The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present 0521495636, 0521499143, 9780521495639, 9781139000239, 1139000233

This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. Essays by ackno

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The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present
 0521495636, 0521499143, 9780521495639, 9781139000239, 1139000233

Table of contents :
Chronology
Note on literary prizes
Note on presentation
1. On the novel and the writing of literary history Timothy Unwin
2. Novels of testimony and the invention of the modern French novel Jann Matlock
3. Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel Alison Finch
4. Women and fiction in the nineteenth century Margaret Cohen
5. Popular fiction in the nineteenth century David Coward
6. Decadence and the fin-de siecle novel Laurence M. Porter
7. The Proustian revolution Christie McDonald
8. Formal experiment and innovation David H. Walker
9. Existentialism, engagement, ideology Steven Ungar
10. War and the Holocaust Denis Boak
11. From serious to popular fiction Stephen F. Noreiko
12. The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel Francoise Lionnet
13. The French Canadian novel Denis Boak
14. Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel Jane Winston
15. Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory Johnnie Gratton
General bibliography
Index.

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