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The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Examining both familiar and underappreciated early modern texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that four writers-Joachim Du Bellay, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, and William Shakespeare -conceived with both their classical and modern predecessors. Melehy sheds new light on pertinent issues in early modern studies, including translation,... more...
Madame Bovary at the Movies
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 61.60Some eighteen film directors from France to the United States, Germany to India, have applied themselves to the task of adapting Madame Bovary to the screen. Why has Flauberts 1857 classic novel been so popular with filmmakers? What challenges have they had to meet? What ideologies do their adaptations serve? Madame Bovary at the Movies seeks... more...
Lécriture hospitalière
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 64.40LEcriture hospitalière porte sur la pratique intertextuelle des Trois Contes de Flaubert. Cest en particulier La Légende de saint Julien lHospitalier qui autorise cette investigation : plus quaucune autre uvre de Flaubert en effet, ce conte obéit à une logique citationnelle. Le conte sacrifie loriginalité... more...
Stéphane Mallarmé
Reaktion Books 2010; US$ 20.95This concise biography of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842?98) blends an account of the poet?s life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. ?A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet,? he declared at the age of twenty-two?but wh more...
The Birth of European Romanticism
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 42.00An important study of the book which invented European Romanticism, Staël's De l'Allemagne. more...
Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Traditional scholarship on French liberalism has frequently proceeded by defining the core issues and telling a story of their emergence and development. This book takes a different approach: rather than beginning with an a priori definition of liberalism, it focuses on the political thought of Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël, the first... more...
The Shock of the Ancient
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00The cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most often been depicted as pitting antiquarian conservatives against the insurgent critics of established... more...
Figurations of France
University of Delaware 2011; US$ 79.99The century of political, religious and cultural turmoil that shook France after the sudden death of Francis I in 1547 was also a period of intense literary nation-building. This study shows how canonical authors contributed to the creation of the French as an imaginary community and argues that early modern literary texts also provide venues for an... more...
Paris Spleen
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 17.99A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century more...
Seeing Double
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing... more...









