A new history of French literature

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter

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• Introduction (page xix)

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• On Writing Literary History (Denis Hollier, page xxi)

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• 778: Entering the Date (John Benton, page 1)

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• 842: The Birth of Medieval Studies (R. Howard Bloch, page 6)

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• 1050? Saints' Lives (Brigitte Cazelles, page 13)

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• 1095: The Epic (Joseph J. Duggan, page 18)

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• 1123? Manuscripts (Laura Kendrick, page 23)

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• 1127: The Old Provençal Lyric (Stephen G. Nichols, page 30)

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• 1152: The Romances of Antiquity (Jean-Charles Huchet, page 36)

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• 1165: Erec et Enide (Eugene Vance, page 41)

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• 1175: Fables and Parodies (Kathryn Gravdal, page 46)

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• 1180? Marie de France (Joan M. Ferrante, page 50)

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• 1181? The Grail (Alexandre Leupin, page 56)

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• 1202: Old French Prose Historiography (Gabrielle M. Spiegel, page 61)

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• 1209? Arthurian Romance in Prose (E. Jane Burns, page 66)

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• 1210: The Fabliaux (Charles Muscatine, page 70)

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• 1214, 27 July: Literature and History (Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, page 75)

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• 1215, November: The Impact of Christian Doctrine (Evelyn Birge Vitz, page 82)

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• 1225? Generic Hybrids (Kevin Brownlee, page 88)

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• 1267: Medieval Rhetoric (Douglas Kelly, page 93)

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• 1277, 7 March: Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose (David F. Hult, page 97)

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• 1300? Medieval Vernacular Drama (Donald Maddox, page 103)

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• 1342? Lyricism in the Age of Allegory (Kevin Brownlee, page 109)

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• 1401, St. Valentine's Day: Trials of Eros (Jacqueline Cerquiglini, page 114)

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• 1456: "I the Scholar François Villon" (Nancy Freeman Regalado, page 118)

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• 1460? Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties (Barbara C. Bowen, page 124)

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• 1493: The Rhétoriqueurs (François Rigolot, page 127)

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• 1512: Writing without Reserve (Terence Cave, page 133)

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• 1517: Humanist Models (Timothy Hampton, page 136)

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• 1526, July: Life-Saving Stories (Natalie Zemon Davis, page 139)

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• 1527: Margaret of Navarre (Carla Freccero, page 145)

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• 1528: Manners and Mannerisms at Court (Nancy J. Vickers, page 148)

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• 1532: Rabelais and Textual Architecture (Edwin M. Duval, page 154)

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• 1534, Fall: Literary Banquets (Michael Jeanneret, page 159)

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• 1534, 17-18 October: Evangelism (Gérard Defaux, page 162)

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• 1536: Emblems (Daniel S. Russell, page 167)

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• 1536, Summer: The Sonnet (François Rigolot, page 171)

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• 1538, 6 March: Dialogue (Jean-Claude Carron, page 174)

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• 1539: The Birth of French Lexicography (Terence R. Wooldridge, page 177)

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• 1541, July: Translation as Literature (Glyn P. Norton, page 180)

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• 1541, September: Calvin the Writer (Francis M. Higman, page 184)

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• 1542: The Neoplatonic Debate (Lawrence D. Kritzman, page 187)

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• 1544: The Architecture of Poetic Sequences (Doranne Fenoaltea, page 189)

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• 1549: A New Intellectual Elite (Margaret Ferguson, page 194)

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• 1550: Inspiration and Poetic Glory (Michel Beaujour, page 198)

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• 1552: Renaissance Comedy (Donald Stone, Jr., page 202)

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• 1553, March: The Origin of French Tragedy (Timothy J. Reiss, page 205)

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• 1553, June: Antiquities and Antiquaries (Eric MacPhail, page 209)

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• 1555, July: Petrarchism with a Difference (Ann Rosalind Jones, page 213)

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• 1555, 13 September: Books in Print (Antoine Compagnon, page 216)

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• 1562: Scientific Poetry (Dudley B. Wilson, page 220)

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• 1563, 18 August: Anti-Dictator (Stephen Greenblatt, page 223)

