ELIZABETH EMERY Professor of French Dept. of Modern

ELIZABETH EMERY
Professor of French
Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Montclair State University
(973) 655-4452
E-mail: [email protected]
Publication List (Updated December 2015)
Books:
En toute intimité...Quand la presse people de la Belle Epoque s’invitait chez les célébrités. Paris: Parigramme, 2015
Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz. Essay anthology coedited with Kathryn A. Duys and
Laurie Postlewate. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015.
Medievalism: Key Critical Terms. Essay anthology coedited with Richard Utz. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner. Co-translated with C. J. T. Talar. Washington, DC: Catholic University of
America Press, 2015.
Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality. Aldershot: Ashgate
Press, 2012.
“Martyr to the Truth”: The Autobiography of Joseph Turmel. A Translation of Joseph Turmel’s Comment j’ai donné congé aux dogmes and
Comme l’église romaine m’a donné congé (first volume translated with C. J. T. Talar). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2012.
Cahier Calin. Essays in Honor of William Calin. Edited essay anthology (with Richard Utz). Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in
Medievalism, 2011.
The Modernist as Philosopher. Selected Writings of Marcel Hébert. Co-translated with C. J. T. Talar. Washington, DC: Catholic
University of America Press, 2011.
Medieval Saints in Late Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Edited essay anthology (with Laurie Postlewate). Jefferson, NC:
McFarland Press, 2004.
Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in Fin-de-Siècle France (with Laura Morowitz). London: Ashgate Press, 2003.
Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-Siècle French Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Articles and Essays:
“Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée’s Photo‐Interviews: Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press.”
Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media. Ed. Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor.
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 157-66.
“Retracer le Moyen Âge: Proust et ses « dessins médiévaux ».” Proust et les Moyen Age. Ed. Sophie Duval et Miren Laccasagne.
Paris: Hermann, 2015. 295-313.
“Medieval Times: Tournaments and Jousting in Twenty-first Century North America.” Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary
Culture. Ed. Gail Ashton. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 67-77.
“Le Berceau de la littérature française: Medieval Storytelling as Child’s Play in Nineteenth-Century France.” Telling the Story in the
Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz . Ed. Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. 219-35.
“Introduction” (with Kathryn A. Duys and Laurie Postlewate). Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge
Vitz (ed. Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. 1-10.
“Introduction” (with C. J. T. Talar). Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner. Co-translated with C. J. T. Talar.
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015. xxi-xlvi.
“Louisiana-Style Naturalism? Science, Fiction, and Commerce in Duck Dynasty and Swamp People.” Excavatio XXIV (2014): np.
“Medievalism in the Margins: Paratexts and the Packaging of Medieval French Literature.” Studies in Medievalism XXIV (2015):
1-9.
“Making Medievalism: A Critical Overview” (with Richard Utz). Medievalism: Key Critical Terms. Woodbridge: Boydell &
Brewer, 2014. 1-10.
“Le visible et l’invisible: Cluny dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle.” Cluny après Cluny: Constructions, reconstructions,
commémorations, 1790-2010. Actes du colloque Cluny 2010. Ed. Didier Méhu. Rennes: Presses universitaires de
Rennes, 2013. 339-52.
“Pierre Loti’s ‘Memory’ of the Middle Ages: Feasting on the Gothic.” Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture, ed. Elma
Brenner, Meredith Cohen, and Mary Franklin-Brown. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2013. 279-98.
“The Corporate Gothic of New York’s Woolworth Building: The Function of Form in the Original ‘Cathedral of
Commerce.’” Studies in Medievalism XXII (Corporate Medievalisms): 2013. 1-10.
“Preface.” Realism Revisited (with Lloyd Hughes Davies). Romance Studies 30.3-4 (July 2012): 2.
“Observing One’s Own Dissection: Medical Inquiry and Writer Confidences in Fin-de-siècle French Periodicals.” The South
Central Review 29.3 (2012): 93-109.
“Staging La Fête de Fous et de l'âne in 1898: A Commemoration of the Literary Middle Ages (Villon, Hugo, Cabarets).” Mapping
Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture. Ed. Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts. Faux titre
369. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 59-79.
