This book examines and interrogates the gendered process of nation-building through literature which led to the formation... Læs mere
This book, focusing on the nature of representation and exchange in the seventeenth century, shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Antoine Furetiere was placed to explore a changing literary economy marked by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet.
English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940
This book discusses the English translations of Cervantes's works, the literary genres which developed in his shadow, and the best-known authors who consciously emulated him. It explores the Cervantes's influence upon British literature.
This book explores the importance of Jacques Derrida in French philosophy and France's idea of what studying 'philosophy' might mean after the... Læs mere
In this book, Jennifer Yee examines the ways in which the imperialist enterprise is subverted in the French nineteenth-century exotic literature through detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
This book presents an interdisciplinary account of a success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. It includes... Læs mere
Il Teatro di Eduardo de Filippo
This book seeks to challenge conventionally accepted views of David Bergelson's achievement by... Læs mere
In this book, Claire Boyle presents an account of the death of autobiography in the post-war era of French literature. She challenges assumptions that are sometimes made about why it is that writers are reluctant to be associated with the genre of autobiography.
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004.