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Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into ……続きを見る

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Michael Tobin's study is part literary criticism, part biography. Tobin follows Bernanos and his family from France to Spain during the Civil War and then to Brazil and North Africa. He also provide……続きを見る

As an example of Dickens 's literary work, A Tale of Two Cities is not wrongly named. It is his most typical contact with the civil ideals of Europe. All his other tales have been tales of one city.……続きを見る

This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novelsーthat is, novels by French autho……続きを見る

Natif de Brignoles, en Provence et parlant parfaitement la langue provencale, Antoine Albalat , un érudit de la chose littéraire, est en superbe position pour nous offrir ce magnifiqu……続きを見る

The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century Europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues that during th……続きを見る

There are few figures more important in literary and critical theory than Jacques Derrida. Whether lauded or condemned, his writing has had far-reaching ramifications, and his work on deconstruction……続きを見る

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), reporter, voyageuse et aventurière, née à Genève le 17 février 1877 décédée à Aïn-Sefra (Algérie) le 21 octobre 1904. Très impressionnante, l'histoire de sa vie fait ……続きを見る

Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel i……続きを見る

Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents,……続きを見る

Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She arg……続きを見る

Madame Bovary (1856) is Gustave Flaubert's first published novel and is considered by many critics to be a masterpiece. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who hasadulterous affairs a……続きを見る

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This book is the fourth of seven volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's popular translation of Proust's massive semi-autobiographical novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Li……続きを見る

Antoine Albalat (1856-1935), spécialiste de la littérature française et auteur bien connu de plusieurs manuels sur l'art d'écrire. Le but de ce livre : «Il ne ……続きを見る

‘What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delici……続きを見る

The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Called by some the French Borges, by others the crea……続きを見る

This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our ……続きを見る

With this book, we enter the home stretch of Marcel Proust's massive seven-volume novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). The whole work, itself, was ……続きを見る

Depending on the version you read, after almost four thousand pages, the reader can be forgiven for feeling exhausted before embarking upon the seventh volume of Proust's massive masterpiece A la re……続きを見る

The sixteenth century in France was marked by religious warfare and shifting political and physical landscapes. Between 1549 and 1584, however, the Pléiade poets, including Pierre de Ronsard, Joachi……続きを見る

In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing ……続きを見る

The celebrated novelist and influential cultural critic's classic biography of one of history's most important writers, Marcel Proust If there is anyone worthy of producing an intimate biography of ……続きを見る

The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, a……続きを見る

Uncovers the neglected role of translation in Angela Carter's fairy-tale-inspired fiction. In translating Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralité……続きを見る

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Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in……続きを見る

An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admiredーand entertainingーnovels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing……続きを見る

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. 続きを見る