A Guide To French Literature Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: The Games of Literature - Subject/Language/History	1
1	Renaissance and Reform, 1515-1600	13
i	Stating the Subject	13
ii	Forging a Language	18
iii	Towards a New Sensibility	26
iv	Subject to Reform: The Religious Factor	30
v	Michel de Montaigne (1533-92): The Body in History	33
2	Classicism: Writing in the Absolute State, 1600-80	38
i	Subject to Authority	38
ii	Dramatising Matters	41
iii	The Tragic Perspective: Negotiating with History	43
iv	Comic Conclusions	50
v	Maximising Morality	53
3	Enlightenment and Revolution, 1680-1815	60
i	A Room with a View	60
ii	Scientific Subjects	64
iii	Dreams of Reason: Jean-Jacques Rousseau	69
iv	Expanding Horizons	74
v	A Novel Subject	78
vi	Revolutionising the Subject	90
4	Restoration to Revolution, 1815-48	101
i	The Age of History	101
ii	Socio-Economic Conditions of Literature	102
iii	The Development of Paris	105
iv	Romanticisms	107
v	Staging Romanticism	114
vi	The Rise of the Novel	115
vii	Women's Stories	124
viii	New Voices and Forms in French Poetry	126
5	Reactions to Revolution, 1848-71	138
i	Conservative Progress	138
ii	New Novels	140
iii	Post-Romantic Positions in Poetry	145
6	The First Inter-War Years, 1871-1914	158
i	Naturalism's Narrative Closures	158
ii	History as Fiction	162
iii	Poetical Openings	165
iv	Anti-Positivist Reactions: Decadence and Symbolism	169
v	After Symbolism	175
vi	The Dreyfus Affair	177
vii	The Novel in Crisis?	179
viii	Poems Down to Earth and Up to Heaven	181
7	Changing Language and Changing Worlds	185
8	Changing Forms and Subjects	200
i	The Novel	200
ii	Poetry and its Purposes	239
iii	Theatre: Language in Performance	257
9	Starting Fresh	276
i	Women/Writing/Women	276
ii	Writing the Interface: Francophonie	293
	Notes	310
	Bibliography	344
	Index	346