Dean de la Motte is assistant professor of French at Guilford College. He has published articles on nineteenth-century literature and culture; on Flaubert, Hugo, and Huysmans; and on bureaucracy, decadence, and utopia. He is coeditor of Making the News: Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming). He is at work on Going Nowhere Fast, a study of narratives of progress in nineteenth-century France. Stirling Haig is professor of French at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has served as president of the AATF and editor of the The French Review and North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Flaubert and the Gift of Speech (1986), The Madame Bovary Blues (1987), Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1989) and of articles on several periods of French literature. He is editing a volume of essays on literature and the arts in nineteenth-century Europe.
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