet exploit technologique apparaissaient dans des journaux privés, des lettres, des éditoriaux et des notes marginales; elles étaient parfois incorporées dans des œuvres littéraires. Dans presque tous les cas, les réactions peuvent...

“Displaced Representation and Nationalistic Appropriation: Illustrating the Atlantic Cable Project of 1858”

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“Indian Policy and the Political Paralysis of the 1850s”

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“‘As monumental bronze unchanged his look’: Washington Irving’s ‘Philip of Pokanoket’ (Or the Portrait of an American Hero of a Lost Cause)”

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“Narrative Thunder; or, The Double Axes of Poetic Romanticism in ‘The LightningRod Man’”

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“‘an inconsistency so extreme’: The Confidence-Man; or, The Last Word on Romantic Authorial Freedom?”

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Compte rendu de "Eclats de voix : crises en représentation dans la littérature nord-américaine," ed. Christine Raguet-Bouvart. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 67 (janvier 1996)

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Ambident Reactivity of P˭CH‒N‒Heterocycles: Lithiation and Substitution Sites

Abstract Benzofused 1H-1,3-azaphospholes are lithiated at the N-atom by tBuLi but phosphinylation takes place at either the N- or the P-atom. Smaller chlorophosphines react at nitrogen, bulkier react at phosphorus. Substituents at C2 promote the latter mode. N-Substituted 2H-1,3-benzazaphospholes undergo CH-metalation or addition at the P˭C bond, depending on the conditions, and allow access to 2-functionally substituted benzazaphospholes or their 2,3-dihydro derivatives, new σ2P,X or σ3P,X hybrid ligands (X=O,P).

Homoleptic heavy alkaline Earth and europium triazenides.

The sigma-bond metathesis reaction between PhSiH(3) and the heteroleptic metal pentafluorophenyl compounds [Dmp(Tph)N(3)MC(6)F(5)(thf)(n)] (Dmp = 2,6-Mes(2)C(6)H(3) with Mes = 2,4,6-Me(3)C(6)H(2); Tph = 2-TripC(6)H(4) with Trip = 2,4,6-(i)Pr(3)C(6)H(2); n = 1, 2; M = Sr, Ba, Eu) supported by sterically crowded, biphenyl- and terphenyl-substituented triazenido ligands afforded the first homoleptic stontium, barium, and europium triazenides [M{N(3)Dmp(Tph)}(2)] {M = Sr (2), Ba (4), Eu (5)}. Crystallization of 2 from an n-heptane/1,2-dimethoxyethane mixture gave the complex [Sr{N(3)Dmp(Tph)}(2)(dme)] (3). All new compounds have been characterized by (1)H and (13)C NMR spectroscopy (not 5), ele…

Formation of novel T-shaped NNN ligands via rare-earth metal-mediated Si-H activation.

Reactions of silylamides [Ln{N(SiHMe2)2}3(thf)2] with sterically crowded terphenylamine DmpNH2 (Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3 with Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2) afforded via a template reaction the formation of a new tridentate ligand, and derived complexes of composition [LnN{SiMe2N(Dmp)}2] (Ln = Ce, Pr) were obtained. Usage of the even more bulky amine Ar*NH2 (Ar* = 2,6-Trip2C6H3 with Trip = 2,4,6-iPr3C6H2) yielded the free protonated ligand NH{SiMe2NH(Ar*)}2.

“The Transatlantic Cable in Popular Poetry”

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“Emerson's Napoleon; or, the French Emperor as (American) Democrat and Businessman”

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Rare-earth metal bis(tetramethylaluminate) complexes supported by a sterically crowded triazenido ligand

Complexes [NNN]Ln(AlMe(4))(2) (Ln = Y, La, Nd, Lu) bearing the sterically demanding aryl-substituted triazenido ligand [(Tph)(2)N(3)] (Tph = [2-(2,4,6-iPr(3)C(6)H(2))C(6)H(4)]) can be obtained from homoleptic complexes Ln(AlMe(4))(3) in moderate yields, both via protonolysis with [(Tph)(2)N(3)]H and a salt metathesis reaction pathway utilizing [(Tph)(2)N(3)]K. In the solid state the Y and Lu derivatives are isostructural, with both tetramethylaluminate groups coordinated in an eta(2) fashion, while one of the [AlMe(4)] ligands of the Nd derivative features a distorted eta(2) coordination mode. Due to the high affinity of the triazenido ligand toward the more Lewis-acidic and harder aluminiu…

