Contents
List of Contributors, ix
Introduction (1): Aims, Methods, Stories, 1
Christopher Prendergast
Introduction (2): The Frenchness of French Literature, 20
David Coward
Erasmus and the "First Renaissance" in France, 47
Edwin M. Duval
Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity, 71
Raymond Geuss
Marguerite de Navarre: Renaissance Woman, 91
Wes Williams
Ronsard: Poet Laureate, Public Intellectual, Cultural Creator, 113
Timothy J. Reiss
Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse, 137
Hassan Melehy
Montaigne: Philosophy before Philosophy, 155
Timothy Hampton
Molière, Theater, and Modernity, 171
Christopher Braider
Racine, Phèdre, and the French Classical Stage, 190
Nicholas Paige
Lafayette: La Princesse de Clèves and the Conversational Culture of Seventeenth-Century Fiction, 212
Katherine Ibbett
From Moralists to Libertines, 229
Eric Méchoulan
Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century: La Fontaine and Cyrano de Bergerac, 250
Judith Sribnai
The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, 269
Larry F. Norman
Voltaire's Candide: Lessons of Enlightenment and the Search for Truth, 291
Nicholas Cronk
Disclosures of the Boudoir: The Novel in the Eighteenth Century, 312
Pierre Saint-Amand
Women's Voices in Enlightenment France, 330
Catriona Seth
Comedy in the Age of Reason, 351
Susan Maslan
Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth-Century Paris, 371
Kate E. Tunstall
Rousseau's First Person, 393
Joanna Stalnaker
Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self-Invention: Stendhal and Balzac, 414
Aleksandar Stevic
Hugo and Romantic Drama: The (K)night of the Red, 436
Sarah Rocheville and Etienne Beaulieu
Flaubert and Madame Bovary, 451
Peter Brooks
Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud: Poetry, Consciousness, and Modernity, 470
Clive Scott
Mallarmé and Poetry: Stitching the Random, 495
Roger Pearson
Becoming Proust in Time, 514
Michael Lucey
Céline/Malraux: Politics and the Novel in the 1930s, 534
Steven Ungar
Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry, 554
Mary Ann Caws
Césaire: Poetry and Politics, 575
Mary Gallagher
Sartre's La Nausée and the Modern Novel, 595
Christopher Prendergast
Beckett's French Contexts, 615
Jean-Michel Rabaté
Djebar and the Birth of "Francophone" Literature, 634
Nicholas Harrison
Acknowledgments, 653
Index, 655