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• 1566: History and Vernacular Humanism (Donald R. Kelley, page 228)

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• 1572, 24 August: Poetry and Action (Ullrich Langer, page 231)

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• 1573: From Mannerism to Baroque (Lance K. Donaldson-Evans, page 236)

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• 1578: Antarctic France (Michel Jeanneret, page 240)

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• 1581: The Spectacle of Power (Margaret M. McGowan, page 243)

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• 1595: Montaigne and His Readers (Richard L. Regosin, page 248)

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• 1609: Devout Humanism (Paul A. Chilton, page 253)

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• 1619: Pastoral Fiction (Louise K. Horowitz, page 258)

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• 1627: The Age of the Technician (John D. Lyons, page 262)

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• 1634, 13 March: The Académie Française (Timothy Murray, page 267)

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• 1637: Toward French Classical Tragedy (Mitchell Greenberg, page 273)

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• 1640: Problems in Logic and Rhetoric (Timothy J. Reiss, page 278)

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• 1647: The Subject of Modern Discourse (Thomas G. Pavel, page 284)

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• 1648, 26-28 August: The Sound of the Fury (Pierre Ronzeaud, page 288)

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• 1651: Cultural Life outside Paris (Bernard Beugnot, page 292)

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• 1654: The Salons and "Preciosity" (Joan DeJean, page 297)

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• 1657: Figures of Social and Semiotic Dissent (Jean Alter, page 303)

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• 1660: Autocritical Dramaturgy (Marcel Gutwirth, page 309)

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• 1661: From Roi Soleil to Louis le Grand (Jean-Marie Apostolidès, page 314)

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• 1664: Jansenist Tragedy (Philip E. Lewis, page 320)

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• 1668: Moralists (Georges Van Den Abbeele, page 327)

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• 1673, 17 February: The Comic at Its Limits (Gérard Defaux, page 334)

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• 1674: On the Sublime, Infinity, Je Ne Sais Quoi (Louis Marin, page 340)

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• 1677: Historiography in the Age of Absolutism (Roger Chartier, page 345)

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• 1678: The Emergence of the Novel (John D. Lyons, page 350)

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• 1680, 21 October: The Comédie-Française (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 354)

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• 1685: Religious Controversies (Domna C. Stanton, page 358)

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• 1687: The Ancients and the Moderns (Robert J. Nelson, page 364)

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• 1689: Pedagogy (John D. Lyons, page 369)

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• 1694: Linguistic Absolutism (Alain Rey, page 373)

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• 1697: Marginal Writing (Lionel Gossman, page 379)

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• 1699: Racine and the French New Criticism (Jean Alter, page 386)

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• 1700: Classics in the Making (Joan DeJean, page 391)

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• 1704: Sunset Years (Walter E. Rex, page 396)

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• 1707? Fêtes Galantes (Thomas Crow, page 402)

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• 1721: Others (James Creech, page 409)

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• 1725: The Politics of Epistolary Art (Janet Gurkin Altman, page 415)

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• 1727: Portrait of the Philosopher as a Tramp (Jack Undank, page 421)

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• 1734: Intricacies of Literary Production (English Showalter, Jr., page 429)

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• 1735: The Gender of the Memoir-Novel (Nancy K. Miller, page 436)

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• 1750: Beauty in Context (Gita May, page 442)

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• 1751: Ordering Knowledge (Daniel Brewer, page 447)

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• 1754? Origins (Peggy Kamuf, page 455)

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• 1754: From Natural Philosophy to Scientific Discourse (Wilda Anderson, page 460)

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• 1759, January: On Cultivating One's Garden (Aram Vartanian, page 465)

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• 1759, 23 April: Clearing the Stage (Jay L. Caplan, page 471)

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• 1759, August-September: Salons (Michael Fried, page 476)

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• 1761, February: The Novel and Gender Difference (Ronald C. Rosbottom, page 481)

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• 1761, December: What Was Enlightenment? (Lionel Gossman, page 487)

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• 1762: Writing the Political (Patrick Coleman, page 496)

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• 1769: Reason (Christie McDonald, page 501)

