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The Cambridge History of French Literature

Series The Cambridge History of French Literature

Edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson

Publication Date 2011

Hardback ISBN-10
0521897866

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521897860

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521897860

Overview

From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessinés, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that, despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and refocuses the rich legacy of its past.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson

Manuscripts and manuscript culture
by
David F. Hult

The troubadours: the Occitan model
by
William Burgwinkle

The chanson de geste
by
Finn E. Sinclair

Saints' lives, violence, and community
by
Emma Campbell

Myth and the matière de Bretagne
by
Caroline Jewers

Sexuality, shame, and the genesis of romance
by
Zrinka Stahuljak

Medieval lyric: the trouvères
by
Elizabeth W. Poe

The Grail
by
Miranda Griffin

Women authors of the Middle Ages
by
Barbara K. Altmann

Crusades and identity
by
Sharon Kinoshita

Rhetoric and historiography: Villehardouin's La Conquête de Constantinople
by
Noah D. Guynn

Humour and the obscene
by
James Simpson

Travel and orientalism
by
Simon Gaunt

Allegory and interpretation
by
Karen Sullivan

History and fiction: the narrativity and historiography of the matter of Troy
by
Marilynn Desmond

Mysticism
by
Cary Howie

Prose romance
by
Michelle R. Warren

Rhetoric and theatre
by
Jody Enders

The rise of metafiction in the late Middle Ages
by
Deborah McGrady

What does ‘Renaissance’ mean?
by
Philip Ford

Sixteenth-century religious writing
by
Gary Ferguson

Sixteenth-century poetry
by
James Helgeson

Sixteenth-century theatre
by
Gillian Jondorf

Women writers in the sixteenth century
by
Emily Butterworth

Sixteenth-century prose narrative
by
John O'Brien

Sixteenth-century thought
by
Neil Kenny

Sixteenth-century travel writing
by
Wes Williams

Sixteenth-century margins
by
Richard Regosin

Tragedy: early to mid seventeenth century
by
John D. Lyons

Tragedy: mid to late seventeenth century
by
Michael Hawcroft

Seventeenth-century comedy
by
Larry F. Norman

Seventeenth-century poetry
by
Alain Génetiot

Seventeenth-century philosophy
by
Roger Ariew

Seventeenth-century women writers
by
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith

Moraliste writing in the seventeenth century
by
Richard Scholar

Seventeenth-century prose narrative
by
Craig Moyes

Seventeenth-century religious writing
by
Richard Parish

Seventeenth-century margins
by
Nicholas Hammond

What is Enlightenment?
by
John Leigh

The eighteenth-century novel
by
William Edmiston

The eighteenth-century conte
by
Robin Howells

Eighteenth-century comic theatre
by
Russell Goulbourne

Eighteenth-century theatrical tragedy
by
Joseph Harris

Eighteenth-century women writers
by
Nadine Bérenguier

Eighteenth-century philosophy
by
Wilda Anderson

Libertinage
by
Thomas Wynn

Eighteenth-century travel
by
Jenny Mander

Eighteenth-century margins
by
Pierre Saint-Amand

The roman personnel
by
Nigel Harkness

Romanticism: art, literature, and history
by
Michéle Hannoosh

Realism
by
Michael Lucey

French poetry, 1793–1863
by
Rosemary Lloyd

Symbolism
by
Patrick McGuinness

Madness and writing
by
Miranda Gill

Literature and the city in the nineteenth century
by
Christopher Prendergast

Nineteenth-century travel writing
by
Wendelin Guentner

Philosophy and ideology in nineteenth-century France
by
Suzanne Guerlac

Naturalism
by
Nicholas White

Impressionism: art, literature, and history, 1870–1914
by
Robert Lethbridge

Decadence
by
Hannah Thompson

Avant-garde: text and image
by
Katharine Conley

Autobiography
by
Claire Boyle

The modern French novel
by
Martin Crowley

The contemporary French novel
by
Michael Sheringham

Existentialism
by
Andrew Leak

Modern French thought
by
Colin Davis

French drama in the twentieth century
by
David Bradby

Twentieth-century poetry
by
Richard Stamelman

Francophone writing
by
Nicholas Harrison

Writing and postcolonial theory
by
Celia Britton

Travel writing, 1914–2010
by
Charles Forsdick

French cinema, 1895–2010
by
T. Jefferson Kline

Writing, memory, and history
by
Nicholas Hewitt

Holocaust writing and film
by
Libby Saxton

Women writers, artists, and filmmakers
by
Emma Wilson

French popular culture and the case of bande dessinée
by
Wendy Michallat

Literature, film, and new media
by
Isabelle McNeill

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