James F Hamilton

Professor
709C Old Chemistry Building
513-556-1832
james.hamilton@uc.edu

Education

PhD, The Ohio State University, 1970.

Research Interests

Jim Hamilton is the author of Rousseau's Theory of Literature: The Poetics of Art and Nature (1979) and articles on Montesquieu, Maupassant, and other authors.

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Sands La Mare au diable, the Appendice as Peasant Ritual and Narrative Closure,” George Sand Studies 26 (published in April 2008 but predated 2007): 3-14.

“Sand’s La Mare au diable, Awakening through Evil and the Hero’s Journey,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 36 (Fall-Winter 2007-08): 45-60.

“Gender Convergence in Sand’s La Mare au diable, A Contrasexual Reading,” Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film: French Literature Series 34 (2007): 73-86.

“Childhood Defined by Game Playing in Rousseau’s Confessions,” THE CHILD: French Literature Series 31 (2004): 149-60.

“Psychological Geography and Sacred Space in Sand’s La Petite Fadette,” Geo/Graphies: French Literature Series 30 (2003): 87-98.

“La Basilique de Théophile Gautier, un voyage psychologique et esthétique,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 31 (Fall-Winter 2002-2003): 27-40. (with Sophie Champigny, a Ph.D student, as second author)

“Connecting Atala and René, the Senex and Puer Archetypes,” Romance Quarterly 48 (Fall 2001): 239-49.

"René's Volcano, Creative Center and Gendered Periphery," The Romanic Review (March 1998): 187-198.

“Spiritual Geography and the Axis of Ascension in Atala,” French Literature Series: Religion and French Literature 25 (1998): 105-119.

“Symbolic Incest in Sand's François le Champi: the True Protagonist or ‘Redeeming the Father’-- a Fairy Tale Interpretation” in Kaleidescope: Essays on Nineteenth-Century French Literature in Honor of Thomas H. Goetz. Ed. Graham Falconer and Mary Donaldson-Evans. Toronto: Centre d’Etudes Romantiques Joseph Sablé, 1996: 51-68.

“The Gendering of Space in Chateaubriand's Combourg," Archetypal Architecture and Patriarchal Object, Symposium 50 (Summer 1996): 101-113.

“The Recovery of Psychic Center in Daudet's Les Lettres de mon Moulin,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 24 (Fall-Winter 1995-96): 133-43.

"Dickens' Tale of Two Archetypes or Weaving vs. Knitting," The Explicator 53 (Summer 1995): 204-8.

"Framing Sand's La Mare au Diable: A Case of Positive Patriarchy," French Literature Series: Perceptions of Values 22 (1995): 119-24.

"Terrorizing the 'Feminine' in Hugo, Dickens, and France," Symposium (Fall 1994): 204-15.

"The Hero's Journey to Niagara in Chateaubriand and Heredia, French and Cuban Exiles," Romance Quarterly 41 (Spring 1994): 71-78.

"The Ideology of Place: Flaubert's Depiction of Yonville-l'Abbaye," The French Review 65 (Dec. 1991): 206-215.

"The Anxious Hero in Chateaubriand's René,” Romance Quarterly (Perspectives on French Romanticism, Special Issue) 34 (November 1987): 415-424.

"Ritual Passage in Chateaubriand's Atala,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 15 (Summer 1987): 385-393.

"Murder as Ritual in Musset's Lorenzaccio," Studi Francesi, 93 (1987): 437-39.

“The Ideology of Exoticism in Chateaubriand’s Atala, An Eighteenth-Century Perspective,” French Literature Series: Exoticism in French Literature 13 (1986): 28-37.

"Mimetic Desire in Musset's Lorenzaccio," Kentucky Romance Quarterly 32 (1985): 347-357.

"From Ricochets to Jeu in Musset's On ne badine pas avec l'amour, A Game Analysis," The French Review 58 (May 1985): 820-826.

“La Bibliothèque polanaise de Paris,” The French Review, 58 (May 1985), 820-826.

"Rousseau's Préface de Narcisse, as Essay in Self-Understanding." French Literature Series: The French Essay, 9 (1982), 30-34.

"The Impossible Return to Nature in Bel-Ami or the Intellectual Heroine as Deviant." Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 10 (Spring-Summer 1982), 326-339.

"Pagan Ritual and Human Sacrifice in Mérimée's Mateo Falcone." The French Review, 55 (October 1981), 52-59.

"Two Psychodramatic Scenes in Stendhal's Armance. Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 28 (1981), 121-130.

"Madame Bovary and the Myth of Androgyny." The USF Language Quarterly 19 (Spring- Summer 1981):19-22.

"Zola's Nana and Jeanne d'Arc: Contrary Myths and the Creative Process." The USF Language Quarterly, 19 (Fall-Winter 1980), 7-10.

"Image of the Tailless Cat' in Woolf's A Room of One's Own." The Explicator, 39 (Fall 1980), 4-6.

"The Anti-Rousseauism of Madame Bovary." Romance Notes, 27 (Fall 1980), 68-72.

"Le Théâtre italien à Paris." French Review, 53 (March 1980), 566-567.

"Rousseau's Emile et Sophie, a Parody of the `Philosopher-King'." Studi Francesi, 65-66 (1978), 392-395.

"From Art to Nature in George Sand's La Mare au Diable." French Literature Series: French Literature and the Arts, 5 (1978), 179-182.

"Romantic Heroism in Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir: A Victory over the `Machine'," Voices of Conscience: Essays in Memory of James D. Powell and Rosemary Hodgins. Raymond J. Cormier, ed. Temple University Press, 1977, pp. 204-214.

"Structural Polarity in Mme de Staèl's De la littérature." French Review, 50 (April 1977), 706-712.

"The Novelist as Historian: A Contrast between Balzac's Les Chouans and Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize." French Review 49 (April 1976), 661-668.

"Reason and Sentiment in Montesquieu's Understanding of Suicide." American Society Legion of Honor Magazine, Special Bicentennial Issue, 47 (1976), 101-114.

"Myth of Messianism: the Link between the Profession de foi and Structure in Rousseau's Emile." French Literature Series: Mythology in French Literature, 3 (1976), 54-61.

"Literature and `Natural Man' in Rousseau's Emile” in Literature and History in the Age of Ideas: Essays Presented to George Havens. Charles Williams, ed. Ohio State Press, 1975: 195-206.

"Molière and Rousseau: The Confrontation between Art and Politics," Molière and the Commonwealth of Letters. Roger Johnson, Jr. and Editha S. Neumann, eds. University of Southern Mississippi, 1975, pp. 100-108.

"Maupassant's Clochette and Flaubert's Félicité, Memories of Martyrdom." French Literature Series: The Short Story, 2 (1975), 185-188.

"Rousseau's Theological Oppression of Sophie." Studi Francesi 54 (1974) : 478-480.

"Stendhal's Le Rouge et le Noir and Rousseau's L'Emile: Contrary Experiments." Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 8 (Spring-Summer 1978), 199-212.

"Mme de Staël, Partisan of Rousseau or Voltaire?" Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 106 (1973), 253-265.

Books

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Poetics of Nature. York, South Carolina: French Literature Publications (Summa Publications), 1979.