French Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Postwar Renoir

   Film and the Memory of Violence

   By Colin Davis

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma. The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu was a...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France

   By John McCormick

   This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. Whereas other studies offer a traditional approach to the theatres of high culture, John McCormick...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Le Japon dans la litterature francaise 1880-99 (ES 2-vol. set)

   There is a growing interest in the French Japonism movement of the late nineteenth century, and academic research in the subject is developing in both quantity and quality. However, much of this scholarly activitiy is confined to the area of art history and, apart from some work on leading authors...

   Published March 14th 2011 by Edition Synapse
4. Before Auschwitz

   Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

   By Angela Kershaw

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. Les Liaisons Dangereuses

   By Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

   Series: Routledge Classics

   ‘I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it.’ - Choderlos de Laclos A great sensation at the time of first publication, Les Liaisons Dangereuses reads as much the most 'modern' of eighteenth-century novels. Viewed by some...

   Published August 31st 2010 by Routledge
6. A Critical History of French Children's Literature

   Volume Two: 1830-Present

   By Penelope E. Brown

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and...

   Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
7. A Critical History of French Children's Literature

   Volume One: 1600–1830

   By Penelope E. Brown

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   These books are the first full-length, comprehensive study written in English of French children’s literature. They provide both an overview of developments from the seventeenth century to the present day and detailed discussion of texts that are representative, innovative, or influential...

   Published December 6th 2009 by Routledge
8. Marcel Proust

   Edited by Leighton Hodson

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
9. Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination

   By Pratima Prasad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels—that is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire...

   Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge
10. Testimony from the Nazi Camps

    French Women's Voices

    By Margaret Anne Hutton

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the...

    Published December 9th 2004 by Routledge