A history of modern French literature : from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century /
edited by Christopher Prendergast.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.
- vii, 725 p. : 24 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories / Christopher Prendergast -- Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature / David Coward -- Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France / Edwin M. Duval -- Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity / Raymond Geuss -- Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman / Wes Williams -- Pierre Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator / Timothy Reiss -- Du Bellay and La Deffence et illustration de la langue française / Hassan Melehy -- Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy / Timothy Hampton -- Molière, Theater, and Modernity / Christopher Braider -- Racine, Phèdre and the French Classical Stage / Nicholas Paige -- Listening In: Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction / Katherine Ibbett -- From Moralists to Libertines / Eric Méchoulan -- Women's Voices in Enlightenment France / Catriona Seth -- The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns / Larry F. Norman -- Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth / Nicholas Cronk -- Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century / Pierre Saint Amand -- Comedy in the Age of Reason / Susan Maslan -- Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau, and the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Kate Tunstall -- Rousseau's First Person / Joanna Stalnaker -- Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac / Judith Sribnai -- Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac / Aleksandar Stevi -- Victor Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red / Sarah Rocheville and Étienne Beaulieu -- Flaubert and Madame Bovary / Peter Brooks -- Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness and Modernity / Clive Scott -- Mallarmé and Poetry: Stitching the Random / Roger Pearson -- Becoming Proust in Time / Michael Lucey -- Céline/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s / Steven Ungar -- André Breton, René Char, and Modern French Poetry / Mary Ann Caws -- Aimé Césaire: Poetry and Politics / Mary Gallagher -- Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel / Christopher Prendergast -- Beckett's French Contexts / Jean-Michel Rabaté -- Assia Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature / Nicholas Harrison.
"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.