“Albert Robida, Medieval Publicist.” Cahier Calin. Essays in Honor of William Calin. Ed. Richard Utz and Elizabeth Emery.
Kalamazoo, MI: Studies in Medievalism, 2011.
“Preface.” Storytelling II. Special issue of Romance Studies 28.4 (November 2010): 221-22.
“Preface.” Storytelling I. Special issue of Romance Studies 28.3 (July 2010): 143.
“Colonial Gothic: The Medievalism of America’s ‘National’ Cathedrals.” Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of the
Middle Ages Outside Europe. Ed. Nadia Altschul and Kathleen Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
237-64.
“Zola and the Religion of Science.” Book chapter of Romancing the Cathedral reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism
(vol. 219). Ed. Larry Trudeau. New York: Gale Group, 2009. 45-88.
“Dornac's ‘At Home’ Photographs, Relics of French History.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 36 (2008)
[2009]: 209-24.
“Misunderstood Symbolism: Rereading the Subjective Objects of Montesquiou’s First Maison d’un artiste.” Symbolist Objects:
Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin-de-Siècle. Ed. Claire O’Mahoney. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009. 18-43.
“The Martyred Cathedral: American Interpretations of Notre-Dame de Reims after the First World War.” Medieval Art and
Architecture after the Middle Ages. Ed. Alyce Jordan and Janet Marquardt. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press,
2009. 312-39.
“Medievalism and the Middle Ages.” Studies in Medievalism 17 (2009). 77-91.
“The Soul of Arches. Huysmans and the Medieval Church.” Book chapter of Romancing the Cathedral reprinted in TwentiethCentury Literature Criticism (vol. 212). Ed. Tom Schoenberg. New York: Gale Group, 2008. 89-128.
“Aux mères heureuses: Zola’s Compassion for Working Mothers.” Excavatio XXIII:1-2 (2008): 169-82.
“Cédez le Passage: A Chronicle of Travel in France with a Disability.” Worlds Apart: Disability and Foreign Language Learning.
Ed. Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Ian Sutherland. New Haven, Yale University Press: 2008. 181-201.
“Naturalism on Stage: The Performance and Reception of Zola’s Messidor.” Novel Stages: Drama and the Novel in NineteenthCentury France. Ed. Susan McCready and Pratima Prasad. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 126-54.
“Art as Passion in Anatole France’s Le Lys Rouge.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 35:3-4 (2007): 129-40.
“From Cabaret to Lecture Hall: Medieval Song as Cultural Memory in the Performances of Yvette Guilbert.” Studies in
Medievalism 15 (2007): 3-25.
“‘Resuscitating’ Medieval Literature in New York and Paris: La Femme que Nostre-Dame garda d’estre arse at Yvette Guilbert’s
School of Theatre, 1919-1924.” Cultural Performances in Medieval France. Ed. Eglal Doss-Quinby, Roberta L. Krueger,
and E. Jane Burns. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2007. 265-78.
“Zola et les appétis ambigus de Rome.” Zola et le naturalisme en Europe et aux Amériques: Contaminations et influences d’un genre. Ed.
Anna Gural-Migdal and Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. 111-30.
Preface. Elle si fit maternelle: Motherhood in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart. By Susan S. Hennessy. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen
Press, 2006. i-vi.
“Protecting the Past: Albert Robida and the Vieux Paris Exhibit at the 1900 World’s Fair.” The Journal of European Studies 35
(March 2005): 87-101.
“From the Living Room to the Museum and Back Again: The Collection and Display of Medieval Art in the Fin de Siècle”
(with Laura Morowitz), Oxford Journal of the History of Collecting 16:2 (2004): 285-309.
Introduction. Medieval Saints in Late Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland Press, 2004. 1-10.
“The Golden Legend in the Fin de Siècle: Zola’s Le Rêve and its Reception.” Medieval Saints in Late Nineteenth-Century French
Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2004. 83-118.
Conclusion. Medieval Saints in Late Nineteenth-Century French Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Emery and Laurie Postlewate. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland Press, 2004. 223-35.
