Dr Francesco Manzini
Print versionHonorary Visiting Research Associate
Contact: francesco.manzini@kcl.ac.uk (from September '07).
Francesco Manzini studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and at UCL, where he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of French and also taught in the Department of Italian. He then moved to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, where he was a Visiting Fellow, before arriving at King’s College as an Honorary Visiting Research Associate. His research interests are in a long nineteenth century stretching from the French Revolution to the end of the Second World War. In particular, he has specialized in the novels of Stendhal, Balzac, Barbey d’Aurevilly and Huysmans, as well as in the political writings of Joseph de Maistre, Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet and other figures of the Catholic right. He is currently writing a book on the motif of fever in French literature of the period and the ways in which it served to reconfigure existing literary, medical, religious and political discourses. This book is due to be published in 2008 by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies as The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos. Other current projects include a study of the motif of execution in a range of literary texts published in the years immediately before and after the Revolution of 1830 and a comparative study of Stendhal’s Italian fiction and Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. He is a regular reviewer for French Studies.
Francesco Manzini studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and at UCL, where he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of French and also taught in the Department of Italian. He then moved to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, where he was a Visiting Fellow, before arriving at King’s College as an Honorary Visiting Research Associate. His research interests are in a long nineteenth century stretching from the French Revolution to the end of the Second World War. In particular, he has specialized in the novels of Stendhal, Balzac, Barbey d’Aurevilly and Huysmans, as well as in the political writings of Joseph de Maistre, Antoine Blanc de Saint-Bonnet and other figures of the Catholic right. He is currently writing a book on the motif of fever in French literature of the period and the ways in which it served to reconfigure existing literary, medical, religious and political discourses. This book is due to be published in 2008 by the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies as The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos. Other current projects include a study of the motif of execution in a range of literary texts published in the years immediately before and after the Revolution of 1830 and a comparative study of Stendhal’s Italian fiction and Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. He is a regular reviewer for French Studies.
Recent Publications
Stendhal’s Parallel Lives (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004).
‘Fever as Fervour: Mesmerism, Religion, Gender and Class in Balzac’s Ursule Mirouët’, in eSharp, 7 (Spring 2006), http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue7/Manzini.pdf .
‘Execution and Sacrifice: Joseph de Maistre and Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir’, in Journal of Romance Studies, 6:3 (Winter 2006), 71–86.
‘Fever, Blood and Frenetic Romanticism: Pétrus Borel’s ‘Don Andréa Vésalius’ and Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Un prêtre marié’, in Dix-Neuf, 8 (April 2007), 39–55.
‘Fever as Fervour: Mesmerism, Religion, Gender and Class in Balzac’s Ursule Mirouët’, in eSharp, 7 (Spring 2006), http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue7/Manzini.pdf .
‘Execution and Sacrifice: Joseph de Maistre and Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir’, in Journal of Romance Studies, 6:3 (Winter 2006), 71–86.
‘Fever, Blood and Frenetic Romanticism: Pétrus Borel’s ‘Don Andréa Vésalius’ and Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Un prêtre marié’, in Dix-Neuf, 8 (April 2007), 39–55.
