The Cambridge History of French Literature

From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessin_es, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that, despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and refocuses the rich legacy of its past.

Introduction
Manuscripts and manuscript culture
The troubadours: the Occitan model
The Chansons de geste
Saints' lives, violence and community
Myth and the matière de Bretagne
Sexuality, shame and the genesis of romance
Medieval lyric: the trouvères
The grail
Women authors of the Middle Ages
Crusades and identity
Rhetoric and historiography: Villehardouin's 'La Conquête de Constantinople'
Humour and the obscene
Travel and orientalism
Allegory and interpretation
History and fiction: the narrativity and historiography of the Matter of Troy
Mysticism
Prose romance
Rhetoric and theatre
The rise of metafiction in the late Middle Ages
What does Renaissance mean?
Sixteenth-century religious writing
Sixteenth-century poetry
Sixteenth-century theatre
Women writers in the sixteenth century
Sixteenth-century prose narrative
Sixteenth-century thought
Sixteenth-century travel writing
Sixteenth-century margins
Tragedy: early- to mid-seventeenth century
Tragedy: mid- to late-seventeenth century
Seventeenth-century comedy
Seventeenth-century poetry
Seventeenth-century philosophy
Seventeenth-century women writers
Moraliste writing in the seventeenth century
Seventeenth-century prose narrative
Seventeenth-century religious writing
Seventeenth-century margins
What is Enlightenment?
The eighteenth-century novel
The eighteenth-century conte
Eighteenth-century comic theatre
Eighteenth-century theatrical tragedy
Eighteenth-century women writers
Eighteenth-century philosophy
Libertinage
Eighteenth-century travel
Eighteenth-century margins
The Roman personnel
Romanticism: arts, literature and history
Realism
French poetry 1793-1863
Symbolism
Madness and writing
Literature and the city in the nineteenth century
Nineteenth-century travel writing
Philosophy and ideology in nineteenth-century France
Naturalism
Impressionism: art, literature and history (1870-1914)
Decadence
Avant-garde: text and image
Autobiography
The modern French novel
The contemporary French novel
Existentialism
Modern French thought
French drama in the twentieth century
Twentieth-century poetry
Francophone writing
Writing and postcolonial theory
Travel writing 1914-2010
French cinema 1895-2010
Writing, memory and history
Holocaust writing and film
Women writers, artists and filmmakers
Popular culture and the case of the bande dessinée
Literature, film and new media
Bibliography
Index
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