“The Problem of Imagining the National Community in Nineteenth-Century America; or, How the Historical Heritage Keeps Getting in the Way”

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“Literary—Manifest—Destiny or, Manifest Destiny and the Literary Manifests of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman”

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"Inconsistency, Romanticism and Realism in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man"

« Les élections présidentielles américaines de 2008 »

“Moby-Dick, un classique américain”

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Repères de civilisation : Grande-Bretagne, Etats-Unis

International audience; Il s’agit d’un manuel d’initiation à l’histoire et aux institutions britanniques et américaines avec des courts résumés en français. Comprenant 239 pages, il est destiné aux étudiants de terminale, des classes préparatoires et de première année à l’université. J’étais responsable de la partie américaine de l’ouvrage, élaboré en collaboration avec Adrian Park (pour la partie britannique), Jean Pouvelle (pour les résumés en français) et Daniel Casanave (pour les illustrations).

“Ralph Waldo Emerson's Intellectual Declaration of Independence”

“The View from Without: Madness and the Other in the Narrators of ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Cask of Amontillado.’”

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Compe rendu de "Amistad : les mutins de la liberté" de Bernard Vincent. Les Langues modernes 4 (novembre-décembre 1998-janvier 1999)

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“Amasa Delano and Christopher Columbus: Meeting the Other with Innocenceand Arrogance in Herman Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’”

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Compte rendu de "Henry David Thoreau : paradoxes d’excentrique" de Michel Granger. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 84 (mars 2000)

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“Hysteria and the Normal Unconscious: Dual Natures in Gertrude Stein’s‘Melanctha’”

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"'unlimn’d they disappear': The Ghostly Presence of Native Americans in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass"

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"Edouard Marsoin : Melville et l'usage des plaisirs"

“The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Emerson’s ‘The American Scholar’”

This article studies the nationalistic rhetoric in Emerson’s “The American Scholar.” It argues that if the current critical tendency to downplay the essay’s nationalism can be seen as a welcome corrective to certain traditional readings, the address, in fact, includes a significant presence of embedded nationalistic rhetoric that has largely been ignored. The study focuses on Emerson ’s incorporation of the language of expansionism and imperialism, his adoption of an ahistorical perspective and his use of the vocabulary of action, heroism and Anglo-Saxonism to show that both the address’s nationalistic rhetoric and Emerson ’s complicity in the nationalistic ideology of his time are more pro…

Antoine Traisnel, Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition

You can’t judge a book by its cover. Or so they say. But the cover of Antoine Traisnel’s Capture: American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition is striking and, one is tempted to say, captivating. And so is the book. The cover features colorful images of various birds—such as the ruby-throated hummingbird, the tufted coquette or the buff-tailed sicklebill—taken from one of the most impressive plates in Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature) and interlaced on ...

Halogenomercury Salts of Sterically Crowded Triazenides - Convenient Starting Materials for Redox-Transmetallation Reactions

Diaryl-substituted triazenides Ar(Ar′)N3HgX [Ar/Ar′ = Dmp/Mph, X = Cl (2a), Br (3a), I (4a); Ar/Ar′ = Dmp/Tph, X = Cl (2b), I (4b) with Mph = 2-MesC6H4, Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2, Tph = 2′,4′,6′-triisopropylbiphenyl-2-yl and Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3] were synthesized by salt-metathesis reactions in ethyl ether from the readily available starting materials Ar(Ar′)N3Li and HgX2. These compounds may be used for redox-transmetallation reactions with rare-earth or alkaline earth metals. Thus, reaction of 4b or 2b with magnesium or ytterbium in tetrahydrofuran afforded the triazenides Dmp(Tph)N3MX(thf) (5b: M = Mg, X = I; 6b: M = Yb, X = Cl) in good yield. All new compounds were characterized by melting poin…

Compte rendu de "The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume II: Prose Writing, 1820-1865," ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 67 (janvier 1996)

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Isostructural potassium and thallium salts of sterically crowded triazenes: a structural and computational study.

