A Guide to French Literature by Jennifer Birkett
In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading public. Writers and writings relegated to the margins of the canon are reassessed. New directions in contemporary thought, women's writing and Francophone literature are a feature, together with important concepts of contemporary critical theory.
'This well-written, informed and wide-ranging survey of French Literature from the Renaissance to Francophonie provides a map which will be invaluable to students of French Studies in its widest sense' - Forum for Modern Language Studies
James Kearns is Emeritus Professor of French Nineteenth-Century Studies in the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on French art criticism, with particular reference to the Paris Fine Art Salon and the art journalism of Theophile Gautier. He is currently one of the team of researchers producing the first critical edition of Gautier's reviews of the Salon between 1833 and 1872.
Alister Mill completed his doctoral thesis on the Third-Republic Salon painter Alfred Philippe Roll at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he subsequently spent four years as Visiting Lecturer. As Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter he co-produced with Dr Harriet Griffiths and in association with the Louvre's Archives des Musü¾Ž–”¼es Nationaux the online Database of Salon Artists (salonartists.org), and curated the exhibition The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791-1881.
Alister Mill completed his doctoral thesis on the Third-Republic Salon painter Alfred Philippe Roll at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he subsequently spent four years as Visiting Lecturer. As Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter he co-produced with Dr Harriet Griffiths and in association with the Louvre's Archives des Musü¾Ž–”¼es Nationaux the online Database of Salon Artists (salonartists.org), and curated the exhibition The Paris Fine Art Salon, 1791-1881.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333428542 |
| ISBN 10 | 0333428544 |
| Title | A Guide to French Literature |
| Author | Jennifer Birkett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1997-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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