Product Description: Unique comprehensive anthology of standard and non-standard short fiction by Stael, Denon, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Sand, Mérimée, Desbordes-Valmore, Flaubert, Hugo, Zola, Huysmans, Rachilde, Schwob, Barbey-d'Aurevilly, and Villiers de l'Isle d'Adam...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1994 by the University of Toronto Press, this pioneering study looks empirically at the way allusion works in specific fictions and affects the reading process. Clear, concise definitions and distinctions are illustrated by brilliant close readings of Flaubert, Stendhal, Balzac, Zola, Proust, and Robbe-Grillet...read more

Product Description: Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work brings together seventeen papers originally presented at the nineteenth annual Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies held at the University of Kansas in 1993. Contributors include well-known critics as well as younger scholars working in the field.