French Literature

Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and historical context...

Includes the French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the poems in their social and historical context...

Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky’s fiction--particularly the enthusiastic receptio..

Kershaw analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France, exploring the cultural exchange between France and Russia and the political implications of Némirovsky’s fiction--particularly the enthusiastic receptio..

Diderot and Lessing as Exemplars of a Post-spinozist Mentality..

This book studies travel writing produced by French authors following visits to dictatorial regimes perceived in inter-war France as totalitarian in nature. It gauges the appeal of totalitarian alternatives and their apparent promise for the French intellectual, considering to what extent the intere..

Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, G..

Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, G..

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context...

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context...

Includes the full French text, accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context...

A fragmented and largely retrospective description of a daughter's relationship with her father, La Place deals with issues of sexuality, social standing and alienation. This is an accessible and exciting addition to French studies courses...