MLR, ioo.i, 2005 213 thus becomes, for Flaubert, a 'relic or fetish of failed, and mourned, Revolutionary likeness' (p. 212). This study joins a growing body of works seeking to re-evaluate Romanticism, and to dispel tenacious myths which link its solipsism with unselfconsciousness , and hence relegate it to the second division of a literary league in which works characterized by irony and self-reflexivity are championed. There are, in a study of such boundless scope and curiosity, inevitably moments of diffuseness in the analysis, in which the all-encompassing reach of the concept of mimesis teeters on the verge of meaninglessness. However, Jenson's complex and wide-ranging theore? tical framework and the interdisciplinary perspectives which she unfolds make this an important reconsideration of French Romanticism. Queen's University Belfast Nigel Harkness Les Jardins de Zola: psychanalyse etpaysage mythiquedans %es Rougon-Macquart \ By Olivier Got. (Critiques Litteraires) Paris: L'Harmattan. 2002. 255 pp. ?22. ISBN 2-7475-3159-7. This book examines, from a resolutely Freudian perspective, novels in the RougonMacquart series (La Fortune des Rougon, La Curee, La Faute de Vabbe Mouret, Une page d'amour, La Joie de vivre, Le Reve, Le Docteur Pascal) containing significant natural landscapes (all gardens with the exception of the sea in La Joie de vivre). Set? ting out to 'considerer le paysage zolien comme une metaphore generalisee' (p. 17), it appears chiefly concerned with the identification in all these works of 'une meme problematique oedipienne' (p. 20), particularly as outlined in The Interpretation of Dreams, and of the particular biblical or ancient myth underpinning each. So, for example, in La Faute de Vabbe Mouret, the various symbols within the Paradou (in? cluding 'statues renversees', 'nappe d'eau', 'vegetations', respectively representing 'castration', 'virginite', 'penetration?' (p. 43)) combine to make the garden ie double symbolique du corps de la jeune fille [Albine]' (p. 73). At the same time the garden is the cause of the 'faute', in a secular refiguration of Genesis?a 'carte de tendre naturaliste' (p. 29). Olivier Got identifies similar symbolism in other works, focusing on salient features such as opening and closure (La Fortune des Rougon), seasonal change and (blood) sacrifice (Une page d'amour), the ia mer'/ia mere' correspon? dence (La Joie de vivre), and linking them to their respective 'mythes fondateurs'. The interpretation is acknowledged as 'aventureuse' (p. 43), but textual illustrations which are very suggestive from the perspective embraced are judiciously chosen. The adoption of this line of analysis might have been made more effective by greater contextualization; there is a considerable assumption of knowledge both of Freud and of ancient mythology. A feature many readers will find puzzling and irritating is the regular reference to Zola's personal experiences as key to analysis of his novels. While this does not seriously affect the validity of the rest of the analysis, consisting of psychoanalytical/mythological readings of the texts, such biographical reductivity becomes problematic when it takes up a considerable part of the book's closing argument. Here the most important feature the key fictional spaces discussed have in common appears to be their link with ia vie affectivede Zola' (for example, under the heading 'La mer' is found a discussion of Zola's reaction to ia mort de sa mere' (p. 236)). Zola would doubtless have been an interesting subject for psy? choanalysis, but what does this reveal, psychoanalytically speaking, about the texts? A serious shortcoming of this work is its appalling typographical inaccuracy. The book is riddled with formatting and grammatical errors. Thankfully this does not interferefatally with the analytical content of what is forthe most part, biographical 214 Reviews conjecture aside, an interesting and persuasive addition to scholarship on naturalist spatial poetics. University of Queensland Larry Duffy Preraphaelismeet symbolisme:peinture litteraireet imagepoetique. By Laurence Brogniez . (Romantismeetmodernites, 63) Paris: Champion. 2003. 403 pp.; 30plates. ?70. ISBN 2-7453-0729-0. This authoritative study offersus a richly suggestive exploration of one of the most fruitfulperiods of artistic exchange between Great Britain and the Continent, with its lucid analysis of the ways in which the themes of the Pre-Raphaelite painters came to influence writers in France and Belgium. Laurence Brogniez charts the course...