A New History of French Literature Book

Introduction

On Writing Literary History
Denis Hollier
778

Entering the Date
John Benton
842

The Birth of Medieval Studies
R. Howard Bloch
1050?

Saints' Lives
Brigitte Cazelles
1095

The Epic
Joseph J. Duggan
1123?

Manuscripts
Laura Kendrick
1127

The Old Provençal Lyric
Stephen G. Nichols
1152

The Romances of Antiquity
Jean-Charles Huchet
1165

Erec et Enide
Eugene Vance
1175

Fables and Parodies
Kathryn Gravdal
1180?

Marie de France
Joan M. Ferrante
1181?

The Grail
Alexandre Leupin
1202

Old French Prose Historiography
Gabrielle M. Spiegel
1209?

Arthurian Romance in Prose E. Jane Burns
1210

The Fabliaux
Charles Muscatine
1214, 27 July

Literature and History
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
1215, November

The Impact of Christian Doctrine
Evelyn Birge Vitz
1225?

Generic Hybrids
Kevin Brownlee
1267

Medieval Rhetoric
Douglas Kelly
1277, 7 March

Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose
David F. Hult
1300?

Medieval Vernacular Drama
Donald Maddox
1342?

Lyricism in the Age of Allegory
Kevin Brownlee
1401, St. Valentine's Day

Trials of Eros
Jacqueline Cerquiglini
1456

"I the Scholar François Villon"
Nancy Freeman Regalado
1460?

Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties
Barbara C. Bowen
1493

The Rhétoriqueurs
François Rigolot
1512

Writing without Reserve
Terence Cave
1517

Humanist Models
Timothy Hampton
1526, July

Life-Saving Stories
Natalie Zemon Davis
1527

Margaret of Navarre
Carla Freccero
1528

Manners and Mannerisms at Court
Nancy J. Vickers
1532

Rabelais and Textual Architecture
Edwin M. Duval
1534, Fall

Literary Banquets
Michel Jeanneret
1534, 17-18 October

Evangelism
Gérard Defaux
1536

Emblems
Daniel S. Russell
1536, Summer

The Sonnet
François Rigolot
1538, 6 March

Dialogue
Jean-Claude Carron
1539

The Birth of French Lexicography
Terence R. Wooldridge
1541, July

Translation as Literature
Glyn P. Norton
1541, September

Calvin the Writer
Francis M. Higman
1542

The Neoplatonic Debate
Lawrence D. Kritzman
1544

The Architecture of Poetic Sequences
Doranne Fenoaltea
1549

A New Intellectual Elite
Margaret Ferguson
1550

Inspiration and Poetic Glory
Michel Beaujour
1552

Renaissance Comedy
Donald Stone, Jr.
1553, March

The Origin of French Tragedy
Timothy J. Reiss
1553, June

Antiquities and Antiquaries
Eric MacPhail
1555, July

Petrarchism with a Difference
Ann Rosalind Jones
1555, 13 September

Books in Print
Antoine Compagnon
1562

Scientific Poetry
Dudley B. Wilson
1563, 18 August

Anti-Dictator
Stephen Greenblatt
1566

History and Vernacular Humanism
Donald R. Kelley
1572, 24 August

Poetry and Action
Ullrich Langer
1573

From Mannerism to Baroque
Lance K. Donaldson-Evans
1578

Antarctic France
Michel Jeanneret
1581

The Spectacle of Power
Margaret M. McGowan
1595

Montaigne and His Readers
Richard L. Regosin
1609

Devout Humanism
Paul A. Chilton
1619

Pastoral Fiction
Louise K. Horowitz
1627

The Age of the Technician
John D. Lyons
1634, 13 March

The Académie Française
Timothy Murray
1637

Toward French Classical Tragedy
Mitchell Greenberg
1640

Problems in Logic and Rhetoric
Timothy J. Reiss
1647

The Subject of Modern Discourse
Thomas G. Pavel
1648, 26-28 August

The Sound of the Fury
Pierre Ronzeaud
1651

Cultural Life outside Paris
Bernard Beugnot
1654

The Salons and "Preciosity"
Joan DeJean
1657

Figures of Social and Semiotic Dissent
Jean Alter
1660

Autocritical Dramaturgy
Marcel Gutwirth
1661

From Roi Soleil to Louis le Grand
Jean-Marie Apostolidès
1664

Jansenist Tragedy
Philip E. Lewis
1668

Moralists
Georges Van Den Abbeele
1673, 17 February

The Comic at Its Limits
Gérard Defaux
1674

On the Sublime, Infinity, Je Ne Sais Quoi
Louis Marin
1677

Historiography in the Age of Absolutism
Roger Chartier
1678

The Emergence of the Novel
John D. Lyons
1680, 21 October

The Comédie-Française
Jacques Guicharnaud
1685

Religious Controversies
Domna C. Stanton
1687

The Ancients and the Moderns
Robert J. Nelson
1689

Pedagogy
John D. Lyons
1694

Linguistic Absolutism
Alain Rey
1697

Marginal Writing
Lionel Gossman
1699

Racine and the French New Criticism
Jean Alter
1700

Classics in the Making
Joan DeJean
1704

Sunset Years
Walter E. Rex
1707?

Fêtes Galantes
Thomas Crow
1721

Others
James Creech
1725

The Politics of Epistolary Art
Janet Gurkin Altman
1727

Portrait of the Philosopher as a Tramp
Jack Undank
1734

Intricacies of Literary Production
English Showalter, Jr.
1735

The Gender of the Memoir-Novel
Nancy K. Miller
1750

Beauty in Context
Gita May
1751

Ordering Knowledge
Daniel Brewer
1754?

Origins
Peggy Kamuf
1754

From Natural Philosophy to Scientific Discourse
Wilda Anderson
1759, January

On Cultivating One's Garden
Aram Vartanian
1759, 23 April

Clearing the Stage
Jay L. Caplan
1759, August-September

Salons
Michael Fried
1761, February

The Novel and Gender Difference
Ronald C. Rosbottom
1761, December

What Was Enlightenment?
Lionel Gossman
1762

Writing the Political
Patrick Colman
1769

Reason
Christie McDonald
1770

Kisses, en Taille Douce
Philip Stewart
1771

Diderot at the Crossroads of Speech
Jack Undank
1772

Utopias
Mark Poster
1774, 19 April

A War at the Opera
Herbert Josephs
1782, March

Words and "the Thing"
Peter Brooks
1782, May

Autobiographical Acts
Virginia E. Swain
1784, 27 April

Pre-Revolution (a Comedy)
Jacques Guicharnaud
1787

Designing Women
Joan Hinde Stewart
1788

Civil Rights and the Wrongs of Women
Madelyn Gutwirth
1789

Seventeen Eighty-nine
Sandy Petrey
1791, 13 January

Language under Revolutionary Pressure
Martine Reid
1791, Summer

Pleasure, Perversion, Danger
Chantal Thomas
1794, 8 June

Twilight of the Gods
Marie-Hélène Huet
1794, 25 July

Unfinished Work
E. S. Burt
1799, 10 October

The Ideologists
Frank Paul Bowman
1800

The Melodramatic Imagination
Peter Brooks
1802, 14 April

Gothic Revival
Anthony Vidler
1808, 17 March

Discipline and Melancholy
Patrizia Lombardo
1814, 4 June

Restoration Freedom and Repression
Tzvetan Todorov
1816, 8 May

Women's Voices in Literature and Art
Sarah Maza
1820

The Lady in the Lake
Barbara Johnson
1823

Romantic Historiography
Hayden White
1827, February

The Invention of the Renaissance
François Rigolot
1827, December

Drama
Jean Gaudon
1830, 27-29 July

An Oedipal Crisis
Peter Brooks
1833

The Scandal of Realism
Naomi Schor
1834

Romanticism and Social Vision
Sandy Petrey
1835

Dialogues with the Muse
Nathaniel Wing
1836, 25 October

Egypt in Paris
Denis Hollier
1837

Fantastic Tales
Ora Avni
1839

Body Bildung and Textual Liberation
D. A. Miller
1840

Discourses on Misery
Robert Bezucha
1843, 9 June

Publishing Novels
Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
1847, 23 December

