Sara Phenix
Biographic Data
| ID | 9715181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Phenix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Phenix |
| SIGNATURE | PHENIX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Savoir Fer
This essay investigates the discursive intersection of various iron objects in fin-de-siècle France: the Eiffel Tower, the metal-boned corset, the anaemia tonic Fer Bravais, and the cannons on display at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The confluence of these objects occurs in the contemporary discourse about dénatalité – the demographic disaster of France’s depressed birth rate after the Franco-Prussian War. Dress reformers and medical experts …
Le Corset Expérimental
This essay examines fertility politics in Zola's Pot—Bouille (1882) and Au Bonheur des dames (1883) in terms of the controversial and ubiquitous foundation garment of nineteenth—century women's dress: the corset. The corset exemplifies the novels' concerns with good form — good form meaning both the ideal feminine silhouette and the code of bourgeois propriety. The corset abets a series of reproductive failures in the narratives and thus incarnat…
Ladies’ Choice
Criticism of Au Bonheur des Dames has traditionally framed the novel’s Darwinian dynamics in terms of socioeconomic natural selection. We explore another facet of Darwinism in the novel: sexual selection. The urban modernity of Au Bonheur des Dames belies Zola’s concern with deep time. We consider courtship and seduction in the novel in the context of nineteenth-century theories of evolution. Darwin’s The Descent of Man revised the theory of natu…
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Ladies’ Choice
Criticism of Au Bonheur des Dames has traditionally framed the novel’s Darwinian dynamics in terms of socioeconomic natural selection. We explore another facet of Darwinism in the novel: sexual selection. The urban modernity of Au Bonheur des Dames belies Zola’s concern with deep time. We consider courtship and seduction in the novel in the context of nineteenth-century theories of evolution. Darwin’s The Descent of Man revised the theory of natu…
Le Corset Expérimental
This essay examines fertility politics in Zola's Pot—Bouille (1882) and Au Bonheur des dames (1883) in terms of the controversial and ubiquitous foundation garment of nineteenth—century women's dress: the corset. The corset exemplifies the novels' concerns with good form — good form meaning both the ideal feminine silhouette and the code of bourgeois propriety. The corset abets a series of reproductive failures in the narratives and thus incarnat…
Savoir Fer
This essay investigates the discursive intersection of various iron objects in fin-de-siècle France: the Eiffel Tower, the metal-boned corset, the anaemia tonic Fer Bravais, and the cannons on display at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The confluence of these objects occurs in the contemporary discourse about dénatalité – the demographic disaster of France’s depressed birth rate after the Franco-Prussian War. Dress reformers and medical experts …
Art (3 works) · Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Bourgeoisie (1 work) · Composite material (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (1 work) · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies (1 work)