Literary Studies / French Literature

This book examines the literary representation of gardens – a widespread motif in late medieval vernacular fiction – and the redeployment of classical material via vernacular translation.

Analysing the works of literary naturalists writing about art, this book argues for the importance of disorder in the French art world in the nineteenth century.

This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Mémoires d’Hadrien as an authentic portrait of a Roman emperor.

This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.

Exploring the Crimean War through literature, theatre, spectacle, and visual arts, this book reveals how and why a major war was forgotten.

Perfume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France explores literature, medicine, fashion, and social practices during the rise of modern French perfume culture.

Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.

Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

Patrick O’Neill approaches five of Kafka’s novels and short stories by considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.”

With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.

Why have so many diplomats been writers? Why have so many writers served as diplomats? This book provides some fascinating insights into the connections between literature and diplomacy.

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With an extensive index of musical and textual editions of dozens of songs, Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric brings a heretofore neglected genre to light.

Available for the first time in English, the Marquis de Sade’s Journey to Italy provides new insight into the early life and career of this famous radical libertine writer.

Victims of the Book shows how the adolescent male reader became a subject of grave social concern in late-nineteenth-century France and how a new generation of writers later reworked the novel to subvert cultural norms about masculinity.

In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxieties in the selected narratives of four women writing in French.