“Le génie, c’est une névrose!: Genius and Society in the Novels of Goncourt and Zola.” Excavatio XVI (2002): 258-73.
“Ecrire la fin: Sainte Lydwine de Schiedam de J.-K. Huysmans.” Les Cahiers Naturalistes 75 (September 2001): 203-14.
“The ‘Truth’ About the Middle Ages: La Revue des Deux Mondes and Late Nineteenth-Century French Medievalism.” The Quest
for the “Real” Middle Ages. Ed. Clare A. Simmons. London: Frank Cass, 2001. 99-114.
“The Power of the Pen: Emile Zola Takes on the Sacré-Coeur Basilica.” The Documentary Impulse and French Literature. French
Literature Studies 28 (2001): 65-77.
“J.-K. Huysmans, Medievalist.” Modern Language Studies 30.2 (2000). 119-31.
“The Nineteenth-Century Struggle for the Soul of Lourdes: A Modern Pilgrimage.” The Year’s Work in Medievalism 1999
(2000).103-14.
“The ‘Truth’ About the Middle Ages: La Revue des Deux Mondes and Late Nineteenth-Century French Medievalism.” Prose
Studies 23:2 (August 2000): 99-114.
“'A l'ombre d'une vieille cathédrale romanesque': The Medievalism of Gautier and Zola.” The French Review 73:2 (December 1999):
290-300.
“Bricabracomania: Zola’s Romantic Instinct.” Excavatio 12 (1999): 107-115.
“Zola and the Tree of Jesse.” Excavatio 11 (1998): 74-80.
“Zola, Disciple of Huysmans?” Excavatio 9 (1997): 44-52.
Book Reviews:
White, Claire. Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan,
2014. H-France Reviews 15 (July 2015): 1-4 (no. 91).
Sigu, Véronique. Médiévisme et Lumières: le Moyen Age dans la ‘Bibliothèque universelle des romans’. Forthcoming in Modern Language
Review 110.3 (July 2015): 865-866.
Stahuljak, Zrinka. Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation. Medievally Speaking (18 July
2013) [http://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2013/07/stahuljak-pornographic-archaeology.html]
Yon, Jean-Claude. Une Histoire du Théàtre à Paris. The French Review 87:2 (December 2013): 247.
Solterer, Helen. Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic. H-France Reviews 12: 137 (October
2012): 1-4.
Bouhaïk-Gironès, Véronique Dominguez, Jelle Koopmans, eds. Les Pères du théâtre médiéval: Examen critique de la constitution d’un
savoir académique. La Revue critique de philologie romane 11 (2010 [2012]): 190-197.
Zachmann, Gayle. Frameworks for Mallarmé: The Photo and the Graphic of an Interdisciplinary Aesthetic (State University of New
York Press, 2008). Romanic Review (May 2010) [2011]: 585-587.
Huysmans, J.-K. (Ed. Patrice Locmant). Le Drageoir aux épices suivi de textes inédits (Honoré Champion, 2003). The French Review
79:5 (April 2006): 24-25.
Robert Ziegler. The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans (University of Delaware Press, 2004). NineteenthCentury French Studies 34:1-2 (2005): 189-190.
Marc Smeets. Huysmans l’inchangé (Rodopi, 2003). Nineteenth-Century French Studies 33:1-2 (2004-2005): 209-211.
Bettina Knapp. French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach (SUNY Press, 2002). The Medieval Review 03.09.29.
Article Translations:
Louis-Pierre Sardella. “Mgr Mignot, le moderniste par excellence?” By Those who Knew Them: Modernists Left, Right and Center.
Ed. Harvey Hill, Louis-Pierre Sardella, and C.J.T. Talar. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press,
2008. 150-186.
Giacomo Losito. “Ernesto Buonaiuti and Il programma dei modernisti” (with C.J.T. Talar). US Catholic Historian 25: 1 (2007): 7196.
Editorial:
Joint Editor, Romance Studies
Book Review Coeditor, Nineteenth-Century French Studies