This book demonstrates instead the writers' use of irony and allegory in struggling against the d...

In this interdisciplinary study of sentimental discourse of the late eighteenth century, David J....

Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds ...

A full-length study of Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of id...

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature, first published in 2001, explores how cultural c...

Michè le Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism alters the themes in French c...

This book studies the first-person position adopted by many of the medieval troubadours of southe...

Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism...

Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great no...

This is a study of the place and nature of the ideal of politeness in seventeenth- and eighteenth...

Elza Adamowicz presents an analysis of surrealist collage, both as a technique of cutting and pas...

This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contempo...

This book presents an innovative analysis of the role of imagination as a central concept in both...

This book reassesses the love poetry of Maurice Sc ve from a phenomenological viewpoint.

In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' appro...

Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-c...

According to Rousseau, the best possible relationship between unequals is one of 'beneficence', g...

Originally published in 1999, this was the first comprehensive account of the work of the French ...

In this new reading of Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris Margery Evans proposes that Baudelaire's t...

Dr Scott examines the intimate life of words in verse, with all their fluctuations of meaning, mo...

Michè le Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism alters the themes in French c...

The modern term 'Romantic' coined in Germany reached Europe and America through Stael's best-sell...

This wide-ranging study explores the ideological framework of genre in Old French and Occitan lit...

Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds ...

An analysis of how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France.

Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was...

This book casts new light on the life and work of François Villon, one of the most famous but lea...

Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth cen...

Major study of one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and theorists.

Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in ord...

Taylor explores the work of Francois Villon and his relationship to his predecessors and contempo...

Perpetual Motion is a collection of studies which aims to offer new sightlines between surrealism...

This book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the co...

This book offers crucial perspectives on the vexed question of chronology in Flaubert's work.

This is the first major study of naturalist fiction as a distinct literary genre. It focuses main...

In this major study Rhiannon Goldthorpe takes up the challenge of Sartre's diversity in an origin...

The idea of the 'project' crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when wr...

This book analyzes the relationship between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-centur...

In this book, Jeffrey Mehlman dwells on the series of enigmas surrounding the 'Blanchot affair,' ...

This study challenges the commonplace view that all courtly literature promoted the social status...

This study of Baudelaire's writings applies the principles of socioanalysis to literary history a...

This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems.

The most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France.

Gillian Jondorf challenges the traditional critical approaches to French Renaissance theater, ree...

Originally published in 1999, this was the first comprehensive account of the work of the French ...

An important new critical analysis of Derrida's theory of writing, based upon close readings of k...

Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.

The present collection brings together all Professor Cocking's main writings on Proust in a singl...