Publication Date: 09/01/2016
Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Published by University of Chicago Press
The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It’s the rare novel that’s as at likely to be found in a...
Publication Date: 10/21/2015
La France a été la première nation européenne à accorder la citoyenneté aux Juifs, en 1790-1791. Ce faisant, la Révolution les a placés face à un dilemme: comment demeurer juif (ou, comme ils préféraient se désigner : israélite) tout en devenant français? Dans ces courts romans, ces nouvelles...
Publication Date: 01/09/2015
Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865
First systematic and comparative literary-historical approach to the Haitian Revolution.
Deals with literatures written in several different languages (German, English, French, and Haitian...
Publication Date: 01/01/2014
Ce livre prend le XVIIIe siècle à contre–courant. S’il faut s’en souvenir comme celui de l’industrie émergente, la paresse en effet ne cesse d’être condamnée par les philosophes et l’économie nouvelle. Mais nous trouvons des marginaux de la poussée du capital et de la propagande de l’action, des...
Publication Date: 03/01/2013
The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
A year in Paris … since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
All...
Publication Date: 02/01/2013
Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France...
Publication Date: 01/01/2013
By Jonathan Hess (Editor), Maurice Samuels (Editor), Nadia Vaiman (Editor)
Recent scholarship has brought to light the existence of a dynamic world of specifically Jewish forms of literature in the nineteenth century—fiction by Jews, about Jews, and often designed largely for Jews. This volume...
Publication Date: 05/29/2011
The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry — not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and...
Publication Date: 12/01/2009
In this book, Maurice Samuels brings to light little known works of literature produced from 1830 to 1870 by the first generation of Jews born as French citizens. These writers, Samuels asserts, used fiction as a laboratory to experiment with new forms of Jewish identity relevant to the modern...
Publication Date: 01/01/2008
The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on...