Because of their similar cationic radii, potassium and thallium(I) compounds are usually regarded as closely related. Homologous molecular species containing either K(+) or Tl(+) are very rare, however. We have synthesized potassium and thallium salts MN3RR' derived from the biphenyl- or terphenyl-substituted triazenes Tph2N3H (1a), Dmp(Mph)N3H (1b), Dmp(Tph)N3H (1c), and (Me4Ter)2N3H (1d) (Dmp=2,6-Mes 2C6H3 with Mes=2,4,6-Me3C6H2; Me4Ter=2,6-(3,5-Me2C6H3)2C6H3; Mph=2-MesC6H4; Tph=2-TripC6H4 with Trip=2,4,6-(i)Pr3C6H2). The potassium complexes 2a- d were obtained in almost quantitative yield from the reaction of 1a- d with potassium metal in n-heptane. Metalation of 1a- d with TlOEt afforde…

“Homosexuality and the Melville Revival: Reflections on the Contribution ofMardi: and A Voyage Thither”

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“Redburn and the Suppression of Patrician Fantasy”

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“Editing Out the Narrator: George Roy Hill’s Adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five”

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“The Reassurance—and the Horror—of Fratricide: Legitimacy and the Redefinition of National Unity in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

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“John Greenleaf Whittier”

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Moby-Dick, Pierre ou les Ambiguïtés

Silver(I), Copper(I) and Copper(II) Complex of the New N,Se-Chelate Ligand 2-Phenylselenomethyl-1H-benzimidazole: Electrochemistry and Structure

Abstract. 2-Phenylselenomethyl-1H-benzimidazole (psbi) can form complexes in 2:1 ratio with coinage metal ions. Crystal structure analysis revealed a flattened metal coordination for [AgI(psbi)2](BF4) (1), approaching a distorted planar arrangement with weak Ag-Se bonds (d > 2.9 A) and confirmed as energy minimum by DFT calculations. The typical Jahn-Teller system [CuII(psbi)2Cl2] (2) exhibits a planar CuN2Cl2 core with weak Se---Cu---Se axial ligation (3.2944(8) A Cu--Se distance). The oxygen-sensitive compound [CuI(psbi)2](BF4) (3) exhibits electrochemically reversible oxidation in contrast to the silver(I) analogue 1.

“The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Emerson's ‘The American Scholar.'”

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“Art and the Margins of Reality in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’”

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Taïpi, Omou, Mardi [Œuvres, I] de Herman Melville

Time Heals All Wounds: Resisting the Authority of History in the Concepts of Nation and Nationalism

“The Margins of America and the Margins of Reality: Edgar Allan Poe and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’”

“Manifest Destiny and Melville’s Moby-Dick; or Enlightenment Universalism andAggressive Nineteenth-Century Expansionism in a National Text”

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Strukturanalytische Untersuchungen P-substituierter 1,3,2-Diazaphospholidine

2-Diphenylphosphanyl-1,3,2-diazaphospholidines were prepared via metathesis from 2-chloro-1,3,2-diazaphospholidines and LiPPh2. For some of the products, symmetrisation to tetraphenyldiphosphane and 2,2′-bis-1,3,2-diazaphospholidinyls was observed. Most of the derivatives were characterised by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, which showed that all compounds studied feature elongated exocyclic P–Cl or P–P-bonds, respectively. The extent of this bond lengthening is in the P-phosphanyl-substituted species similar and in the P-chloro-derivatives less pronounced than in corresponding CC-unsaturated 1,3,2-diazaphospholenes. Structure correlation involving comparison of exocyclic P–X and endocycl…

The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam's Monthly

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Édouard Marsoin, Melville et l’usage des plaisirs.

Avec Melville et l’usage des plaisirs, Edouard Marsoin fait une contribution innovante et importante a la critique d’un des auteurs americains majeurs du dix-neuvieme siecle. Innovante parce que le theme du plaisir n’est pas souvent associe a Herman Melville, dont la fiction, pour un grand nombre de lecteurs, comme le rappelle Marsoin, « serait ‘noire’, pessimiste et misanthrope » (12) — meme s’il y a depuis longtemps des etudes qui montrent que cette image est reductrice. Et importante parc...

“The Divine Magnet: Melville’s Writings to and about Hawthorne”

Compte rendu de "Charles Brockden Brown. La part du doute" de Marc Amfreville. Transatlantica [online], (1 | 2003), URL : http://transatlantica.revues.org/711

Compte rendu de : Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic : Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Depuis une bonne vingtaine d’années, les études sur le gothique dans la littérature américaine foisonnent, transformant un genre jusque-là parfois marginalisé dans les universités en un champ de recherche important. Avec The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic?: Gender and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, professeur à l’Université de Lausanne, apporte une contribution innovante à ce domaine.