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• 1770: Kisses, en Taille Douce (Philip Stewart, page 507)

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• 1771: Diderot at the Crossroads of Speech (Jack Undank, page 517)

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• 1772: Utopias (Mark Poster, page 525)

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• 1774, 19 April: A War at the Opera (Herbert Josephs, page 531)

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• 1782, March: Words and "the Thing" (Peter Brooks, page 537)

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• 1782, May: Autobiographical Acts (Virginia E. Swain, page 543)

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• 1784, 27 April: Pre-Revolution (a Comedy) (Jacques Guicharnaud, page 549)

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• 1787: Designing Women (Joan Hinde Stewart, page 553)

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• 1788: Civil Rights and the Wrongs of Women (Madelyn Gutwirth, page 558)

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• 1789: Seventeen Eighty-nine (Sandy Petrey, page 566)

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• 1791, 13 January: Language under Revolutionary Pressure (Martine Reid, page 572)

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• 1791, Summer: Pleasure, Perversion, Danger (Chantal Thomas, page 579)

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• 1794, 8 June: Twilight of the Gods (Marie-Hélène Huet, page 584)

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• 1794, 25 July: Unfinished Work (E.S. Burt, page 589)

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• 1799, 10 October: The Ideologists (Frank Paul Bowman, page 596)

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• 1800: The Melodramatic Imagination (Peter Brooks, page 602)

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• 1802, 14 April: Gothic Revival (Anthony Vidler, page 609)

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• 1808, 17 March: Discipline and Melancholy (Patrizia Lombardo, page 613)

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• 1814, 4 June: Restoration Freedom and Repression (Tzvetan Todorov, page 617)

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• 1816, 8 May: Women's Voices in Literature and Art (Sarah Maza, page 623)

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• 1820: The Lady in the Lake (Barbara Johnson, page 627)

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• 1823: Romantic Historiography (Hayden White, page 632)

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• 1827, February: The Invention of the Renaissance (François Rigolot, page 638)

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• 1827, December: Drama (Jean Gaudon, page 644)

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• 1830, 27-29 July: An Oedipal Crisis (Peter Brooks, page 649)

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• 1833: The Scandal of Realism (Naomi Schor, page 656)

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• 1834: Romanticism and Social Vision (Sandy Petrey, page 661)

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• 1835: Dialogues with the Muse (Nathaniel Wing, page 666)

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• 1836, 25 October: Egypt in Paris (Denis Hollier, page 672)

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• 1837: Fantastic Tales (Ora Avni, page 675)

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• 1839: Body Bildung and Textual Liberation (D.A. Miller, page 681)

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• 1840: Discourses on Misery (Robert Bezucha, page 687)

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• 1843, 9 June: Publishing Novels (Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, page 693)

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• 1847, 23 Decemeber: Orientalism, Colonialism (Christopher L. Miller, page 698)

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• 1848: Class Struggles in France (Richard Terdiman, page 705)

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• 1851, 2 December: Literature Deterritorialized (Ross Chambers, page 710)

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• 1852, 2 December: Bonapartism (Richard Terdiman, page 717)

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• 1853: French Poe (Jefferson Humphries, page 723)

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• 1857: Two Trials (Dominick LaCapra, page 726)

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• 1859, 23 July: Poète Maudite (Michael Danahy, page 731)

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• 1859, 7 December: Exile from Within, Exile from Without (Nathaniel Wing, page 737)

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• 1866: The Dream of Stone (Barbara Johnson, page 743)

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• 1869: Tics (Ora Avni, page 748)

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• 1871, 15 May: Commune Culture (Kristin Ross, page 751)

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• 1873: Exit and Save (Norbert Bonenkamp, page 758)

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• 1874: Haute Couture and Haute Culture (Sima Godfrey, page 761)

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• 1876: Idealism (Naomi Schor, page 769)

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• 1877: Nature, Society, and the Discourse of Class (Sandy Petrey, page 774)

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• 1880: Prostitution in the Novel (Charles Bernheimer, page 780)

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• 1884: Decadence (Jefferson Humphries, page 785)

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• 1885, February: The Music of the Future (Richard Sieburth, page 789)

