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Book SynopsisThis History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel''s medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of ''the Hexagon'' to explore France''s colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women''s writing, Sade''s banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and
Trade Review'Watt taps the expertise of 40 scholars, including a sprinkling of well-known authors, with the aim to 'support, stimulate and illuminate' the reading of novels written in French … the volume succeeds, as promised, in offering a means of rethinking the development and scope of the novel in French … Recommended.' A. H. Pasco, CHOICE
Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Adam Watt; Part I. Beginnings: From the Late Medieval to Mme de Lafayette: 1. Late-Medieval Precursors to the Novel: 'Aucune Chose de Nouvel' Helen Swift; 2. Cultural Transmission and the Early French Novel Linda Louie and Timothy Hampton; 3. The Rise of the Novel in Sixteenth-Century France? Virginia Krause; 4. The Evolution of the Novel System in the Long Seventeenth Century Nicholas D. Paige; 5. Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers and the Novel: A Challenge to Literary History Faith E. Beasley; 6. Madame de Lafayette and La Princesse de Clèves as Landmark John D. Lyons; Part II. The Eighteenth Century: Learning, Letters, Libertinage: 7. The Early French Novel and the Circum-Atlantic Pamela Cheek; 8. Anglo-French Relations and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Gillian Dow; 9. The Fiction of Diderot and Rousseau Caroline Warman; 10. The Memoir Novel Jenny Mander; 11. Epistolary Fiction: The Novel in the Postal Age Elizabeth C. Goldsmith; 12. The Libertine Novel Marine Ganofsky; 13. Sade and the Novel Will McMorran; Part III. After the Revolution: The Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century: 14. Post-Revolutionary Novels Katherine Astbury; 15. Private Pain and the Public Temper: The Personal Novel and Beyond Patrick O'Donovan; 16. Between Romance and Social Critique: Staël and Women Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century Alison Finch; 17. French Realism and History Maria Scott; 18. Law and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Andrew J. Counter; 19. Colonial Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Novel Jennifer Yee; 20. French-Canadian Novels from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century Andrea Cabajsky; 21. Gender and the Novel from Sand to Colette Nigel Harkness; Part IV. From Naturalism to the Nouveau Roman: 22. The Republic of Novels: Politics and Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction Claire White; 23. Medicine, Sex and the Novel; Maupassant; Rachilde; Michael R. Finn; 24. The Roman-Fleuve Ashok Collins; 25. Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Adam Watt; 26. The Novel in France between the Wars Simon Kemp; 27. Existentialism and the Novel Ursula Tidd; 28. Suspicion and Novelty: The Nouveau Roman Hannah Freed-Thall; 29. The Holocaust and the Novel in French Colin Davis; Part V. Fictions of the Fifth Republic: From de Gaulle to the Internet Age: 30. Oulipo, Experiment and the Novel Anna Kemp; 31. Theories of the Novel Thomas Baldwin; 32. The Caribbean Novel in French 1958–2016 Maeve McCusker; 33. The North African Novel in French Jane Hiddleston; 34. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Novel in French Lydie Moudileno; 35. The Translingual Novel in French Charles Forsdick; 36. Literary Prizes Nicholas Hewitt; 37. Autofiction: Writing Lives Samuel Ferguson; 38. Trends in the Novel in French after 2000 Akane Kawakami; 39. Contemporary Women's Writing in French Amaleena Damlé; 40. The Novel in French and the Internet Erika Fülöp; Chronology; Further Reading; Index.
