Andrew J Counter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1094059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Counter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Counter |
| SIGNATURE | COUNTER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
George Sand, Antisex Feminist
George Sand's feminist novels of the 1830s often seem to have a “problem” with sex, or to view sex as a problem. In them, heterosexual sex often appears disempowering for women and therefore politically unpalatable; worse, heterosexual desire itself emerges as primordially marked by patriarchal constraints, predicated on the (self-)objectification and subjection of women. This article offers a speculative reading of Sand's early fictions as antic…
Use, Value, Justification
The ‘historical turn' has been particularly fruitful and enabling in nineteenth-century French studies, and methodological approaches that might broadly be described as ‘historicist’ remain dominant within the subfield. Yet these approaches inevitably privilege certain types of literary critical thinking over others, and may even obscure some of the ways in which literary texts have, or can be given, meaning. They also tend to posit the audience …
That is Not What I Meant at All
Book Review| January 01 2021 “That is Not What I Meant at All” Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert. Lucey, Michael. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 344 pp. Andrew J. Counter Andrew J. Counter Andrew J. Counter is associate professor of French at the University of Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 149–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-87769…
Dead Hands, or, How the French Stopped the Dead Seizing the Living
The French Revolution’s severe restriction of the right of bequest reflected and consolidated a longstanding French legal skepticism about the ability of the dead to control property and, through property, the living. This article argues that this “resistance” to the power of the dead, and its legal enactment by the Revolution, had significant consequences not only for the legal but also for the literary cultures of post-Revolutionary France. The…
Stéphane Gougelmann et Anne Verjus (dir.). Écrire le mariage en France au xix e siècle . Saint-Etienne, Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2016, 462 p
Wilde, Zola, Dreyfus, Christ
Oscar Wilde and Émile Zola are conventionally opposed as the figureheads of, respectively, the aestheticist and the naturalist literary trends. Yet they exhibit a number of uncanny similarities-not least the turn both made in their last years toward religious themes and imagery, and especially those of martyrdom and the Passion. This article explores such images in the later life, work, and public persona of each writer and sets them within the c…
Mingrat
This article explores the discursive afterlife of the 1822 murder of Marie Grin by the Abb Mingrat, who subsequently fled France and was never extradited. The crime, which the Restoration government attempted to conceal, is read here as a cause clbre that acted throughout the Restoration as a watchword of anticlerical and otherwise oppositional opinion.
Zola's fin-de-siècle Reproductive Politics
This article offers a synoptic reading of Émile Zola's fictional and journalistic writings from the mid-1890s to his death in 1902, considering these in light of the novelist's engagement with the Third Republic's politics of pronatalism, and with questions of reproduction more broadly. It explores Zola's particular conception of the problem of depopulation (the declining French birth rate at the end of the nineteenth century) as an aesthetic que…
Bad Examples
This article examines a corpus of nineteenth-century French instructional texts offering guidance to bourgeois readers on the training and governance of domestic servants, and focuses on how these texts construct the relationship between servants and children in such a way as to sexualize both. Operating within a broadly Foucauldian paradigm, the article considers how masturbation appears as the ultimate symbol of sexual knowledge in the period. …
Napoleonic Friendship
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy & Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 121–122
The Legacy of the Beast
This article explores the legacy of primitive violence evoked by Zola and Freud in La Bête humaine (1890) and Totem and Taboo (1913) respectively, and attempts to show how Zola's and Freud's use of a paradigm of primitive aggression might be ideologically complicit with a violent inclination in their contemporaneous societies. This issue will be considered in its relations with the notions of patrilinearity and rupture, concepts which are integra…
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The Legacy of the Beast
This article explores the legacy of primitive violence evoked by Zola and Freud in La Bête humaine (1890) and Totem and Taboo (1913) respectively, and attempts to show how Zola's and Freud's use of a paradigm of primitive aggression might be ideologically complicit with a violent inclination in their contemporaneous societies. This issue will be considered in its relations with the notions of patrilinearity and rupture, concepts which are integra…
Napoleonic Friendship
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy & Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 121–122
Bad Examples
This article examines a corpus of nineteenth-century French instructional texts offering guidance to bourgeois readers on the training and governance of domestic servants, and focuses on how these texts construct the relationship between servants and children in such a way as to sexualize both. Operating within a broadly Foucauldian paradigm, the article considers how masturbation appears as the ultimate symbol of sexual knowledge in the period. …
Zola's fin-de-siècle Reproductive Politics
This article offers a synoptic reading of Émile Zola's fictional and journalistic writings from the mid-1890s to his death in 1902, considering these in light of the novelist's engagement with the Third Republic's politics of pronatalism, and with questions of reproduction more broadly. It explores Zola's particular conception of the problem of depopulation (the declining French birth rate at the end of the nineteenth century) as an aesthetic que…
Mingrat
This article explores the discursive afterlife of the 1822 murder of Marie Grin by the Abb Mingrat, who subsequently fled France and was never extradited. The crime, which the Restoration government attempted to conceal, is read here as a cause clbre that acted throughout the Restoration as a watchword of anticlerical and otherwise oppositional opinion.
Stéphane Gougelmann et Anne Verjus (dir.). Écrire le mariage en France au xix e siècle . Saint-Etienne, Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2016, 462 p
Wilde, Zola, Dreyfus, Christ
Oscar Wilde and Émile Zola are conventionally opposed as the figureheads of, respectively, the aestheticist and the naturalist literary trends. Yet they exhibit a number of uncanny similarities-not least the turn both made in their last years toward religious themes and imagery, and especially those of martyrdom and the Passion. This article explores such images in the later life, work, and public persona of each writer and sets them within the c…
Use, Value, Justification
The ‘historical turn' has been particularly fruitful and enabling in nineteenth-century French studies, and methodological approaches that might broadly be described as ‘historicist’ remain dominant within the subfield. Yet these approaches inevitably privilege certain types of literary critical thinking over others, and may even obscure some of the ways in which literary texts have, or can be given, meaning. They also tend to posit the audience …
That is Not What I Meant at All
Book Review| January 01 2021 “That is Not What I Meant at All” Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert. Lucey, Michael. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 344 pp. Andrew J. Counter Andrew J. Counter Andrew J. Counter is associate professor of French at the University of Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2021) 27 (1): 149–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-87769…
Dead Hands, or, How the French Stopped the Dead Seizing the Living
The French Revolution’s severe restriction of the right of bequest reflected and consolidated a longstanding French legal skepticism about the ability of the dead to control property and, through property, the living. This article argues that this “resistance” to the power of the dead, and its legal enactment by the Revolution, had significant consequences not only for the legal but also for the literary cultures of post-Revolutionary France. The…
George Sand, Antisex Feminist
George Sand's feminist novels of the 1830s often seem to have a “problem” with sex, or to view sex as a problem. In them, heterosexual sex often appears disempowering for women and therefore politically unpalatable; worse, heterosexual desire itself emerges as primordially marked by patriarchal constraints, predicated on the (self-)objectification and subjection of women. This article offers a speculative reading of Sand's early fictions as antic…
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