États-Unis

I – Livres

• Balzac, Louis Lambert, trad. Clara Bell et James Waring, McLean, Virginia, IndyPublish.Com, 2002.
• Balzac, The Wrong Side of Paris (L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine), trad. Jordan Stump, introduction Adam Gopnik, notes James Madden, New York, The Modern Library, Random House, 2003.
• Bell (David F.) [Duke Univ.], Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola, Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2003.
• Bloom (Harold) [Yale Univ.] (éd.), Honoré de Balzac, Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publishers, 2003 (publication originale: 1993).
• Finas (Lucette), Text as Resonance: Modern Critical Readings in Diderot, Sade, Balzac, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, trad. Annwyl Williams, Lewiston, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
• Lucey (Michael) [Univ. of California, Berkeley], The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality, Durham, North Carolina, Duke Univ. Press, 2003.
• Madden (James C.), Weaving Balzac's Web: Spinning Tales and Creating the Whole of La Comédie humaine, Birmingham, Alabama, Summa Publications, 2003.

II – Articles

• Bloom (Harold) [Yale Univ.], “Honoré de Balzac”, chapitre 10, in Genius : a mosaic of one hundred exemplary creative minds, New York, Warner Books, 2002.
• Blanchot (Maurice), “The Art of the Novel in Balzac”, in Faux pas, trad. Charlotte Mandell, California, Stanford Univ. Press, 2001.
• Boulard (Stéphanie) [Emory Univ.], “Double enquête sur La Fille aux yeux d'or”, Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, 20, 2, printemps 2003, p. 36-44.
• Danto (Arthur C.) [Columbia Univ.], “The unknown masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac”, in Unknown masterpieces: writers rediscover literature's hidden classics, ed. Edwin Frank, New York Review Books Classics, 2003.
• Fleming (Brendan), “'Balzac and the Land League': A 'New' Article by George Moore”, English Literature in Transition (1880-1920), 46, 4, 2003, p. 356-359; suivi par l'article de Moore, d'abord publié en 1886, p. 360-364 [Les Paysans].
• Hayes (Kevin J.) [Univ. of Central Oklahoma], "Balzac Among the Moderns", Tamkang Review, Taïwan, République de Chine, 31-32, 1, été-automne 2001, p. 247-261 [l’influence de Balzac sur les poètes modernistes américains].
• Heathcote (Owen) [Univ. of Bradford], “Hermeneutic Circles and Cycles of Violence: La Fille aux yeux d'or, Histoire d'O, Les guerillères”, South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association, 19-20, 4, 1, hiver-printemps 2002-2003, p. 44-62.
• McEachern (Patricia A.) [Drury Univ.], “La Vierge et la bête: Marian Iconographies and Bestial Effigies in Nineteenth-Century French Narratives”, Nineteenth Century French Studies, 31, 1-2, automne-hiver 2002-2003, p. 111-122 [Le Lys dans la vallée].
• Mileham (James W.) [Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee], “Desert, Desire, Dezesperance: Space and Play in Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais”, Nineteenth Century French Studies, 31, 3-4, printemps-été 2003, p. 210-225.
• Mortimer (Armine Kotin) [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], “Balzac and Poe: Realizing Magnetism”, Dalhousie French Studies, 63, 2003, p. 22-30 [Ursule Mirouët].
• Rifelj (Carol) [Middlebury College], “The Language of Hair in the Nineteenth-Century Novel”, Nineteenth Century French Studies, 32, 1-2, automne-hiver 2003-2004), p. 83-103 [Honorine, Le Colonel Chabert, La Peau de chagrin, La Cousine Bette, Ferragus, Massimilla Doni].
• Riffaterre (Michael) [Columbia Univ.], “Fear of Theory”, Romanic Review, 93, 1-2, janvier-mars 2002, p. 185-199 [La Vieille Fille].
• Ryan (Margaret), “Reading Balzac”, The American Scholar, 71, 2, printemps 2002, p. 50-52 [La Rabouilleuse].
• Witalec (Janet) (éd.), “Honoré de Balzac”, in Short Story Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers, Michigan, The Gale Group, 59, 2003, p. 1-67.

III – Communications

• The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes à Leeds en Angleterre s’est réuni au début de septembre, 2003, pour son deuxième colloque annuel. Il y a eu deux communications américaines: Allan H. Pasco [Univ. of Kansas], “Tangible Wealth vs. Intangible Power in Balzac’s Le Curé de Tours”; Armine Kotin Mortimer [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], “Philosophy Lost in the Capital of Money: Balzac’s Melmoth réconcilié.”
• Le 19 septembre, 2003, au Vingt-Huitième Colloque sur la Littérature et le Cinéma, à la West Virginia Univ., Edward C. Smith III [Rowan Univ.] a présenté “Le Colonel Chabert: War, Law and the Vagaries of Individual and National Identity.”
• Au 29e colloque annuel de la société Nineteenth-Century French Studies, du 23 au 25 octobre 2003, à la Univ. of Arizona à Tucson: "Change in Nineteenth-Century French Culture", il y a eu de nombreuses communications sur Balzac:

