The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel : From 1800 to the Present (Paperback)

Chronology; Note on literary prizes; Note on presentation; 1. On the novel and the writing of literary history Timothy Unwin; 2. Novels of testimony and the invention of the modern French novel Jann Matlock; 3. Reality and its representation in the nineteenth-century novel Alison Finch; 4. Women and fiction in the nineteenth century Margaret Cohen; 5. Popular fiction in the nineteenth century David Coward; 6. Decadence and the fin-de siecle novel Laurence M. Porter; 7. The Proustian revolution Christie McDonald; 8. Formal experiment and innovation David H. Walker; 9. Existentialism, engagement, ideology Steven Ungar; 10. War and the Holocaust Denis Boak; 11. From serious to popular fiction Stephen F. Noreiko; 12. The colonial and postcolonial Francophone novel Francoise Lionnet; 13. The French Canadian novel Denis Boak; 14. Gender and sexual identity in the modern French novel Jane Winston; 15. Postmodern French fiction: practice and theory Johnnie Gratton; General bibliography; Index.