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1 online resource |
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- Pierre Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator / Timothy 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 -- Listening In: Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction / Katherine Ibbett -- From Moralists to Libertines / Eric Méchoulan -- Women's Voices in Enlightenment France / Catriona Seth -- The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / Larry F. Norman -- Voltaire'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 -- Comedy in the Age of Reason / Susan Maslan -- Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau, and the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Kate Tunstall -- Rousseau's First Person / Joanna Stalnaker -- Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai -- Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stević -- Victor Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red / Sarah Rocheville and Étienne 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 -- André Breton, René Char, and Modern French Poetry / Mary Ann Caws -- Aimé Césaire: Poetry and Politics / Mary Gallagher -- Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel / Christopher Prendergast -- Beckett's French Contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Assia Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature / Nicholas Harrison. |
| Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism.
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| Related To |
Print version: Prendergast, Christopher. History of Modern French Literature. Princeton University Press, 2017 9780691157726 0691157723 (DLC) 2016009876 (OCoLC)948360470 |
| Standard No. |
974766767 |
| ISBN |
1400885043 (electronic bk.) |
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9781400885046 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691157726 |
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0691157723 |
| OCLC # |
jseba967394765 |
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