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  • Balzac's Omeletteby Anka Muhlstein; Adriana Hunter

    Haus Publishing 2013; US$ 9.95

    Full of surprise and insights, Balzac?s Omelette invites you to taste anew French literature and cuisine. more...

  • A Season in Hell & Illuminationsby Arthur Rimbaud; Wyatt Mason

    Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 11.95

    Translated, edited and with an Introduction by Wyatt Mason ?The definitive translation for our time.? ?Edward Hirsch From Dante?s Inferno to Sartre?s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud?s A Season in Hell ?written when the poet was nineteen?provides an astonishing... more...

  • Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literatureby Marianne Legault

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 99.95

    Examining literary discourses on female intimacy in seventeenth-century France, this study explores the effect of a homosocial and homopriviledged heritage on the deployment and constructions of female friendship and homoerotic relationships as thematic narratives in works by male and female writers. It reveals a new literary genealogy of female intimate... more...

  • Complete Poemsby Charles Baudelaire; Walter Martin

    Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64

    Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... more...

  • Material Figuresby Margueritte S. Murphy

    Editions Rodopi 2012; US$ 65.00

    Ideological debates about economics and aesthetics raged hotly in nineteenth-century France. French political economy was taking shape as a discipline that would support free-market liberalism, while l’art pour l’art theories circulated, and utopian systems with aesthetic and economic agendas proliferated. Yet, as this book argues, the discourses... more...

  • Ned Ludd & Queen Mabby Peter Linebaugh

    PM Press 2012; US$ 3.99

    Peter Linebaugh, in an extraordinary historical and literary tour de force, enlists the anonymous and scorned 19th century loom-breakers of the English midlands into the front ranks of an international, polyglot, many-colored crew of commoners resisting dispossession in the dawn of capitalist modernity. more...

  • Seeing Doubleby Françoise Meltzer

    University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00

    The 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...

  • Mallarmeby Jacques Ranciere; Steven Corcoran

    Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 15.95

    In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancire, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stphane Mallarm.Ranciere presents Mallarm as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal... more...

  • Figurations of Franceby Marcus Keller

    University of Delaware 2011; US$ 79.99

    The 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...

  • The Shock of the Ancientby Larry F. Norman

    University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 36.00

    The 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...