Laying the Foundations...

It's one thing to conduct research; another thing to analyze, interpret, mentally collate and extrapolate that research; and yet another to bring the fruits of that process into a comprehensive form.

For this project, I shall try to do so through a series of targeted feature posts or mini-essays, which will gradually mark out the terrain which will be explored in greater depth, precision, or detail later on.

This will happen slowly; to give at least a glimpse of the picture of the Bouzingo/Jeunes France, the ways in which they operated, and the broader Romanticist community, network, or subculture of which they were a node early on, I'm posting a list indicating what those topics are likely to be dealt with.

The completion of these will occur in the time and order that circumstances dictate. If there is anything below that somebody finds particularly intriguing or pertinent to research/translation/etc. that you are involved in, let me know and I'll probably turn my attention there next.

I also encourage any writings coming from those of you doing independant research or translation--just let me know and I'll send you an admin invite so you can post.

Look forward to features on:

Timeline
I'm working on this now; should help greatly in getting a grasp on everything.

The Jeunes France/Bouzingo:
Aloysius Bertrand--writer
Petrus Borel--writer/organizer/theorist/translator/painter/architect
Joseph Bouchardy--playwright/engraver
Louis Boulanger--painter, scenographer
Alphonse Brot--playwright
Achille Devéria--painter/lithographer/eroticist/writer
Eugène Devéria--painter & possibly writer, Achille's brother
Théophile Gautier--writer/painter/organizer
Augustus MacKeat--historian/novelist/poet/playwright
Gerard de Nerval--writer/translator/organizer
Philothée O'Neddy--writer/organizer/theorist/publisher
Célestin Nanteuil--engraver/possibly writer
Jehan de Seigneur--sculptor & possibly painter
Napoléon Thom--painter
Jules Vabre--translator/architect/theorist
XXXX Vigneron--no first name or other information yet

Friends, Collaborators, & Broader Romanticist Community of the Bouzingo
Charles Asselineau--Romanticist Archivist
Charles la Battut--Dandy/Organizer/Devisor of practical jokes
Pierre-Jean Béranger--Writer of subversive songs
Hector Berlioz--Composer/Conductor/Writer
Roger de Beauvoir--Dandy/Writer
André Borel--Writer
Francisque Borel--Leftist Romanticist Publisher
Nicolas Brazier--Writer of Subversive Songs
François Chateaubriand--Writer/Politician
Émile Debraux--Subversive Songwriter/Publisher
Eugéne Deligny--Playwright/Novelist
??? Dondey--Publisher
??? Dupré--Publisher
Évariste-Desiré de Forges de Parny--Subversive Songwriter
Xavier Forneret--Writer, possibly member of the Jeunes France
Charles Fourier--Socialist Utopian Theoist & agitator
Graziano--Romanticist Tavern-keeper
'La Mapah' Ganneau--Mystic Occultist/Utopian Theorist & Organizer
Gavarni--Caricaturist
Delphine de Girardin--Organizer/Writer
Victor Hugo--Writer/Playwright/Theorist
Jules Janin--Novelist/Leftist Polemicist
Alphonse Lamartine--Writer/Polemicist/Leftist Politician
Abbé Felicité de Lamennais--Defrocked Priest & Leftist Polemicist
Eugéne Lassilly--Poet
Froment Meurice--Goldsmith/Designer
Prospere Mérimée--Writer/Historian/Translator/Perpetrator of Hoaxes
Hippolyte Monpou--Composer/songwriter
Napoléon Musard--Composer/Conductor/creator of Romanticist Dances
Alfred de Musset--Writer
Charles Nodier--Organizer/Writer
Ollivier--Publisher
Éduard Ourliac--Writer/Dandy
Count Ourlioff--??? [possibly Jeunes France-period pseudonym of Ourliac]
Ren[d]uel--Romanticist publisher
Théodore Rousseau--Painter
The Marquis de Saint-Criq--Dandy/Devisor of practical jokes
Henri de Saint-Simon--Proto-Socialist utopian theorist & agitator
George Sand--Organizer/Writer/Theorist
Eugéne Sue--Novelist



Thematic Features
Intertextuality in the Bouzingo
On Researching the Bouzingo
Historiography of the Bouzingo
Singing and Song in the Bouzingo
On Romanticist Dance
Translation and the Bouzingo
Public Spectacle and the Bouzingo
Clothing, Myth, and the Bouzingo
The Significance of Naming for the Bouzingo
Multidisciplinarity in the Bouzingo
On Romanticist Organizing
Publication and the Bouzingo
Working Collaboratively in the Bouzingo
Collective Living in the Bouzingo
Speech, Conversation, and Myth in the Bouzingo
The Politics of Language in the Bouzingo
The Bouzingo and Gothic-Horror Subculture
The Bouzingo and the Satirical Tradition (Villon, Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne)
The Bouzingo and Dandyism
The Bouzingo and Libertinism, Évadanism, and Erotica
The Bouzingo as Self-Declared Anachronism
The Bouzingo and Theatre
Victor Hugo and the Bouzingo
Alexandre Dumas, The Petit Cenacle, and Augustus MacKeat
Bouzingo Poetics
Bouzingo Aesthetics
Utopia, Radical Politics, and the Bouzingo
Class Politics and the Bouzingo
Romanticism and War
The Bouzingo as Anachronistic Barbarians
Money, Work, and the Bouzingo
The Bouzingo and Family
The Bouzingo and Bohemian Subculture

Related Romanticist/Proto-Romanticist/Utopian/Avant-Garde Groups
The Badouillards (France, c. 1830)
The Bohême Doyenné (France, c. 1833-35)
The Carbonari (Italy/France/Portugal, c. 1810-1915)
The Caveau Moderne (France, 1806-1835/1937)
The Club des Hashihins (France, 1844-1849)
The Cénacle Group (France, c. 1826-30)
The Évadanistes (France, 1830)
The Lake School (England, c. 1790-1820)
The Hunt Circle/'Satanic' Romantics (England, c.1815-1825)
The Jocky Club (France, c.1833-1840)
The Nazarine Group (Germany, 1809-1830)
The Petit Cénacle (France, 1830-31)
The Saint-Simonistes (France, c.1825-1832)

Comparative Studies
The Bouzingo and Hermeticism/the Occult
The Bouzingo and Gothic Horror
The Bouzingo and the Byron circle
The Bouzingo, the Flaneur, & Psychogeography
The Bouzingo and Decadence
The Bouzingo and Pataphysics
The Bouzingo and Futurism
The Bouzingo and Berlin Dada
The Bouzingo and Paris Dada/Surrealism
The Bouzingo, Lettrism, & Situationism
The Bouzingo and Fluxus
The Bouzingo and Neoism
The Bouzingo and Post-NeoAbsurdism
The Bouzingo and Vernacular Subculture: Heavy Metal, Punk, and Noise