Scott Carpenter

Primary scholarly publications:

Books:

In progress (with Anders Uhrskov): The Heart of Study Abroad.           

            The Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-century France: Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits.  Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publications, 2009.

            Reading Lessons: An Introduction to Theory.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

            Acts of Fiction: Resistance and Resolution from Sade to Baudelaire.  University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

            Vagabondages littéraires (co-editor with the members of the French Section at Carleton) New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Articles, Essays, Entries:

            “Le canular : littérature et paralittérature” in Romantisme. (forthcoming.)

            “Le degré zéro de la parole mériméenne” in Cahiers Mérimée (forthcoming)

            “Vampirisme et production littéraire : se nourrir du sang des autres,” in Écritures XIX 6: Prosper Mérimée, Antonia Fonyi, ed. (Caen: Lettres Modernes Mindard, 2010), 23-32.

            “Prosper Mérimée’s Short Stories,” The Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.litencyc.com/) 2010.

            “Les Petits poëmes en prose, Charles Baudelaire,” The Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.litencyc.com/) 2008.

            “La Généalogie du faux : vers « La fausse monnaie » in Mélire : Lecture et Mystification, Nathalie Preiss, ed. (Paris: Editions L’improviste, 2006.)

            “Entre rue et boulevard : Les chemins de l’allégorie chez Baudelaire,” in Romantisme, 136, December 2006, 55-65.

            (with the Group Moo), “Et La Marquise resta pensive : Illusion et idéalisme dans La Marquise et Sarrasine,” French Review, 79, 4 (March 2006), 749-59.

            “Diversions in Reading: Aesthetics and Mérimées’s ‘La chambre bleue,’ in Short Story Criticism, Vol. 77, Gale Publishing, 2004; reprinted from FrenchForum, 14, 3 (Sept. 1989), 303-10.

            “Charles Baudelaire,” Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism, 2^nd. Edition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

            “La Logique de la digression,” in Maldoror hier et aujourd’hui : du romantisme à la modernité, Cahiers Lautréamont (Paris: Du Lérot: 2003).

            “Supercherie et violence : Mérimée, ou le texte piégé,” in Romantisme (2002, vol. 116), pp. 49-57.

            “L’Education sentimentale of 1845,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).

            “Maxime du Camp,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).

            “Achille Flaubert,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).

            “Achille-Cléophas Flaubert,” in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).

            “Caroline Hamard,”  in A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia, Laurence Porter, ed. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001).

            “Les Faux Démétrius: Les ratés de l’histoire,” in Prosper Mérimée : Écrivain, Archéologue, Historien, Antonia Fonyi, ed. (Genève: Droz, 1999), pp. 63-74.

            “Of False Napoleons and Other Political Prostheses: Writing Oppositionally from the Second Empire” Nineteenth Century French Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3-4 (Spring-Summer, 1997), 302-319.

            “Effigies et contrefaçons nationales: Pauvre Belgique! de Baudelaire,” in L’Oeuvre d’identité: Essais sur le romantisme de Nodier à Baudelaire (Montreal: Paragraphes, 1996), pp. 75-86.

            “Prosper Mérimée.”  Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 119: Nineteenth-century French Fiction writers: Romanticism and Realism, 1800-1860.  Detroit and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1992, pp. 193-205.

            “Sade and the Problem of Closure: Keeping Philosophy in the Bedroom,” Neophilologus, 75 (1991) 519-528.

            “Diversions in Reading: Aesthetics and Mérimées’s “La chambre bleue,” French Forum, 14, 3 (Sept. 1989), 303-10.

            “Figures of Interpretation in Nerval’s Aurélia,” Nineteenth Century French Studies, 17, Nos. 1&2 (Fall-Winter, 1988-89), pp. 152-60).

            “Demythification in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Studies in American Fiction, 15, No. 2 (Autumn, 1987), pp.211-18.

            “Metaphor and Madness in Mérimée’s ‘La Vénus d’Ille,’” Romance Notes, 27, No. 1 (Autumn, 1986 [May, 1987]), pp. 75-80.

            “L’Enterprise classique et le paradoxe dans Les Caractères,” The French Review, 60, No. 6 (May, 1987), pp. 31-38.

            “Montaigne couturier: Représentations et intertextualités dans ‘De L’amitié’,” Paroles Gelées, 4 (1986), pp. 31-38.