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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781400885046

Content: This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the sixteenth century with the formation of a modern national literary consciousness, and ends in the late twentieth century with the idea of the "national" coming increasingly into question as inherited meanings of "French" and "Frenchness" expand beyond the geographical limits of mainland France. Provides an exciting new account of French literary history from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century Features more than thirty original essays on key writers, works, and topics, written by a distinguished transatlantic group of scholars Includes an introduction and index The contributors include Etienne Beaulieu, Christopher Braider, Peter Brooks, Mary Ann Caws, David Coward, Nicholas Cronk, Edwin M. Duval, Mary Gallagher, Raymond Geuss, Timothy Hampton, Nicholas Harrison, Katherine Ibbett, Michael Lucey, Susan Maslan, Eric Méchoulan, Hassan Melehy, Larry F. Norman, Nicholas Paige, Roger Pearson, Christopher Prendergast, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Timothy J. Reiss, Sarah Rocheville, Pierre Saint-Amand, Clive Scott, Catriona Seth, Judith Sribnai, Joanna Stalnaker, Aleksandar Stević, Kate E. Tunstall, Steven Ungar, and Wes Williams.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Contributors -- , Introduction (1) / , Introduction (2) / , Erasmus and the “First Renaissance” in France / , Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity / , Marguerite de Navarre / , Ronsard / , Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse / , Montaigne / , Molière, Theater, and Modernity / , Racine, Phèdre, and the French Classical Stage / , Lafayette / , From Moralists to Libertines / , Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century / , The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / , Voltaire’s Candide / , Disclosures of the Boudoir / , Women’s Voices in Enlightenment France / , Comedy in the Age of Reason / , Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth- Century Paris / , Rousseau’s First Person / , Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self- Invention / , Hugo and Romantic Drama / , Flaubert and Madame Bovary / , Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud / , Mallarmé and Poetry / , Becoming Proust in Time / , Céline/Malraux / , Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry / , Césaire / , Sartre’s La nausée and the Modern Novel / , Beckett’s French Contexts / , Djebar and the Birth of “Francophone” Literature / , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400885046

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400885046