A new history of French literature

Hollier, Denis

A new history of French literature

Denis Hollier and R. Howard Bloch 1994 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College

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0674615654
0674615662

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Frontmatter
Introduction (page xix)
On Writing Literary History (Denis Hollier, page xxi)
778: Entering the Date (John Benton, page 1)
842: The Birth of Medieval Studies (R. Howard Bloch, page 6)
1050? Saints' Lives (Brigitte Cazelles, page 13)
1095: The Epic (Joseph J. Duggan, page 18)
1123? Manuscripts (Laura Kendrick, page 23)
1127: The Old Provençal Lyric (Stephen G. Nichols, page 30)
1152: The Romances of Antiquity (Jean-Charles Huchet, page 36)
1165: Erec et Enide (Eugene Vance, page 41)
1175: Fables and Parodies (Kathryn Gravdal, page 46)
1180? Marie de France (Joan M. Ferrante, page 50)
1181? The Grail (Alexandre Leupin, page 56)
1202: Old French Prose Historiography (Gabrielle M. Spiegel, page 61)
1209? Arthurian Romance in Prose (E. Jane Burns, page 66)
1210: The Fabliaux (Charles Muscatine, page 70)
1214, 27 July: Literature and History (Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, page 75)
1215, November: The Impact of Christian Doctrine (Evelyn Birge Vitz, page 82)
1225? Generic Hybrids (Kevin Brownlee, page 88)
1267: Medieval Rhetoric (Douglas Kelly, page 93)
1277, 7 March: Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose (David F. Hult, page 97)
1300? Medieval Vernacular Drama (Donald Maddox, page 103)
1342? Lyricism in the Age of Allegory (Kevin Brownlee, page 109)
1401, St. Valentine's Day: Trials of Eros (Jacqueline Cerquiglini, page 114)
1456: "I the Scholar François Villon" (Nancy Freeman Regalado, page 118)
1460? Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties (Barbara C. Bowen, page 124)
1493: The Rhétoriqueurs (François Rigolot, page 127)
1512: Writing without Reserve (Terence Cave, page 133)
1517: Humanist Models (Timothy Hampton, page 136)
1526, July: Life-Saving Stories (Natalie Zemon Davis, page 139)
1527: Margaret of Navarre (Carla Freccero, page 145)
1528: Manners and Mannerisms at Court (Nancy J. Vickers, page 148)
1532: Rabelais and Textual Architecture (Edwin M. Duval, page 154)
1534, Fall: Literary Banquets (Michael Jeanneret, page 159)
1534, 17-18 October: Evangelism (Gérard Defaux, page 162)
1536: Emblems (Daniel S. Russell, page 167)
1536, Summer: The Sonnet (François Rigolot, page 171)
1538, 6 March: Dialogue (Jean-Claude Carron, page 174)
1539: The Birth of French Lexicography (Terence R. Wooldridge, page 177)
1541, July: Translation as Literature (Glyn P. Norton, page 180)
1541, September: Calvin the Writer (Francis M. Higman, page 184)
1542: The Neoplatonic Debate (Lawrence D. Kritzman, page 187)
1544: The Architecture of Poetic Sequences (Doranne Fenoaltea, page 189)
1549: A New Intellectual Elite (Margaret Ferguson, page 194)
1550: Inspiration and Poetic Glory (Michel Beaujour, page 198)
1552: Renaissance Comedy (Donald Stone, Jr., page 202)
1553, March: The Origin of French Tragedy (Timothy J. Reiss, page 205)
1553, June: Antiquities and Antiquaries (Eric MacPhail, page 209)
1555, July: Petrarchism with a Difference (Ann Rosalind Jones, page 213)
1555, 13 September: Books in Print (Antoine Compagnon, page 216)
1562: Scientific Poetry (Dudley B. Wilson, page 220)
1563, 18 August: Anti-Dictator (Stephen Greenblatt, page 223)
