Publication Date: 05/01/2007
No story of World War II is more triumphant than the liberation of France, made famous in countless photos of Parisians waving American flags and kissing GIs as columns of troops paraded down the Champs Élysées. But one of the least-known stories from that era is also one of the ugliest chapters in...
Publication Date: 11/01/2006
The Bayeux Tapestry is the world’s most famous textile–an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history’s most mysterious and compelling works of art. This haunting stitched account of the battle that redrew the...
Publication Date: 09/09/2004
Winner of the 2007 Gaddis Smith Book Prize (MacMillan Center, Yale University)
Struggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turned to visual forms of historical representation in a variety of media. Maurice Samuels shows how new kinds of...
Publication Date: 04/01/2000
The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillac
On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je...
Publication Date: 03/01/1999
How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? Christopher L...
Publication Date: 05/15/1996
The Laws of Hostility: Politics, Violence, and the Enlightenment
The Marquis de Sade, and not Jean-Jacques Rousseau, may be the truer voice of the Enlightenment. In this compelling reading of the canon of Enlightenment thinkers from Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Diderot to Rousseau and Sade, Pierre ...
Publication Date: 11/15/1994
The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century
The Libertine’s Progress is a comprehensive and concise study of the eighteenth-century French novel, providing a fresh look at amorous relations and offering a radical presentation of the dark side of the Enlightenment. In his...
Publication Date: 10/01/1994
A Memoir
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American...
Publication Date: 01/12/1990
University of Chicago Press / ISBN: 9780226528014
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Publication Date: 01/01/1986
“Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have … imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it ‘Africa.’ There are...
