| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 281 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
On the novel and the writing of literary history / Timothy Unwin -- Novels of testimony and the 'invention' of the modern French novel / Jann Matlock -- Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel / Alison Finch -- Women and fiction in the nineteenth century / Margaret Cohen -- Popular fiction in the nineteenth century / David Coward -- Decadence and the fin-de-siècle novel / Laurence M. Porter -- The Proustian revolution / Christie McDonald -- Formal experiment and innovation / David H. Walker -- Existentialism, engagement, ideology / Steven Ungar -- War and the Holocaust / Denis Boak -- From serious to popular fiction / Stephen F. Noreiko -- The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel / Françoise Lionnet -- The French-Canadian novel / Denis Boak -- Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel / Jane Winston -- Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory / Johnnie Gratton |
| Summary |
This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. Essays by acknowledged experts range widely over issues and texts, referring to earlier periods and other genres and literatures where relevant. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading, and there is a challenging reassessment of major figures and traditional views. All quotations are translated and there is a chronology and guide to further reading, making this an essential reference work for all those interested in modern French fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Unwin, Timothy A
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Cambridge University Press
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| ISBN |
0511222173 (electronic bk.) |
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0521495636 |
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0521499143 (pbk.) |
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1139000233 |
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9780511222177 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521495639 |
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9780521499149 (pbk.) |
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9781139000239 |
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(pb) |
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