french literature

"In 18th century France, letter writing became . . . fashionable, particularly amongst women. In this work, [the author] opens up the world of these women through the letters which they wrote. Concentrating on the letters of four women from different social backgrounds, she shows how they came to womanhood through their writing"--OCLC.

A collection of critical essays on Stendhal's novel "The Red and the Black" arranged in chronological order of publication.

"Women in exile disrupt assumptions about exile, belonging, home and identity. For many women exiles, home represents less a place of belonging and more a point of departure, and exile becomes a creative site of becoming, rather than an unsettling state of errancy. Exile may provide propitious circumstance for women to renegotiate identities far from the strictures of home, and to appropriating new spaces of freedom in mobility. Through a feminist politics of place, displacement and subjectivity, this comparative study analyses the novels of key contemporary Francophone and Latin American writers Nancy Huston, Linda L?e, Malika Mokeddem, Cristina Peri Rossi, Laura Restrepo, and Cristina Siscar to identify a new nomadic subjectivity in the lives and works of transnational women today"--Source other than the Library of Congress.

Presents a guide to French literature, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century.

"The . . . first section focuses on history and is devoted to types of gardens ranging from the biblical Garden of Eden to English parklands; the second perceptively considers their role in literary works"--Amazon.