“Anatomizing America: Science and the Rhetoric of Literary Nationalism in theNineteenth Century”

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Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas

Cet ouvrage rassemble une trentaine d'articles sur littérature et culture ethniques aux Etats-Unis et en Europe dans une perspective comparatiste.

2-Organoselenomethyl-1H-benzimidazole Complexes of Copper(II) and Copper(I)

Structurally characterized 2-methylselenomethyl-1H-benzimidazole (msbi) is shown to form complexes in 2:1 ratio with copper(II). Whereas the central cation [Cu(msbi)2Cl]+ = 1+ in [Cu(msbi)2Cl]Cl·2MeOH crystallizes in an approximately mixed square-pyramidal/trigonal-bipyramidal structure (τ = 0.52) with the second and third row atoms chlorine and selenium in the equatorial plane, the related [Cu(msbi)2(MeOH)](BF4)2 = [2](BF4)2 exhibits a closer to square-pyramidal arrangement with τ = 0.36 for that complex dication 22+. In both cases, the Cu–N bonds are short at about 1.94 A, whereas the Cu–Se distances vary between 2.62 A for 1+ and ca. 2.54 A for 22+. Slight differences between the Jahn–Te…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

« Norton Critical Edition » du roman de Melville ; cette édition comprend une « édition critique » du texte du roman, de nombreuses notes, une sélection de textes sur les sources et le contexte historique ainsi que des articles critiques.

“Creating a National Heritage, Denying a National Crisis: The Atlantic Cable Celebrations and Atlantic Cable Poetry”

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Compte rendu de "Voix Ethniques, Volume II / Ethnic Voices II," ed. Claudine Raynaud. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 74 (octobre 1997)

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“Creating a National Heritage, Denying a National Crisis: The Atlantic CableCelebrations and Atlantic Cable Poetry”

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“Thoughts on the Origins and Significance of the American Civil War on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial of the Outbreak of the Bloodiest Conflict in the History of the United States”

« La Guerre de Sécession, 150 ans après »

“Much Ado About Something: American Writers and the Atlantic Cable of 1858”

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“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…

Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Novel Azamacrocyclic LnIII, CuII, FeIII, and SrII Complexes and Conformational Analysis of the Ligands

Hexaalkoxy-substituted azamacrocyclic metal complexes 1 · MXn [MXn = FeCl3, CuCl2, SrCl2, Ln(NO3)3; Ln = La, Pr, Eu, Ho, Er] with various chain lengths were prepared by a convergent approach using 1,2-bisalkoxy-4,5-diamines 3 and 4-alkoxy-pyridine-2,6-dicarbaldehydes 4 as key building blocks for template-assisted cyclocondensation. Metal complexes 1 · MXn were considered as potential metallomesogens. However, differential scanning calorimetry and optical polarizing microscopy of 1 · MXn did not reveal any mesomorphism. The magnetic susceptibility shows deviation from Curie-like behavior. Due to ligand field effects the effective magnetic moments are a function of the temperature. In order t…

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Ambiguous Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”

Abstract Longfellow’s Evangeline was hailed as a great and distinctively American work when it appeared in 1847, and the poem’s use of North American history was a key element in its favourable reception. This use of history, however, is ambiguous and complex. The epic continues, first of all, in a long tradition of romanticized retellings of the heart-rending story of the Acadians. But the work also engages in a dual-level dialogue with both the mid-eighteenth-century history of the Acadians, who are pitied, without inciting indignation, and the contemporary history of midnineteenth-century America, whose expansionism it both implicitly celebrates and criticizes. Resume Evangeline, le poem…

“Narrative Thunder; or, The Double Axes of Poetic Romanticism in ‘The Lightning Rod Man’”

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Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines (108)

Numéro de l'RFEA sur Walt Whitman, commémorant le 150e anniversaire de la publication de la première édition de Leaves of Grass.

“Keeping Humans Out of the Picture: The (Almost) Pristine Wilderness of The Last of the Mohicans”

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“Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Intellectual Declaration of Independence”

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Compte rendu de "Le Sentier des larmes : le grand exil des Indiens cherokees" de Bernard Vincent. Etudes anglaises 57 (avril-juin 2004)

Compte rendu de "La Réinvention de Shakespeare sur la scène littéraire américaine" de Ronan Ludot-Vlasak. Transatlantica [online] (1 | 2015), URL: http://transatlantica.revues.org/7283

“L’Absence d’amour : L’Europe du Sud et ses représentations dans ‘The Pit andthe Pendulum’ et ‘The Cask of Amontillado.’”

