Lectures Croisees
Subtitle: Essays by Alan Raitt
Publisher: Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2014
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783034309295
Subjects: Flaubert, gustave, 1821-1880; French literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Authors, french
Description: This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in relation to each other, as well as to Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Huysmans. In so doing, the collection shows the extent to which nineteenth-century French literary history appears both as a succession and as a simultaneity of literary styles and credos. -- From publisher's website.