French Literature: A Very Short Introduction (22 page)

General

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, A History of the French Language Through
Texts (London: Routledge, 1996).

Peter France (ed.), New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

Denis Hollier (ed.),A New History ofFrench Literature (Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).

Colin Jones, The Cambridge Illustrated History ofFrance (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Sarah Kay, Terence Cave, and Malcolm Bowie,A Short History of
French Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Eva Martin Sartori (ed.), The Feminist Encyclopedia ofFrench
Literature (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1999).

Sonya Stephens (ed.), A History of Women's Writing in France
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Medieval and Renaissance

Barbara K. Altman and Deborah McGrady (eds.), Christine de Pizan:
A Casebook (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Simon Gaunt, Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to French Medieval
Literature (London: Duckworth, 2001).

Sarah Kay, The chansons de geste in theAge ofRomance: Political
Fictions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

Sarah Kay, The Troubadours: An Introduction (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Neil Kenny, An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century French Literature
and Thought: Other Times, Other Places (London: Duckworth,
2008).

R. J. Knecht, Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign ofFrancis I
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Ullrich Langer, The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005).

John Lyons and Mary McKinley, Critical Tales: New Studies of
the Heptameron and Early Modern Culture (Philadelphia, PA:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

Deborah McGrady, Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and
His Late MedievalAudience (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2007).

Michael Randall, The Gargantuan Polity: On the Individual and the
Community in the French Renaissance (Toronto and London:
University of Toronto Press, 2008).

Jane Taylor, The Poetry ofFrancois Villon (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001).

17th and 18th centuries

Faith E. Beasley, Salons, History, and the Creation ofi7th-Century
France (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2006).

Jean-Claude Bonnet, Naissance du Pantheon: Essai sur le culte des
Grands Hommes (Paris: Fayard,1998).

Peter Brooks, The Novel of Worldliness: Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos,
Stendhal (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969).

Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers ofPre-Revolutionary
France (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995).

Joan DeJean, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the
Novel in France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).

William Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Anne E. Duggan, Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of
Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (Newark, DE:
University of Delaware Press, 2005).

James F. Gaines, Social Structures inMoliere's Theater (Columbus,
OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984).

Dena Goodman, The Republic ofLetters:A Cultural History of the
French Enlightenment (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
1996).

Michael Moriarty, Early Modern French Thought: TheAge of
Suspicion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Michael Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French
Thought II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Crest Ranum, Paris in the Age ofAbsolutism: An Essay (University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).

Lewis Carl Seifert, Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France,
1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1996).

19th century

Tim Farrant, An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French
Literature (London: Duckworth, 2007).

Alison Finch, Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Cheryl L. Krueger, The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in
Prose (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007).

Rosemary Lloyd (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Christopher Prendergast, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992).

Debarati Sanyal, The Violence ofModernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the
Politics of Form (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006).

David Wakefield, The French Romantics: Literature and the Visual
Arts 1800-1840 (London: Chaucer Press, 2007).

20th and 21st centuries

Lucille Frackman Becker, Twentieth-Century French Women Novelists
(Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1989).

Victoria Best, An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature
(London: Duckworth, 2002).

Dorothy Blair, Senegalese Literature in French (Boston, MA: Twayne
Publishers, 1984).

Patrick Corcoran, The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone
Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Edward J. Hughes, Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature,
from Loti to Genet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001).

Ann Jefferson, Biography and the Question ofLiterature in France
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Shirley Ann Jordan, Contemporary French Women's Writing: Women's
Visions, Women's Voices (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005).

Michael Lucey, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette,
Gide, and Proust (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).

Christopher L. Miller, Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on
Francophone African Literature and Culture (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 1998).

Charles Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society
(Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001).