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A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
Christo Prendergast
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Description for A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
Hardback. Editor(s): Prendergast, Christopher. Num Pages: 736 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the ... Read more
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most distinguished authorities on French literature, has gathered a transatlantic group of more than thirty leading scholars who provide original essays on carefully selected writers, works, and topics that open a window onto key chapters of French literary history. The book begins in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157726
SKU
V9780691157726
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About Christo Prendergast
Christopher Prendergast is professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of King's College and the British Academy. He is the general editor of the Penguin Proust, and his many books include Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic (Princeton).
Reviews for A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century
In this splendid essay anthology, Prendergast gathers a stellar cast of scholars to provide a wide-ranging and thoughtful introduction to French literature... [E]very contribution here brings the history of French literature to vivid life, providing rich insights and inviting well-repaid rereading.
Publishers Weekly [A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone ... Read more
Publishers Weekly [A] survey of 400 years of literature in French that is both useful and interesting... [A]nyone ... Read more