Shortlisted for the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
The first modern translation for more than fifty years and the first critical edition of A Love Story, the eighth novel in Zola's ... Read more
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Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social appropriateness of anger and gratitude in regulating social ... Read more
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Widely recognized as the best short book on Barthes' work and influence
Barthes is the most 'reader-friendly' of the great French theorists of the twentieth century, and thus among the most popul ... Read more
In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of grammar and stylistic convention. But the hesitation, anno ... Read more
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Dignified Retreat is a panoramic study of the vibrant literary and intellectual culture that emerged in early seventeenth-century France following the devastating Wars of Religion. This was a period t ... Read more
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Epic Arts in Renaissance France studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Why, the book asks, the epic heroes and themes so ub ... Read more
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Focuses on texts that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices
Explores the notion of the 'problematic hero'
Introduces a number of maj ... Read more
In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single page of the hundred thousand licentious pages with ... Read more
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In the first half of the nineteenth century most leading French Romantic authors wrote travel books. French Romantic Travel Writing is the first study exclusively devoted to surveying the travelogues ... Read more
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To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux' ... Read more
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