Romance

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 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