1566: History and Vernacular Humanism (Donald R. Kelley, page 228)
1572, 24 August: Poetry and Action (Ullrich Langer, page 231)
1573: From Mannerism to Baroque (Lance K. Donaldson-Evans, page 236)
1578: Antarctic France (Michel Jeanneret, page 240)
1581: The Spectacle of Power (Margaret M. McGowan, page 243)
1595: Montaigne and His Readers (Richard L. Regosin, page 248)
1609: Devout Humanism (Paul A. Chilton, page 253)
1619: Pastoral Fiction (Louise K. Horowitz, page 258)
1627: The Age of the Technician (John D. Lyons, page 262)
1634, 13 March: The Académie Française (Timothy Murray, page 267)
1637: Toward French Classical Tragedy (Mitchell Greenberg, page 273)
1640: Problems in Logic and Rhetoric (Timothy J. Reiss, page 278)
1647: The Subject of Modern Discourse (Thomas G. Pavel, page 284)
1648, 26-28 August: The Sound of the Fury (Pierre Ronzeaud, page 288)
1651: Cultural Life outside Paris (Bernard Beugnot, page 292)
1654: The Salons and "Preciosity" (Joan DeJean, page 297)
1657: Figures of Social and Semiotic Dissent (Jean Alter, page 303)
1660: Autocritical Dramaturgy (Marcel Gutwirth, page 309)
1661: From Roi Soleil to Louis le Grand (Jean-Marie Apostolidès, page 314)
1664: Jansenist Tragedy (Philip E. Lewis, page 320)
1668: Moralists (Georges Van Den Abbeele, page 327)
1673, 17 February: The Comic at Its Limits (Gérard Defaux, page 334)
1674: On the Sublime, Infinity, Je Ne Sais Quoi (Louis Marin, page 340)
1677: Historiography in the Age of Absolutism (Roger Chartier, page 345)
1678: The Emergence of the Novel (John D. Lyons, page 350)
1680, 21 October: The Comédie-Française (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 354)
1685: Religious Controversies (Domna C. Stanton, page 358)
1687: The Ancients and the Moderns (Robert J. Nelson, page 364)
1689: Pedagogy (John D. Lyons, page 369)
1694: Linguistic Absolutism (Alain Rey, page 373)
1697: Marginal Writing (Lionel Gossman, page 379)
1699: Racine and the French New Criticism (Jean Alter, page 386)
1700: Classics in the Making (Joan DeJean, page 391)
1704: Sunset Years (Walter E. Rex, page 396)
1707? Fêtes Galantes (Thomas Crow, page 402)
1721: Others (James Creech, page 409)
1725: The Politics of Epistolary Art (Janet Gurkin Altman, page 415)
1727: Portrait of the Philosopher as a Tramp (Jack Undank, page 421)
1734: Intricacies of Literary Production (English Showalter, Jr., page 429)
1735: The Gender of the Memoir-Novel (Nancy K. Miller, page 436)
1750: Beauty in Context (Gita May, page 442)
1751: Ordering Knowledge (Daniel Brewer, page 447)
1754? Origins (Peggy Kamuf, page 455)
1754: From Natural Philosophy to Scientific Discourse (Wilda Anderson, page 460)
1759, January: On Cultivating One's Garden (Aram Vartanian, page 465)
1759, 23 April: Clearing the Stage (Jay L. Caplan, page 471)
1759, August-September: Salons (Michael Fried, page 476)
1761, February: The Novel and Gender Difference (Ronald C. Rosbottom, page 481)
1761, December: What Was Enlightenment? (Lionel Gossman, page 487)
1762: Writing the Political (Patrick Coleman, page 496)
1769: Reason (Christie McDonald, page 501)
1770: Kisses, en Taille Douce (Philip Stewart, page 507)
1771: Diderot at the Crossroads of Speech (Jack Undank, page 517)
1772: Utopias (Mark Poster, page 525)
1774, 19 April: A War at the Opera (Herbert Josephs, page 531)
1782, March: Words and "the Thing" (Peter Brooks, page 537)
1782, May: Autobiographical Acts (Virginia E. Swain, page 543)
