The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel: From 1800 to the Present

by Timothy A. Unwin

Book Overview

This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521495636
• ISBN13: 9780521495639
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 9.9"