Ourika: The Original French Text (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 3) (French Edition)
Joan DeJean's books reflect her areas of research: the history of women's writing in France (Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France); the history of sexuality (Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937); the development of the novel (Literary Fortifications;Libertine Strategies); and the cultural history and the material culture of late 17th- and early 18th-century France (Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle;The Essence of Style, 2005; The Age of Comfort).Margaret Waller is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. Her publications includeThe Male Malady: Fictions of Impotence in the French Romantic Novel(Rutgers UP, 1993) and a translation of Julia Kristeva'sRevolution in Poetic Language(Columbia UP, 1984).