Recent Publications

Marlene L. Daut
Publication Date:
01/01/2022

HAITIAN REVOLUTIONARY FICTIONS An Anthology, edited and with translations by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was the first antislavery and anticolonial uprising led by New World Africans to result in the creation of an independent and...
Pierre Saint-Amand
Publication Date:
07/28/2021

Suite libertine. Vies du XVIIIe siècle Turning to the libertine novels of the 18th century, this study provides an alternative history of French libertinage: spirited courtesans, noisy petits-maîtres, demystified rakes. These characters present another sexuality for the Enlightenment, away from the...
Jill Jarvis
Publication Date:
06/30/2021

The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830–1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis examines the power of literature to provide what demographic data, historical...
Morgane Cadieu
Publication Date:
06/01/2021

This introduction theorizes the littoral zone as a space for rethinking comparative literature and the environmental humanities. Beaches and ports are among the twentieth century’s most vexed and polyvalent cultural geographies. The article contends that the tidelands should be approached as a...
Thomas C. Connolly
Publication Date:
01/08/2021

Number 137/138 in Yale French Studies, this collection of essays examines poetry in French by authors from across the Maghreb Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry....
Alice Kaplan
Publication Date:
10/21/2020

Gallimard, Tracts

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Publication Date:
06/15/2020

Classiques Garnier

Donneau de Visé et le Mercure galant transforment notre rapport à la littérature du xviie siècle. À travers ses usages innovants du livre et sa maîtrise de l’actualité, l’auteur illustre l’emprise que les modes et la loi du marché exercent sur les œuvres du Grand Siècle.
Maurice Samuels
Publication Date:
04/14/2020

The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal that Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of her closest advisor in this dramatic history of power and revolution. The year was 1832 and...
Morgane Cadieu
Publication Date:
08/01/2019

Cet ouvrage explore les enjeux du hasard et de l’antihasard en littérature lorsqu’il s’agit, pour un auteur ou un personnage, d écrire, d’énumérer et de marcher. Le clinamen (cette forme de déviation aléatoire) est un paradigme esthétique qui permet de questionner le rôle du déterminisme et du ...
Publication Date:
04/23/2019

L’informatique a profondément transformé les études littéraires, qu’il s’agisse des méthodes d’investigation, des questions posées ou des corpus abordés. Pour nombre de chercheurs toutefois, les « humanités numériques » demeurent un domaine étrange et étranger, source de fantasmes et de...