Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France - or do they? "Les Miserables", "The Lady of the Camelias" and "The Three Musketeers", "Balzac" and "Jules Verne" live in the popular consciousness as enduring human documents and cultural icons. Yet, the French nineteenth century was even more dynamic than the stereotype suggests. This exciting new introduction takes the literature of the period both as a window on past and present mindsets and as an object of fascination in its own right. Beginning with history, the century's biggest problem and potential, it looks at narrative responses to historical, political and social experience, before devoting central chapters to poetry, drama and novels - all genres the century radically reinvented. It then explores numerous modernities, ways nineteenth-century writing and mentalities look forward to our own, before turning to marginalities - subjects and voices the canon traditionally forgot. No genre was left unchanged by the nineteenth century. This book will help to discover them anew.

ISBN 0715629077   Pages 160 ISBN13 9780715629079 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Weight (grammes) 272 Imprint Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title New Readings Series Publication date 01 Jun 2007   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress PQ   Width (mm) 135 DEWEY 840.9007   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

1		Histories		13
2		Stories		33
3		Poetry		52
4		Drama		86
5		Novels		109
6		Modernities		135
7		Margins, peripheries and centres		168

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