o Allan H. Pasco [Univ. of Kansas], "Disastrous Change in Balzac's France: From Paris to Berry and Back Again in La Rabouilleuse";

o Armine Kotin Mortimer [Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign], “Music, Love, and Opium: Semiotics of Balzac’s Massimilla Doni”;

o Dan Edelstein [Univ. of Pennsylvania], "Balzac and the Invention of Mythical Modernism";

o Dorothy Kelly [Boston Univ.], "Noisy Change in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin";

o Emeline Dhommée [Université de Montréal], "La dynamique du monde de l'argent dans La Comédie humaine de Balzac";

o Irene Perciali [Univ. of California, Berkeley], "Inscrutable Strategists: Pre-thinking Economic Change in Balzac's France.";

o Janice Best [Acadia Univ.], "Les dangers d'un amour trop exalté: l'adaptation dramatique du Lys dans la vallée";

o Jean-Dominique Goffette [Lycée Jules Ferry], "Les Grands Boulevards, espace de référence et lieu d'exception: Balzac, Flaubert, Baudelaire";

o Jean-François Richer [Université de Montréal / Université de Paris 8], “Un changement de décor sous la Monarchie de Juillet: la réinvention du boudoir dans la Comédie Humaine d’Honoré de Balzac”;

o Keri A. Berg [DePauw Univ.], "Characters of Change: A Change of Character: Balzac's Criminal and his Double, the Caricaturist";

o Lisa Algazi [Hood College], “‘Sucer un sein amer’: Unhappy Romantic Motherhood.” [Le Lys dans la vallée];

o Lynn R. Wilkinson [Univ. of Texas Austin / Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities], "Culture and Power in Balzac's Rubempré Cycle: The view from Bourdieu";

o Marie Lathers [Case Western Reserve Univ.], "La Fille aux yeux d'or and the Absence of Color";

o Mary Jane Cowles [Kenyon College], "Telle qu'en elle-même enfin...: Changing Mother(s) in Balzac's Le Lys dans la vallée";

o Masha Belenky [George Washington Univ.], "Letters, Lies, and Legible Urban Space in Balzac's Ferragus";

o Melissa Bailar [Rice Univ.], “Stages of Change: The Comédienne, the Theater, and 19th-century Paris.” [Illusions perdues];

o Stéphane Vachon [Université de Montréal], "Le tombeau d'Honoré de Balzac";

o Susan Hiner [Vassar College], “Mode, Monde et Demi Monde: Fashioning Social Flux.” [“La Femme comme il faut”].

IV – Travaux en cours

• Daniela Teodorescu [Univ. of Kansas], “Deux personnages dans Gambara: Les Effets et les causes”, Symposium (à paraître).

V – Thèses de doctorat

• Aubert (Anne-Catherine), Accusation and representation in French narrative prose of the Nineteenth-Century (texte en français), Rutgers Univ. of New Jersey, dir. Uri Eisenzweig [Le Colonel Chabert].
• Berg (Keri A.), Fighting for the Page:  Balzac, Grandville and the Power of Images, 1830-1848, Univ. of Texas at Austin, dir. Alexandra K. Wettlaufer [les premiers écrits journalistiques de Balzac, les rôles du personnage reparaissant Bixiou].
• Clinton (Jennifer Lee), Quests and Conquests of the 'Renaissance Individual' as Told by Early Nineteenth-Century Writers: Stendhal, Balzac and Hugo, Univ. of California at Davis, dir. Elizabeth Constable.
• Peters Crick (Rosemary Alison), Aux voleurs: Theft and Thieves in the French Nineteenth-Century Novel, Harvard Univ., dir. Tom Conley [Code des gens honnêtes, Annette et le criminel].

VI -- Comptes rendus

• Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece (Le Chef d’oeuvre inconnu), Artforum, 39, 10, été 2001, p. 39 (R. Lieberman).
• Bouillaguet, Annick, Proust lecteur de Balzac et de Flaubert: l'imitation cryptée, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 32, 1-2, automne-hiver 2003-2004, p. 161-164 (Christine M. Cano).
• Madden (James C.), Weaving Balzac's Web: Spinning Tales and Creating the Whole of La Comédie humaine, Lingua Romana: a journal of French, Italian and Romanian culture, 1, 1, automne 2003 (Corry Cropper); http://linguaromana.byu.edu/cropper2.html
• Schehr (Lawrence R.), Rendering French Realism, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 31, 3-4, printemps-été 2003, p. 344-345 (Peter Starr).
• Thiher (Allen), Fiction rivals science: The French novel from Balzac to Proust, Romance Quarterly, 50, 3, été 2003, p. 226-227 (Christine M. Cano); et Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 31, 3-4, printemps-été 2003, p. 345-348 (Gareth E. Gollrad).
• Vachon (Stéphane), Le dernier Balzac, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 32, 1-2, automne-hiver 2003-2004, p. 159-161 (Jeannine Guichardet).

James Mileham.