# R. H. Gapper Book Prize

The R. Gapper Book Prize, originally titled R.H. Gapper Book Prize, offered by the Society for French Studies, is a monetary prize that was inaugurated in 2002 and has since been awarded annually for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland. Since 2014 the prize has been named the R. Gapper prize, in honour of both Richard Paul Charles Gapper and his father.

## Table of winners

| Year | Author | Book |
| 2019 (joint) | Peter Dayan | The Music of Dada: A Lesson in Intermediality for our Times (London: Routledge, 2018) |
| 2019 (joint) | Derek OffordVladislav RjeoutskiGésine Argent | The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural and Literary History (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, ISBN 9789462982727) |
| 2018 | Julian Swann | Exile, Imprisonment or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789 (Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 9780198788690) |
| 2017 | Roger Pearson | Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France (Oxford University Press, 2016) |
| 2016 (joint) | Neil Kenny | Death and Tenses: Posthumous Presence in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 2015) |
| 2016 (joint) | Patrick McGuinness | Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to Action Française (Oxford University Press, 2015) |
| 2015 | Robert Mills | Seeing sodomy in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2014) |
| 2014 | Christopher Prendergast | Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the skeptic (Princeton University Press, 2013) |
| 2013 | Siân Reynolds | Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur et Madame Roland (Oxford University Press, 2012) |
| 2012 | Michael Moriarty | Disguised Vices. Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | Judith Still | Derrida and Hospitality: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) |
| 2010 | Ardis Butterfield | The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) |
| 2009 | Alain Viala | La France galante (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008) |
| 2008 (joint) | Christopher Prendergast | The Classic. Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| 2008 (joint) | Mark Greengrass | Governing Passions. Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 | Eric Robertson | Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor (Yale University Press, 2006) |
| 2006 | Maria C. Scott | Baudelaire’s ‘Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives (Ashgate Publishing, 2005) |
| 2005 | Roger Pearson | Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford University Press, 2004) |
| 2004 | Sylvia Huot | Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities lost and found (Oxford University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Clive Scott | Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002) |
| 2002 | Stephen Bann | Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale University Press, 2001) |