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Parisian Fields
Reaktion Books 1997; US$ 55.00Perhaps no world city has so many resonances, on so many levels, as Paris. Cafe society, demi-monde , the intellectual life, film-makers and writers... Paris has fragmented socially, sexually, intellectually and linguistically into many fields. Parisian Fields sets out to investigate some of these. The writers investigate how Paris has been both... more...
Proust, the Body and Literary Form
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Michael Finn examines the vogue for nervous afflictions in late nineteenth-century France, and relates Proust's anxieties about hysteria to his concern about literary form. Finn reveals Proust's novel as deeply concerned with bodily and literary hysteria, his writing technique is one which calls into question the conventions of fiction. more...
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00In this book Floyd Gray explores how the treatment of controversial subjects in French Renaissance writing was affected by rhetorical conventions and the commercial requirements of an expanding publishing industry. Gray offers new readings of a wide range of discourses on gender issues - misogynist, feminist, autobiographical, homosexual and medical. more...
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Nicholas White examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures of the period. more...
Michel Leiris
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 42.00This is the first full-length study in English of Michel Leiris's work. Frequently cited as a central figure in contemporary French culture, Seán Hand explores Leiris's participation in some of the most striking intellectual and artistic movements of the twentieth century; surrealism, ethnography and existentialism amongst others. more...
Simone de Beauvoir, Gender and Testimony
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of ideas on selfhood formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays. Ursula Tidd offers new readings of Beauvoir's unpublished diaries and recently published letters along with more well-known texts. more...
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00This book on Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999), one of France's most distinguished twentieth century novelists, is the first major study in English to appear since her death. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings. more...
Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 40.00Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: Pierre Loti, Paul Gauguin, Proust, Montherlant, Camus, and Jean Genet. more...
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 44.00Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literarature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture. more...
Reading the French Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00Julie Candler Hayes surveys the past fifty years of philosophical reflection on the Enlightenment, and takes issue both with traditional liberal and with contemporary critical accounts. Through close analysis of philosophical, scientific, and literary texts, she emphasizes the urgency of maintaining a dialogue between past and present, Enlightenment... more...
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