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Michael R. Finn
BA, MA (University of Toronto), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Adjunct professor of French.
Research areas
 Michael
Finn’s research focused largely on Marcel Proust until the
late 1990s, when he became interested in medicine and literature
questions not only in Proust, but in the decadent period in France
and in the fin-de-siècle period in general. His latest work in this area is a book entitled Hysteria, Hypnosis, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-de-Siècle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde. Two additional areas of interest are
the representation of pathologized sexuality in French fin-de-siècle
fiction and the emergence of a pre-Freudian unconscious in late
19th and early 20th century French fiction.
Publications
Hysteria, Hypnosis, the Spirits and Pornography: Fin-de-Siècle Cultural Discourses in the Decadent Rachilde. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.
Marcel Proust, the Body and Literary Form.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. Reissued in paperback as of
May 2006.
Rachilde – Maurice Barrès. Correspondance inédite
1885-1914. Brest (France) : Centre d’Étude des
Correspondances et Journaux Intimes/Faculté des Lettres/C.N.R.S,
2002.
Book Chapters and Articles
“Female Sterilization and Artificial Insemination in Fin-de-Siècle France: Facts and Fictions.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 18, 1-2 (January-May 2009): 26-43.
“Rachilde: Une décadente dans un réseau de bas-bleus” @nalyses, online, University of Ottawa (August 2008). http://www.revue-analyses.org/sommaire.php?id=1126
“Science et paranormal au 19e siècle : la science-fiction
spiritualiste de Camille Flammarion”. Dalhousie French
Studies 78 (Spring 2007): 43-51.
“Doctors, Malady and Creativity in Rachilde.” Nineteenth-Century
French Studies 34, 1-2 (Fall-Winter 2005-2006): 106-118.
“Imagining Rachilde: Decadence and the roman à
clefs.” French Forum 30, 1 (Winter 2005): 81-96.
“Proust, Maeterlinck, les arbres et les clochers.” Bulletin
Marcel Proust 54 (2004): 127-33.
“Maurice Barrès (1862 – 1923)”. Cahiers
Paul Léautaud 34 (2004): 36-41.
“Retrospective Medicine, Hypnosis, Hysteria and French Literature,
1875-1895.” Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural
History, George Rousseau et al. eds. Houndmills, Basingstoke,
Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. 173-89.
“Rachilde, Maurice Barrès and the Preface to Monsieur
Vénus”, Romanic Review 91, 1-2 (January-March
2000): 89-104.
“Rachilde et ses romans à clefs.” Les Romans
à clefs, Troisième Colloque des Invalides, Tusson
(France): Éditions Du Lérot, 2000. 59-63.
“Neurasthenia, Hysteria, Androgyny: The Goncourt Brothers
and Marcel Proust”, French Studies 51, 3 (July 1997):
293-304.
“Réflexions sur quelques noms proustiens”, Bulletin
Marcel Proust 47 (1997): 90-8.
“Proust et le roman du neurasthénique”, Revue
d’Histoire Littéraire de la France 2 (mars-avril
1996): 266-89.
“Le Balzac de Proust.” Balzac: Une poétique
du roman, Stéphane Vachon ed. Montréal/Paris:
XYZ Éditeur/Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1996. 409-21.
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