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

by Timothy A. Unwin (Editor)

This volume provides a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. Essays by acknowledged experts range widely over issues and texts, referring to earlier periods and other genres and literatures where relevant. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading, and there is a challenging reassessment of major figures and traditional views. All quotations are translated and there is a chronology and guide to further reading, making this an essential working manual for all those interested in modern French fiction.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Books About Books

281 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1997

About the author

Professor Tim Unwin is Emeritus Professor of French, and General Editor of French Studies. He is a former Ashley Watkins Chair of French Language and Literature. Prior to Bristol he taught at the universities of Exeter, Edinburgh, Queen's Belfast, Western Australia, and Liverpool where he was James Barrow Professor of French. He was founder President of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and is a former President of the Association of University Professors and Heads of French (AUPHF). He is on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of French Studies, the international advisory board of the Journal of European Studies, and the editorial committee of Essays in French Literature and Culture. He is also co-moderator of Francofil, an international electronic forum for French studies.

His research interests are in the nineteenth-century novel, and travel and technology in the nineteenth century. He has written books on Flaubert, Verne, Constant, and reflexivity, and has done scholarly editions of a number of nineteenth-century texts. He has also edited two volumes in the 'Cambridge Companion' series, and numerous collections of scholarly essays.

Reviews

[Ivy-Mabel Fling · Rating 5 out of 5]

This books contains some excellent essays on a wide range of topics but I would suggest you either use it as a reference book, you only read it when you know more or less everything there is to know about the French novel through the ages and across the world or you devote the rest of your life reading the books it refers to!!

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A selection of chapters by different people on different aspects of the subject, an academic fashion I am not too sure I like very much (but it meets the need for research outputs). This one has some drawing together in the shape of an index for the whole volume, which is good, and a chronology at the beginning. I learned quite a lot from it (difficult to pick out particular chapters).

[Osamudiamen Aignokhae]

IT WAS ACTUALLY NICE

[Emily]

Informative