Romance
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Dissonance in the Republic of Letters: The Querelle des Gluckistes et des Piccinnistes [Hardback]
Mark Darlow (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975547
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Eighteenth-century French cultural life was often characterised by quarrels, and the arrival of Viennese composer Christoph Willibald Gluck in Paris in 1774 was no exception, sparking a five-year pamphlet and press controversy whi... .... Learn More -
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War [Hardback]
Nicholas White (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975479
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. Diluted by the Civil Code and suppressed by the Restoration, divorce was only fully established in France by the Loi Na... .... Learn More -
Furetière's Roman bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies [Hardback]
Craig Moyes (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781907747991
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 34
‘If Furetière (1619-1688) hadn’t been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn’t been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Académie Française, it is unlikely that we would... .... Learn More -
Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France [Hardback]
Greg Kerr (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975530
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Against a backdrop of dizzying urbanization, French utopian thinkers of the nineteenth century set out to explore the transformative possibilities of the modern metropolis. Linking literary analyses with diverse strands of cultura... .... Learn More -
Narrative Responses to the Trauma of the French Revolution [Hardback]
Katherine Astbury (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975424
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
During the French Revolution, traditional literary forms such as the sentimental novel and the moral tale dominate literary production. At first glance, it might seem that these texts are unaffected by the upheavals in France; in fact they reveal ... .... Learn More -
English Responses to French Poetry 1880-1940: Translation and Mediation [Hardback]
Jennifer Higgins (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907625060
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
Between 1880 and 1940, English responses to French poetry evolved from marginalised expressions of admiration associated with rebellion against the "establishment" to mainstream mutual exchange and appreciation. The translation of poetry underw... .... Learn More -
The Livres-Souvenirs of Colette: Genre and the Telling of Time [Hardback]
Anne Freadman (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540937
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 33
Throughout her career, Colette experimented with genre for the purposes of telling stories of her life. The books that resulted, known collectively as her ‘livres-souvenirs’, are far from being autobiographies in the c... .... Learn More -
Maryse Condé and the Space of Literature [Hardback]
Eva Sansavior (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9781906540944
Published by : Legenda
Series: Research Monographs in French Studies
Volume: 32
The Guadeloupean writer and critic Maryse Condé has for the last twenty-five years divided her time between her native Guadeloupe and the United States. If the author’s work has attracted much critical attention in th... .... Learn More -
Disrupted Narratives: Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini [Hardback]
Emma Bond (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975387
Published by : Legenda
Series: Italian Perspectives
Volume: 24
If Madame Bovary’s death in Flaubert’s 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of i... .... Learn More -
Proust, the One, and the Many: Identity and Difference in A la recherche du temps perdu [Hardback]
Erika Fulop (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9781907975325
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
One of the many aspects that make Marcel Prousts A la recherche du temps perdu such a complex and subtle work is its engagement with metaphysical questions. The disparate nature of the narrators experiences, hypotheses, and statements has gener... .... Learn More