The Cambridge History of French Literature

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Manuscripts and manuscript culture
• 2. The troubadours: the Occitan model
• 3. The Chansons de geste
• 4. Saints' lives, violence and community
• 5. Myth and the matière de Bretagne
• 6. Sexuality, shame and the genesis of romance
• 7. Medieval lyric: the trouvères
• 8. The grail
• 9. Women authors of the Middle Ages
• 10. Crusades and identity
• 11. Rhetoric and historiography: Villehardouin's 'La Conquête de Constantinople'
• 12. Humour and the obscene
• 13. Travel and orientalism
• 14. Allegory and interpretation
• 15. History and fiction: the narrativity and historiography of the Matter of Troy
• 16. Mysticism
• 17. Prose romance
• 18. Rhetoric and theatre
• 19. The rise of metafiction in the late Middle Ages
• 20. What does Renaissance mean?
• 21. Sixteenth-century religious writing
• 22. Sixteenth-century poetry
• 23. Sixteenth-century theatre
• 24. Women writers in the sixteenth century
• 25. Sixteenth-century prose narrative
• 26. Sixteenth-century thought
• 27. Sixteenth-century travel writing
• 28. Sixteenth-century margins
• 29. Tragedy: early- to mid-seventeenth century
• 30. Tragedy: mid- to late-seventeenth century
• 31. Seventeenth-century comedy
• 32. Seventeenth-century poetry
• 33. Seventeenth-century philosophy
• 34. Seventeenth-century women writers
• 35. Moraliste writing in the seventeenth century
• 36. Seventeenth-century prose narrative
• 37. Seventeenth-century religious writing
• 38. Seventeenth-century margins
• 39. What is Enlightenment?
• 40. The eighteenth-century novel
• 41. The eighteenth-century conte
• 42. Eighteenth-century comic theatre
• 43. Eighteenth-century theatrical tragedy
• 44. Eighteenth-century women writers
• 45. Eighteenth-century philosophy
• 46. Libertinage
• 47. Eighteenth-century travel
• 48. Eighteenth-century margins
• 49. The Roman personnel
• 50. Romanticism: arts, literature and history
• 51. Realism
• 52. French poetry 1793–1863
• 53. Symbolism
• 54. Madness and writing
• 55. Literature and the city in the nineteenth century
• 56. Nineteenth-century travel writing
• 57. Philosophy and ideology in nineteenth-century France
• 58. Naturalism
• 59. Impressionism: art, literature and history (1870–1914)
• 60. Decadence
• 61. Avant-garde: text and image
• 62. Autobiography
• 63. The modern French novel
• 64. The contemporary French novel
• 65. Existentialism
• 66. Modern French thought
• 67. French drama in the twentieth century
• 68. Twentieth-century poetry
• 69. Francophone writing
• 70. Writing and postcolonial theory
• 71. Travel writing 1914–2010
• 72. French cinema 1895–2010
• 73. Writing, memory and history
• 74. Holocaust writing and film
• 75. Women writers, artists and filmmakers
• 76. Popular culture and the case of the bande dessinée
• 77. Literature, film and new media
• Bibliography
• Index.
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