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

by Timothy A. Unwin

Book Overview

This volume offers an insight into the French novel over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including 19th-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel and postmodern fiction. It offers a reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521499143
• ISBN13: 9780521499149
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"