A history of modern French literature
Subtitle: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century
By: edited by Christopher Prendergast
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9780691157726
Subjects: French literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories / Christopher Prendergast; title: Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature / David Coward; title: Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France / Edwin M. Duval; title: Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity / Raymond Geuss; title: Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman / Wes Williams; title: Ronsard : Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator / Timothy Reiss; title: Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse / Hassan Melehy; title: Montaigne  : Philosophy before Philosophy / Timothy Hampton; title: Molière, Theater, and Modernity / Christopher Braider; title: Racine, Phèdre and the French Classical Stage / Nicholas Paige; title: Lafayette : La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction / Katherine Ibbett; title: From Moralists to Libertines / Eric Méchoulan; title: Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century : La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai; title: The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / Larry F. Norman; title: Voltaire's Candide : Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth / Nicholas Cronk; title: Disclosures of the Boudoir : The Novel in the Eighteenth Century / Pierre Saint-Amand; title: Women's Voices in Enlightenment France / Catriona Seth; title: Comedy in the Age of Reason / Susan Maslan; title: Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Kate E. Tunstall; title: Rousseau's First Person / Joanna Stalnaker; title: Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention : Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stević; title: Hugo and Romantic Drama : The (K)night of the Red / Sarah Rocheville and Étienne Beaulieu; title: Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Peter Brooks; title: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud : Poetry, Consciousness and Modernity / Clive Scott; title: Mallarmé and Poetry : Stitching the Random / Roger Pearson; title: Becoming Proust in Time / Michael Lucey; title: Céline/Malraux : Politics and the Novel in the 1930s / Steven Ungar; title: Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry / Mary Ann Caws; title: Césaire : Poetry and Politics / Mary Gallagher; title: Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel / Christopher Prendergast; title: Beckett's French Contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté; title: Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature / Nicholas Harrison.