Cambridge Companion to the French Novel From 1800 to the Present

Name: Cambridge Companion to the French Novel From 1800 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780521495639

ISBN-10: 0521495636

ISBN-13: 9780521495639

Edition: 1997

Authors: Timothy Unwin

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This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. All quotations are translated and there is a chronology and guide to further reading.

Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/28/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.37" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Timothy Unwin is Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Bristol.



Chronology


Note on literary prizes


Note on presentation



On the novel and the writing of literary history




Novels of testimony and the invention of the modern French novel




Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel




Women and fiction in the nineteenth century




Popular fiction in the nineteenth century




Decadence and the fin-de siecle novel




The Proustian revolution




Formal experiment and innovation




Existentialism, engagement, ideology




War and the Holocaust




From serious to popular fiction




The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel




The French Canadian novel




Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel




Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory



General bibliography


Index