A history of modern French literature : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prendergast, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 725 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction (1). Aims, methods, stories / Christopher Prendergast

Introduction (2). The Frenchness of French literature / David Coward

Erasmus and the "first Renaissance" in France / Edwin M. Duval

Rabelais and the low road to modernity / Raymond Geuss

Marguerite de Navarre : Renaissance woman / Wes Williams

Ronsard : poet laureate, public intellectual, cultural creator / Timothy J. Reiss

Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue française / Hassan Melehy

Montaigne : philosophy before philosophy / Timothy Hampton

Molière, theater, and modernity / Christopher Braider

Racine, Phèdre, and the French classical stage / Nicholas Paige

Lafayette : La Princesse de Clèves and the conversational culture of seventeenth-century fiction / Katherine Ibbett

From moralists to libertines / Eric Méchoulan

Travel narratives in the seventeenth century : La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai

The quarrel of the ancients and the moderns / Larry F. Norman

Boltaire's Candide : lessons of enlightenment and the search for truth / Nicholas Cronk

Disclosures of the boudoir : the novel in the eighteenth century / Pierre Saint-Amand

Women's voices in enlightenment France / Catriona Seth

Comedy in the age of reason / Susan Maslan

Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the figure of the Philosophe in eighteenth-century Paris / Kate E. Tunstall

Rousseau's first person / Joanna Stalnaker

Realism, the bildungsroman, and the art of self-invention : Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stević

Hugo and romantic drama : the (k)night of the red / Sarah Rocheville and Etienne Beaulieu

Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Peter Brooks

Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud : poetry, consciousness, and modernity / Clive Scott

Mallarmé and poetry : stitching the random / Roger Pearson

Becoming Proust in time / Michael Lucey

Céline/Malraux : politics and the novel in the 1930s / Steven Ungar

Breton, Char, and modern French poetry / Mary Ann Caws

Césaire : poetry and politics / Mary Gallagher

Sartre's La Nausée and the modern novel / Christopher Prendergast

Beckett's French contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté

Djebar and the birth of "Francophone" literature / Nicholas Harrison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691157726

0691157723

OCLC:

948360470