Orientalism, Colonialism
Christopher L. Miller
1848

Class Struggles in France
Richard Terdiman
1851, 2 December

Literature Deterritorialized
Ross Chambers
1852, 2 December

Bonapartism
Richard Terdiman
1853

French Poe
Jefferson Humphries
1857

Two Trials
Dominick LaCapra
1859, 23 July

Poète Maudite
Michael Danaby
1859, 7 December

Exile from Within, Exile from Without
Nathaniel Wing
1866

The Dream of Stone
Barbara Johnson
1869

Tics
Ora Avni
1871, 15 May

Commune Culture
Kristin Ross
1873

Exit and Save
Norbert Bonenkamp
1874

Haute Couture and Haute Culture
Sima Godfrey
1876

Idealism
Naomi Schor
1877

Nature, Society, and the Discourse of Class
Sandy Petrey
1880

Prostitution in the Novel
Charles Bernheimer
1884

Decadence
Jefferson Humphries
1885, February

The Music of the Future
Richard Sieburth
1885, June

The Liberation of Verse
Barbara Johnson
1886

The Phantom's Voice
Esther Rashkin
1889

Commemoration and the Revolution
Victor Brombert
1892

Writing and the Dance
Françoise Meltzer
1895

Literature in the Classroom
Antoine Compagnon
1898

The Dreyfus Affair
Jeffrey MehIman
1905, 9 December

On Schools, Churches, and Museums
Denis Hollier
1911

From Exoticism to Homosexuality
Richard Howard
1913

Lyrical Ideograms
Tom Conley
1914-1918

Visions of Death and Dissolution
Mary Jean Green
1920

Bourgeois Sin
David O'Connell
1922, 18 November

Death and Literary Authority
Leo Bersani
1924

From Text to Performance
Michel Beaujour
1925, November

Mise en Abyme
Jean-Joseph Goux
1925, December

"I Cannot Abide Stupidity"
Vincent Kaufmann
1928, 3 May

Amnesias
Ann Smock
1929

"Odor di Femina" [Sic]
Elaine Marks
1931, March

Sadology
Carolyn J. Dean
1931, June

Plenty of Nothing
Denis Hollier
1933, February

Negrophilia
James Clifford
1933, November

Americans in Paris
John Atherton
1933, December

"Terrorists Ask No Questions"
Douglas Collins
1934, 6 February

Birthrate and Death Wish
Denis Hollier
1935, 6 May

Staging the Plague
Sylvère Lotringer
1937, March

The Avant-Garde Embraces Science
Allan Stoekl
1937, 12 July

Committed Painting
Susan Rubin Suleiman
1939

Surrealism and Négritude in Martinique
Ronnie Scharfman
1940-1944

The Honor of Poets
Ann Smock
1941

How Is Literature Possible?
Michael Syrotinski
1942

The Problem of Belief
Samuel Kinser
1945, 6 February

Literature and Collaboration
Alice Yaeger Kaplan
1945, 15 October

Rebellion or Revolution?
Steven Ungar
1946, July

Samuel Beckett Emerges as a French Writer
Alan Astro
1949

An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France
Toril Moi
1953

The Nouveau Roman
Gerald Prince
1954, January

On Certain Tendencies of the French Cinema
Dudley Andrew
1959, 9 January

The Ministry of Fate
Rosalind Krauss
1959, 28 October

The Theater of the Absurd
Thomas Bishop
1960

As Is
Susan Rubin Suleiman
1962, November

The School of Independence
Réda Bensmaïa
1966