1784, 27 April: Pre-Revolution (a Comedy) (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 549)
1787: Designing Women (Joan Hinde Stewart, page 553)
1788: Civil Rights and the Wrongs of Women (Madelyn Gutwirth, page 558)
1789: Seventeen Eighty-nine (Sandy Petrey, page 566)
1791, 13 January: Language under Revolutionary Pressure (Martine Reid, page 572)
1791, Summer: Pleasure, Perversion, Danger (Chantal Thomas, page 579)
1794, 8 June: Twilight of the Gods (Marie-Hélène Huet, page 584)
1794, 25 July: Unfinished Work (E.S. Burt, page 589)
1799, 10 October: The Ideologists (Frank Paul Bowman, page 596)
1800: The Melodramatic Imagination (Peter Brooks, page 602)
1802, 14 April: Gothic Revival (Anthony Vidler, page 609)
1808, 17 March: Discipline and Melancholy (Patrizia Lombardo, page 613)
1814, 4 June: Restoration Freedom and Repression (Tzvetan Todorov, page 617)
1816, 8 May: Women's Voices in Literature and Art (Sarah Maza, page 623)
1820: The Lady in the Lake (Barbara Johnson, page 627)
1823: Romantic Historiography (Hayden White, page 632)
1827, February: The Invention of the Renaissance (François Rigolot, page 638)
1827, December: Drama (Jean Gaudon, page 644)
1830, 27-29 July: An Oedipal Crisis (Peter Brooks, page 649)
1833: The Scandal of Realism (Naomi Schor, page 656)
1834: Romanticism and Social Vision (Sandy Petrey, page 661)
1835: Dialogues with the Muse (Nathaniel Wing, page 666)
1836, 25 October: Egypt in Paris (Denis Hollier, page 672)
1837: Fantastic Tales (Ora Avni, page 675)
1839: Body Bildung and Textual Liberation (D.A. Miller, page 681)
1840: Discourses on Misery (Robert Bezucha, page 687)
1843, 9 June: Publishing Novels (Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, page 693)
1847, 23 Decemeber: Orientalism, Colonialism (Christopher L. Miller, page 698)
1848: Class Struggles in France (Richard Terdiman, page 705)
1851, 2 December: Literature Deterritorialized (Ross Chambers, page 710)
1852, 2 December: Bonapartism (Richard Terdiman, page 717)
1853: French Poe (Jefferson Humphries, page 723)
1857: Two Trials (Dominick LaCapra, page 726)
1859, 23 July: Poète Maudite (Michael Danahy, page 731)
1859, 7 December: Exile from Within, Exile from Without (Nathaniel Wing, page 737)
1866: The Dream of Stone (Barbara Johnson, page 743)
1869: Tics (Ora Avni, page 748)
1871, 15 May: Commune Culture (Kristin Ross, page 751)
1873: Exit and Save (Norbert Bonenkamp, page 758)
1874: Haute Couture and Haute Culture (Sima Godfrey, page 761)
1876: Idealism (Naomi Schor, page 769)
1877: Nature, Society, and the Discourse of Class (Sandy Petrey, page 774)
1880: Prostitution in the Novel (Charles Bernheimer, page 780)
1884: Decadence (Jefferson Humphries, page 785)
1885, February: The Music of the Future (Richard Sieburth, page 789)
1885, June: The Liberation of Verse (Barbara Johnson, page 798)
1886, The Phantom's Voice (Esther Rashkin, page 801)
1889: Commemoration and the Revolution (Victor Brombert, page 806)
1892: Writing and the Dance (Françoise Meltzer, page 813)
1895: Literature in the Classroom (Antoine Compagnon, page 819)
1898: The Dreyfus Affair (Jeffrey Mehlman, page 824)
1905, 9 December: On Schools, Churches, and Museums (Denis Hollier, page 830)
1911: From Exoticism to Homosexuality (Richard Howard, page 836)
1913: Lyrical Ideograms (Tom Conley, page 842)
1914-1918: Visions of Death and Dissolution (Mary Jean Green, page 850)
1920: Bourgeois Sin (David O'Connell, page 855)
1922, 18 November: Death and Literary Authority (Leo Bersani, page 861)
