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A Guide to French Literature

From Early Modern to Postmodern

  • Textbook
  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Jennifer Birkett
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  2. James Kearns
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 1-9

  3. The Making of the Modern Subject

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Renaissance and Reform, 1515–1600

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 13-37

    3. Classicism: Writing in the Absolute State, 1600–80

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 38-59

    4. Enlightenment and Revolution, 1680–1815

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 60-97

  4. The Bourgeois Century, 1815–1914

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Restoration to Revolution, 1815–48

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 101-137

    3. Reactions to Revolution, 1848–71

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 138-157

    4. The First Inter-War Years, 1871–1914

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 158-182

  5. A Century of Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Changing Language and Changing Worlds

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 185-199

    3. Changing Forms and Subjects

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 200-275

    4. Starting Fresh

      • Jennifer Birkett, James Kearns
      Pages 276-309

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 310-361
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In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading public. Writers and writings relegated to the margins of the canon are reassessed. New directions in contemporary thought, women's writing and Francophone literature are a feature, together with important concepts of contemporary critical theory.

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