LEADER 03453nam 22005052 450 001 996205079503316 005 20151109030845.0 010 $a1-139-81549-0 010 $a1-139-00023-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000820234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000371819 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268279 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000371819 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10412903 035 $a(PQKB)11775943 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139000239 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2050350 035 $a(PPN)180903640 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000820234 100 $a20110114d1997|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to the French novel $efrom 1800 to the present /$fedited by Timothy Unwin$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 281 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-49914-3 311 $a0-521-49563-6 327 $aOn the novel and the writing of literary history / Timothy Unwin -- Novels of testimony and the 'invention' of the modern French novel / Jann Matlock -- Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel / Alison Finch -- Women and fiction in the nineteenth century / Margaret Cohen -- Popular fiction in the nineteenth century / David Coward -- Decadence and the fin-de-sie?cle novel / Laurence M. Porter -- The Proustian revolution / Christie McDonald -- Formal experiment and innovation / David H. Walker -- Existentialism, engagement, ideology / Steven Ungar -- War and the Holocaust / Denis Boak -- From serious to popular fiction / Stephen F. Noreiko -- The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel / Franc?oise Lionnet -- The French-Canadian novel / Denis Boak -- Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel / Jane Winston -- Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory / Johnnie Gratton. 330 $aThis volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures, while deliberately reading traditional views of literary history against the grain. Theoretical discussion is combined with close reading of texts and exploration of context, comparison with other genres and other literatures, and reference to novels from earlier periods. This companionable introduction includes a chronology and guide to further reading. From it emerges a strong sense of the vitality and energy of the modern French novel, and of the debates surrounding it. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 606 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a843/.009 702 $aUnwin$b Timothy A. 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996205079503316 996 $aThe Cambridge companion to the French novel$92493571 997 $aUNISA