Peter Brooks, The Novel of Worldliness: Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969).
Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Best-Sellers ofPre-Revolutionary France (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995).
Joan DeJean, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
William Doyle, The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Anne E. Duggan, Salonnieres, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005).
James F. Gaines, Social Structures inMoliere's Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984).
Dena Goodman, The Republic ofLetters:A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).
Michael Moriarty, Early Modern French Thought: TheAge of Suspicion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Michael Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Crest Ranum, Paris in the Age ofAbsolutism: An Essay (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
Lewis Carl Seifert, Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
19th century
Tim Farrant, An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature (London: Duckworth, 2007).
Alison Finch, Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Cheryl L. Krueger, The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire's Poetry in Prose (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2007).
Rosemary Lloyd (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Christopher Prendergast, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Debarati Sanyal, The Violence ofModernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
David Wakefield, The French Romantics: Literature and the Visual Arts 1800-1840 (London: Chaucer Press, 2007).
20th and 21st centuries
Lucille Frackman Becker, Twentieth-Century French Women Novelists (Boston, MA: G. K. Hall, 1989).
Victoria Best, An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature (London: Duckworth, 2002).
Dorothy Blair, Senegalese Literature in French (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1984).
Patrick Corcoran, The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Edward J. Hughes, Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature, from Loti to Genet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Ann Jefferson, Biography and the Question ofLiterature in France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Shirley Ann Jordan, Contemporary French Women's Writing: Women's Visions, Women's Voices (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005).
Michael Lucey, Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
Christopher L. Miller, Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Charles Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001).
HISTORY
A Very Short Introduction
John H. Arnold
History: A Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we understand the past. The book explores various questions provoked by our understanding of history, and examines how these questions have been answered in the past. Using examples of how historians work, the book shares the sense of excitement at discovering not only the past, but also ourselves.
'A stimulating and provocative introduction to one of collective humanity's most important quests - understanding the past and its relation to the present. A vivid mix of telling examples and clear cut analysis.'
David Lowenthal, University College London
'This is an extremely engaging book, lively, enthusiastic and highly readable, which presents some of the fundamental problems of historical writing in a lucid and accessible manner. As an invitation to the study of history it should be difficult to resist.'
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
ROUSSEAU
A Very Short Introduction
Robert Wokler
Rousseau was both a central figure of the European Enlightenment and its most formidable critic. In this study of his life, works, sources, and influence, Robert Wokler shows how Rousseau's account of the trappings of civilization across a wide range of disciplines was inspired by ideals of humanity's self-realization in a condition of unfettered freedom.
'Remarkably well-informed ... this at once chronological and thematic treatment of Rousseau's thought makes plain its unity and coherence. Addressing both philosophical and political sources as well as influences, the work includes a fine bibliographical commentary ... and commends itself through the clarity of its exposition and the rigour of its analysis.'
Raymond Trousson, Dix-huitieme siecle
One of the best-informed, most balanced, short general introductions to Rousseau ... in English. . . . Wokler's study leaves a vivid impression of Rousseau's uniqueness and originality as a thinker.'
Graeme Garrard, History of Political Thought
DADA AND SURREALISM
A Very Short Introduction
David Hopkins
The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art. In this new treatment of the subject, David Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea of the 'readymade', attitudes towards the city and the impact of Freud.
Hopkins explores the international nature of these movements and the huge range of media employed by both Dada and Surrealism. He also examines the Dadaist obsession with the body-as-mechanism in relation to the Surrealists' return to the fetishized/eroticized body.
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