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Herman Melville: “The Confidence-Man”

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Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...

“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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Compte rendu de "Gertrude Stein : le « sourire grammatical » de Claude Grimal. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 75 (janvier 1998)

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« The 2016 American Presidential Election »

Revue Textimage numéro 7 - Illustration et discours scientifiques : une perspective historique

International audience; Recueil de onze articles sur les illustrations scientifiques du quinzième siècle à nos jours.

An unsolvated erbium organyl: (2,4,6,2′′,4′′,6′′-hexamethyl-1,1′:3′;1′′-terphenyl-2′-yl)bis(methylcyclopentadienyl)erbium(III)

The title compound, [Er(Dmp)(C5H4Me)2] (Dmp = 2,6-Mes2C6H3, with Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2) or [Er(C6H7)2(C24H25)], was obtained by the reaction of LiDmp with Er(C5H4Me)3. The Er atom is η5-coordinated by two methyl­cyclo­penta­dienyl ligands (average Er⋯centroid distance = 2.341 A) and η1-coordinated by the ipso-C atom of the aryl substituent [Er—C = 2.434 (4) A]. An additional π-arene contact with one of the Mes groups [Er⋯C = 3.077 (4) A] gives rise to the pyramidalization of the metal-atom environment.

A sterically crowded triazene: 1,3-bis(3,5,3′′,5′′-tetramethyl-1,1′:3′;1′′-terphenyl-2′-yl)triazene

A tetranuclear organorhenium(i) complex of the 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane radical anion, TCNQF4˙−

The radical complex {(mu(4)-TCNQF4)[Re(CO)(3)(bpy)](4)}(PF(6))(3), as prepared and isolated from the reaction between TCNQF4 and [Re(CO)(3)(bpy)(MeOH)](PF(6)), was studied electrochemically and by IR vibrational spectroscopy, UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectroscopy, and by EPR at 9.5, 190 and 285 GHz. The isotropic g factor of 2.0058, the detectable g anisotropy, and the (185,187)Re EPR hyperfine coupling of 0.95 mT for four equivalent metal nuclei support predominant, but not exclusive, spin localisation at the bridging ligand. Nitrile and metal carbonyl stretching frequencies as well as the typically structured near infrared absorption band lend further support to (TCNQF4 (-))(Re(I))(4) as the…

Water: The Essence of Life

International audience; Livre illustré de 192 pages sur l’eau qui, visant un public de non-spécialistes, traite tous les aspects de l’eau dans la nature et par rapport à l’homme. La présentation du sujet touche aux domaines scientifique, écologique, politique, culturel et esthétique.

Mardi

Edition critique de Mardi de Herman Melville. [Coresponsable de cette édition ; collaboration à l’élaboration de la notice, des notes et du tableau des îles de Mardi.]

“American Literary Nationalism”

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Compte rendu de "Thornton Wilder: A Nostalgia for the Antique" de Mary Koutsoudaki. Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 55 (février 1993)

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Heterotetranuclear Complexes of Reduced and Non-reduced Bridging 1,2,4,5-Tetrazine Ligands with 1,1′-Bis(diphenylphosphanyl)-ferrocene-copper(I)

The complexes {(μ-bptz)[Cu(dppf)]2}(BF4)2 [(1)(BF4)2] [bptz = 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine, dppf = 1,1′-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)ferrocene] and {(μ-bpztz)[Cu(dppf)]2}(PF6)2 [(2)(PF6)2] [bpztz = 3,6-bis(2-pyrazinyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine] contain two redox-active heterodinuclear FeIICuI moieties, bridged by a redox-active ligand. A crystal structure determination of (1)(BF4)2·2CH2Cl2 confirms the non-reduced aromatic nature of the bridge, in contrast to previous results on dicopper(I) complexes of bptz. Facile one-electron reduction produces the radical complexes {(μ-bptz)[Cu(dppf)]2}+ (1+) and {(μ-bpztz)[Cu(dppf)]2}+ (2+), which could be isolated [as (1)(BF4)] and studied by variable freq…

“Allochronic Views of Native Americans; or, Vanished Vanishing Indians in The Last of the Mohicans”

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757, first published in 1826, offers an archetypal example, perhaps the archetypal example, of a literary expression of the trope of the Vanishing Indian. This theme is present in many works of nineteenth-century American literature that include Native Americans as their subjects, but Cooper’s romance, whose very title evokes the disappearance of an entire tribe, takes the sad fate of North America’s indigenous peoples as one o...