Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 1 On the novel and the writing of literary history
- 2 Novels of testimony and the 'invention' of the modern French novel
- 3 Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel
- 4 Women and fiction in the nineteenth century
- 5 Popular fiction in the nineteenth century
- 6 Decadence and the fin-de-siècle novel
- 7 The Proustian revolution
- 8 Formal experiment and innovation
- 9 Existentialism, engagement, ideology
- 10 War and the Holocaust
- 11 From serious to popular fiction
- 12 The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel
- 13 The French-Canadian novel
- 14 Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel
- 15 Postmodern Frenchfiction
- General bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- 1 On the novel and the writing of literary history
- 2 Novels of testimony and the 'invention' of the modern French novel
- 3 Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel
- 4 Women and fiction in the nineteenth century
- 5 Popular fiction in the nineteenth century
- 6 Decadence and the fin-de-siècle novel
- 7 The Proustian revolution
- 8 Formal experiment and innovation
- 9 Existentialism, engagement, ideology
- 10 War and the Holocaust
- 11 From serious to popular fiction
- 12 The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel
- 13 The French-Canadian novel
- 14 Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel
- 15 Postmodern Frenchfiction
- General bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to the French NovelFrom 1800 to the Present, pp. 264 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997