1924: From Text to Performance (Michel Beaujour, page 866)
1925, November: Mise en Abyme (Jean-Joseph Goux, page 872)
1925, December: "I Cannot Abide Stupidity" (Vincent Kaufmann, page 876)
1928, 3 May: Amnesias (Ann Smock, page 881)
1929: "Odor di Femina" [Sic] (Elaine Marks, page 887)
1931, March: Sadology (Carolyn J. Dean, page 892)
1931, June: Plenty of Nothing (Denis Hollier, page 894)
1933, February: Negrophilia (James Clifford, page 901)
1933, November: Americans in Paris (John Atherton, page 908)
1933, December: "Terrorists Ask No Questions" (Douglas Collins, page 914)
1934, 6 February: Birthrate and Death Wish (Denis Hollier, page 919)
1935, 6 May: Staging the Plague (Sylvère Lotringer, page 924)
1937, March: The Avant-Garde Embraces Science (Allan Stoekl, page 929)
1937, 12 July: Committed Painting (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 935)
1939: Surrealism and Négritude in Martinique (Ronnie Scharfman, page 942)
1940-1944: The Honor of Poets (Ann Smock, page 948)
1941: How Is Literature Possible? (Michael Syrotinksi, page 953)
1942: The Problem of Belief (Samuel Kinser, page 958)
1945, 6 February: Literature and Collaboration (Alice Yaeger Kaplan, page 966)
1945, 15 October: Rebellion or Revolution? (Steven Ungar, page 972)
1946, July: Samuel Beckett Emerges as a French Writer (Alan Astro, page 977)
1949: An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France (Toril Moi, page 982)
1953: The Nouveau Roman (Gerald Prince, page 988)
1954, January: On Certain Tendencies of the French Cinema (Dudley Andrew, page 993)
1959, 9 January: The Ministry of Fate (Rosalind Krauss, page 1000)
1959, 28 October: The Theater of the Absurd (Thomas Bishop, page 1006)
1960: As Is (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 1011)
1962, November: The School of Independence (Réda Bensmaïa, page 1018)
1966: The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place (Mary Ann Caws, page 1023)
1968, February: Francophonie and Independence (Christopher L. Miller, page 1028)
1968, May: "Actions, No! Words, Yes!" (Denis Hollier, page 1034)
1973: French Lib (Yve-Alain Bois, page 1040)
1975: "French Feminism" (Jane Gallop, page 1045)
1976, 15 November: Hubert Aquin and Quebec Literature (Patrick Coleman, page 1050)
1985, 27 September: Friday Night Books (Stephen Heath, page 1054)
1989: How Can One Be French? (Denis Hollier, page 1061)
Chronology (page 1071)
Map of Modern France (page 1084)
Acknowledgments (page 1085)
Contributors (page 1087)
Index (page 1101)

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Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
CL	43.1 (Winter 1991): 82-83	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1770999
SCR	7.2 (Summer 1990): 110-112	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3189354
MLR	87.2 (Apr. 1992): 464	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3730712
HTE	24.3 (May 1991): 363-364	http://www.jstor.org/stable/494627
FR	64.3 (Feb. 1991): 502-503	http://www.jstor.org/stable/395393
RMRLL	44.4 (1990): 259-260	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1346800
SUB	20.3 (1991): 137-141	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3685185
PL	14.2 (Oct. 1990): 398-399	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v014/14.2.berrong.html
SUB	102.32.3 (2003): 6-18	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/substance/v032/32.3hollier.html

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