Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A history of modern French literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

948360470

Responsibility statement

edited by Christopher Prendergast

Sub title

from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century

Table Of 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

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