This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]

In ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]

Haussmann’s re-building of Paris in the 1850s and ’60s had created an ordered city. However, the bourgeoisie used the new urban configurations as a weapon against the lower classes. This article describes the spaces of the underground and the overground: the underground is the metaphorical and literal rubbish heap for those in the lower parts of…[Read more]

Tras el fin de la III Conferencia Panamericana en Río de Janeiro, el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Elihu Root, inició una gira por varios países sudamericanos. Uno de ellos fue el Perú, a donde arribó el 10 de setiembre de 1906. Al desembarcar en el Callao, Root se convirtió en el oficial estadounidense de más alto rango en visita…[Read more]

Tras el fin de la III Conferencia Panamericana en Río de Janeiro, el Secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Elihu Root, inició una gira por varios países sudamericanos. Uno de ellos fue el Perú, a donde arribó el 10 de setiembre de 1906. Al desembarcar en el Callao, Root se convirtió en el oficial estadounidense de más alto rango en visita…[Read more]

The goal of the Kampung Inggris paper was to investigate any differences in the methodological and
conceptual framework of the English course. It was based on non-formal educational institution administration
and thus adaptable to different language course initiators, such as Sawai Village. The chronology in this
article, on the other hand,…[Read more]

Merels (also called Nine Men‘s Morris) comprises a family of traditional board games with ancient roots. Between medieval and modern times, merels saw an interesting onomasiological shift : Several European languages took up a new name for the game. This new name is sometimes claimed to have originated in German, but the details surrounding this n…[Read more]