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The Editorial Board of Nineteenth-Century French Studies is pleased to announce the publication of volume 48 numbers 3–4 (Spring–Summer 2020). In addition to a roundtable Incipit dialogue on gender studies edited by Rachel Mesch, the issue includes a range of articles and reviews that highlight the breadth of the discipline: from smoke and mirrors, needles and pens, prehistoric bodies, barbarism, antisemitism, and bibliophilia to Hugo, the American West, mass violence, and the voice of the reader. As such, it continues the journal’s longstanding tradition of covering the full range of studies of nineteenth-century French literature and related fields.A full table of contents is below and also online at www.ncfs-journal.org.All of the journal’s book reviews from this volume are accessible online and without subscription. In addition, the web site offers complete archives of the journal’s publications since it began in 1972: table of contents from every issue, abstracts of all of the articles, and all of the book reviews published online. Finally, the web site also provides complete information about all aspects of the journal’s activities.Nineteenth-Century French Studies volume 48, numbers 3–4 / Spring–Summer 2020INCIPITColin Foss, François Proulx, Raisa Rexer, and Jessica Tanner, edited by Rachel MeschIncipit: Reflections on Gender Studies in Our Field ARTICLESMichelle C. LeeThe Fantastic (as) Negligent Orientalism in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin  Clint BruceLooking at the Colonial Atlantic, Ironically: Slavery and the Idea of Africa in Eugène Sue’s Atar-Gull Amy WigelsworthSmoke and Mirrors: Secret Societies and Self-Reflexivity in the mystères urbains Cory BrowningLiterary Terror to Advance Democracy? Victor Hugo, Rancière, and the Body Rachel SkokowskiThe Needle and the Pen: Etching and the Goncourt Brothers’ Novels Soundouss El KettaniZola épistolier ou comment se réhabiliter par les lettres Helen CraskePartners in Crime? Scandalous Complicity Between Rachilde and Jean Lorrain Alexandre DuboisL’écriture en suspension ou l’“action restreinte” de Mallarmé  REVIEWS  OF PAINTERS AND PAINTINGS Parker, Shalon. Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century FranceAlexandre Bonafos Allan, Scott, et al., editors. Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years Louis Marvick O’Brien, David. Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and BarbarismTom Stammers  ALL ABOUT HUGO Grossman, Kathryn M., and Bradley Stephens, editors. Les Misérables and its Afterlives: Between Page, Stage, and ScreenHugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Edited by Henri Scepi with the collaboration of Dominique Moncond’huyStéphanie Boulard Bellos, Davis. The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les MisérablesSarah E. Mosher  FRANCE’S OTHERS Bell, Dorian. Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European CultureSeth Graebner Burns, Emily C. Transnational Frontiers: The American West in France Jennifer Forrest  CELEBRITIES Marcus, Sharon. The Drama of CelebrityKathryn A. Haklin Jarry, Charlotte. Lettres à Rachilde et Alfred Vallette (1907–1918) Melanie Hawthorne Schuerewegen, Franc. Le Vestiaire de Chateaubriand Flavien Bertran de Balanda  READERS, WRITERS, AND POETS Diaz, José-Luis, et Marine Le Bail, éditeurs. L’Histoire littéraire des bibliophilesElsa Courant Absalyamova, Elina, and Valérie Stiénon, editors. Les Voix du lecteur dans la presse française au XIXe siècleJena Whitaker Cabanès, Jean-Louis. La Fabrique des valeurs dans la littérature du XIXe siècle Florence Vatan Valazza, Nicolas. La Poésie délivrée: le livre en question du Parnasse à Mallarmé Sarah Hastings-Rudolf  LES BAS-FONDS Brown, Howard G. Mass Violence and the Self: From the French Wars of Religion to the Paris CommuneColin Foss Legacey, Erin-Marie. Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830Céline Brossillon Díaz Cornide, Martina. La Belle Époque des amours fétichistes Michael R. Finn