{"product_id":"a-history-of-modern-french-literature-9780691157726","title":"A History of Modern French Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading.\"--Publishers Weekly \"[A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone preparing to teach a French literature survey for the first time will find the book a godsend.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Contributors, ix  Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories, 1  Christopher Prendergast  Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature, 20  David Coward  Erasmus and the \"First Renaissance\" in France, 47  Edwin M. Duval  Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity, 71  Raymond Geuss  Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman, 91  Wes Williams  Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator, 113  Timothy J. Reiss  Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse, 137  Hassan Melehy  Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy, 155  Timothy Hampton  Moliere, Theater, and Modernity, 171  Christopher Braider  Racine, Phedre, and the French Classical Stage, 190  Nicholas Paige  Lafayette: La Princesse de Cleves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction, 212  Katherine Ibbett  From Moralists to Libertines, 229  Eric Mechoulan  Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac, 250  Judith Sribnai  The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, 269  Larry F. Norman  Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth, 291  Nicholas Cronk  Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century, 312  Pierre Saint-Amand  Women's Voices in Enlightenment France, 330  Catriona Seth  Comedy in the Age of Reason, 351  Susan Maslan  Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 371  Kate E. Tunstall  Rousseau's First Person, 393  Joanna Stalnaker  Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac, 414  Aleksandar Stevic  Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red, 436  Sarah Rocheville and Etienne Beaulieu  Flaubert and Madame Bovary, 451  Peter Brooks  Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness, and Modernity, 470  Clive Scott  Mallarme and Poetry: Stitching the Random, 495  Roger Pearson  Becoming Proust in Time, 514  Michael Lucey  Celine\/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s, 534  Steven Ungar  Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry, 554  Mary Ann Caws  Cesaire: Poetry and Politics, 575  Mary Gallagher  Sartre's La Nausee and the Modern Novel, 595  Christopher Prendergast  Beckett's French Contexts, 615  Jean-Michel Rabate  Djebar and the Birth of \"Francophone\" Literature, 634  Nicholas Harrison  Acknowledgments, 653  Index, 655","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403797635415,"sku":"9780691157726","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691157726.jpg?v=1730484573","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-modern-french-literature-9780691157726","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}