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• 1885, June: The Liberation of Verse (Barbara Johnson, page 798)

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• 1886, The Phantom's Voice (Esther Rashkin, page 801)

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• 1889: Commemoration and the Revolution (Victor Brombert, page 806)

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• 1892: Writing and the Dance (Françoise Meltzer, page 813)

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• 1895: Literature in the Classroom (Antoine Compagnon, page 819)

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• 1898: The Dreyfus Affair (Jeffrey Mehlman, page 824)

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• 1905, 9 December: On Schools, Churches, and Museums (Denis Hollier, page 830)

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• 1911: From Exoticism to Homosexuality (Richard Howard, page 836)

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• 1913: Lyrical Ideograms (Tom Conley, page 842)

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• 1914-1918: Visions of Death and Dissolution (Mary Jean Green, page 850)

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• 1920: Bourgeois Sin (David O'Connell, page 855)

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• 1922, 18 November: Death and Literary Authority (Leo Bersani, page 861)

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• 1924: From Text to Performance (Michel Beaujour, page 866)

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• 1925, November: Mise en Abyme (Jean-Joseph Goux, page 872)

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• 1925, December: "I Cannot Abide Stupidity" (Vincent Kaufmann, page 876)

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• 1928, 3 May: Amnesias (Ann Smock, page 881)

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• 1929: "Odor di Femina" [Sic] (Elaine Marks, page 887)

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• 1931, March: Sadology (Carolyn J. Dean, page 892)

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• 1931, June: Plenty of Nothing (Denis Hollier, page 894)

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• 1933, February: Negrophilia (James Clifford, page 901)

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• 1933, November: Americans in Paris (John Atherton, page 908)

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• 1933, December: "Terrorists Ask No Questions" (Douglas Collins, page 914)

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• 1934, 6 February: Birthrate and Death Wish (Denis Hollier, page 919)

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• 1935, 6 May: Staging the Plague (Sylvère Lotringer, page 924)

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• 1937, March: The Avant-Garde Embraces Science (Allan Stoekl, page 929)

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• 1937, 12 July: Committed Painting (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 935)

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• 1939: Surrealism and Négritude in Martinique (Ronnie Scharfman, page 942)

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• 1940-1944: The Honor of Poets (Ann Smock, page 948)

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• 1941: How Is Literature Possible? (Michael Syrotinksi, page 953)

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• 1942: The Problem of Belief (Samuel Kinser, page 958)

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• 1945, 6 February: Literature and Collaboration (Alice Yaeger Kaplan, page 966)

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• 1945, 15 October: Rebellion or Revolution? (Steven Ungar, page 972)

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• 1946, July: Samuel Beckett Emerges as a French Writer (Alan Astro, page 977)

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• 1949: An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France (Toril Moi, page 982)

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• 1953: The Nouveau Roman (Gerald Prince, page 988)

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• 1954, January: On Certain Tendencies of the French Cinema (Dudley Andrew, page 993)

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• 1959, 9 January: The Ministry of Fate (Rosalind Krauss, page 1000)

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• 1959, 28 October: The Theater of the Absurd (Thomas Bishop, page 1006)

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• 1960: As Is (Susan Rubin Suleiman, page 1011)

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• 1962, November: The School of Independence (Réda Bensmaïa, page 1018)

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• 1966: The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place (Mary Ann Caws, page 1023)

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• 1968, February: Francophonie and Independence (Christopher L. Miller, page 1028)

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• 1968, May: "Actions, No! Words, Yes!" (Denis Hollier, page 1034)

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• 1973: French Lib (Yve-Alain Bois, page 1040)

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• 1975: "French Feminism" (Jane Gallop, page 1045)

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• 1976, 15 November: Hubert Aquin and Quebec Literature (Patrick Coleman, page 1050)

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• 1985, 27 September: Friday Night Books (Stephen Heath, page 1054)

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• 1989: How Can One Be French? (Denis Hollier, page 1061)

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• Chronology (page 1071)

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• Map of Modern France (page 1084)

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• Acknowledgments (page 1085)

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• Contributors (page 1087)

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• Index (page 1101)

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