| Description |
xxiii, 798 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
"From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinees, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that, despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and refocuses the rich legacy of its past"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 710-755) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond, Emma Wilson -- Manuscripts and manuscript culture / David F. Hult -- The troubadours : the Occitan model / William Burgwinkle -- The chanson de geste / Finn E. Sinclair -- Saints' lives, violence and community / Emma Campbell -- Myth and the matiere de Bretagne / Caroline Jewers -- Sexuality, shame and the genesis of romance / Zrinka Stahuljak -- Medieval lyric : the trouveres / Elizabeth W. Poe -- The grail / Miranda Griffin -- Women authors of the Middle Ages / Barbara K. Altmann -- Crusades and identity / Sharon Kinoshita -- Rhetoric and historiography : Villehardouin's 'La Conquête de Constantinople' / Noah D. Guynn -- Humour and the obscene / James R. Simpson -- Travel and orientalism / Simon Gaunt -- Allegory and interpretation / Karen Sullivan -- History and fiction : the narrativity and historiography of the matter of Troy / Marilynn Desmond -- Mysticism / Cary Howie -- Prose romance / Michelle R. Warren -- Rhetoric and theatre / Jody Enders -- The rise of metafiction in the late Middle Ages / Deborah McGrady -- What does Renaissance mean? / Philip Ford -- Sixteenth-century religious writing / Gary Ferguson -- Sixteenth-century poetry / James Helgeson -- Sixteenth-century theatre / Gillian Jondorf -- Women writers in the sixteenth century / Emily Butterworth -- Sixteenth-century prose narrative / John O'Brien -- Sixteenth-century thought / Neil Kenny -- Sixteenth-century travel writing / Wes Williams -- Sixteenth-century margins / Richard Regosin -- Tragedy : early to mid seventeenth century / John D. Lyons -- Tragedy : mid to late seventeenth century / Michael Hawcroft -- Seventeenth-century comedy / Larry F. Norman -- Seventeenth-century poetry / Alain Genetiot -- Seventeenth-century philosophy / Roger Ariew -- Seventeenth-century women writers / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- Moraliste writing in the seventeenth century / Richard Scholar -- Seventeenth-century prose narrative / Craig Moyes -- Seventeenth-century religious writing / Richard Parish -- Seventeenth-century margins / Nicholas Hammond -- What is Enlightenment? / John Leigh -- The eighteenth-century novel / William Edmiston -- The eighteenth-century conte / Robin Howells -- Eighteenth-century comic theatre / Russell Goulbourne -- Eighteenth-century theatrical tragedy / Joseph Harris -- Eighteenth-century women writers / Nadine Berenguier -- Eighteenth-century philosophy / Wilda Anderson -- Libertinage / Thomas Wynn -- Eighteenth-century travel / Jenny Mander -- Eighteenth-century margins / Pierre Saint-Amand -- The Roman personnel / Nigel Harkness -- Romanticism : art, literature and history / Michele Hannoosh -- Realism / Michael Lucey -- French poetry, 1793-1863 / Rosemary Lloyd -- Symbolism / Patrick McGuinness -- Madness and writing / Miranda Gill -- Literature and the city in the nineteenth century / Christopher Prendergast -- Nineteenth-century travel writing / Wendelin Guentner -- Philosophy and ideology in nineteenth-century France / Suzanne Guerlac -- Naturalism / Nicholas White -- Impressionism : art, literature and history, 1870-1914 / Robert Lethbridge -- Decadence / Hannah Thompson -- Avant-garde : text and image / Katharine Conley -- Autobiography / Claire Boyle -- The modern French novel / Martin Crowley -- The contemporary French novel / Michael Sheringham -- Existentialism / Andrew Leak -- Modern French thought / Colin Davis -- French drama in the twentieth century / David Bradby -- Twentieth-century poetry / Richard Stamelman -- Francophone writing / Nicholas Harrison -- Writing and postcolonial theory / Celia Britton -- Travel writing, 1914-2010 / Charles Forsdick -- French cinema, 1895-2010 / T. Jefferson Kline -- Writing, memory and history / Nicholas Hewitt -- Holocaust writing and film / Libby Saxton -- Women writers, artists and filmmakers / Emma Wilson -- French popular culture and the case of bande dessinee / Wendy Michallat -- Literature, film and new media / Isabelle McNeill. |
| Subject |
French literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Burgwinkle, William E., 1951-
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Hammond, Nicholas, 1963-
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Wilson, Emma, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9780521897860 (hardback) |
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0521897866 (hardback) |
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