What is the nature of the relationship between memory, identity, and culture in a recently federalized nation? In Belgian Memories, writers and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including ethnology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, history, film, art history, and geography, ask to what extent Belgium's literary and visual environment (from novels to paintings, comic strips to movies, and architecture to urban planning) reflects distinctly Belgian ways of dealing with the past. Such issues have become more pressing since Belgium has reconstituted itself politically and must deal...

Editors' Preface

I.Chronology

II. Historical Perspectives

Violaine Houdart-Merot

Literary Education in the Lycee: Crises, Continuity, and Upheaval since 1880

Martine Jey

The Literature of the Enlightenment: An Impossible Legacy for the Republican School

Anne-Marie Chartier

When French Schoolchildren were Introduced to Literature (1920-1940)

Gilbert Chaitin

Education and Political Identity: The Universalist Controversy

III. Education Outside of the School, Outside of France

Ralph...

Time for Baudelaire suggests it's time that Yale French Studies devote an issue to the poet who more than any other inaugurated the unfinished epoch of modernity. It also urges that we take or make time for thinking about the specific ways in which poetry--and perhaps poetry alone--allows a historical concept like modernity to become accessible in the first place. Finally, it asks what time means when it comes to reading the relation between Baudelaire's writings and the moment, the event, the era--and our capacity to experience them together or in isolation from one another.