European Studies: French Studies (15)

Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850 - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature
  • Women and Gender Studies

Destins de femmes: French Women Writers, 1750-1850

  • John Claiborne Isbell
Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change.
Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings - cover image
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
In this two-part anthology, Jan M. Ziolkowski builds on themes uncovered in his earlier The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Here he focuses particularly on the performing arts.
'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

'The Philosophes' by Charles Palissot

  • Jessica Goodman
  • Olivier Ferret
This masterful and highly accessible translation of Les Philosophes opens up this polemical text to a non-specialist audience. It will be a valuable resource to non-Francophone scholars and students working on the philosophical exchanges of the Enlightenment.
The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie' - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Philosophy

The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie'

  • Caroline Warman
The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 3: The American Middle Ages - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 3: The American Middle Ages

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 1: The Middle Ages

  • Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.
Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy

Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

  • Denis Diderot
  • Marian Hobson
  • Kate E. Tunstall
  • Caroline Warman
Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew has achieved a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media edition offers not only a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue but provides portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, allowing a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire nationale de musique, Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique.
Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Philosophy

Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment

  • Caroline Warman
  • Caroline Warman
This anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. First published by the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values, Tolerance has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
On History: Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869) - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • History

On History: Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)

  • Jules Michelet
  • Lionel Gossman
  • Edward K. Kaplan
  • Flora Kimmich
One of the great Romantic historians, Jules Michelet served as a model and inspiration for the founders of the influential Annales school in France. This volume, consisting of three programmatic essays by Michelet with an introduction by Lionel Gossman, offers Anglophone historians a sense of this important historian’s worldview and the values underlying all his historiographical work. Taken together, the three texts can be read as a kind of manifesto of Romantic historiography, laying out a grand vision of history, what it means, why it matters, and why it is important for historians to have a lively sense of it.
Bourdieu and Literature - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

Bourdieu and Literature

  • John R.W. Speller
One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics and sociology, but his long-standing interest in literature has often been overlooked. The first full-length study of Bourdieu’s work on literature in English, this book is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu’s work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.
Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell: Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément - cover image
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: French Studies
  • Literature

Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell: Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément

  • Murielle Lucie Clément
Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as ‘deliberately repellent’ by the New York Times, Jonathan Littell’s novel tells the story of World War II through the eyes of former SS officer Maximilien Aue. In the first academic study of this controversial best-seller, twenty-one leading scholars discuss the aesthetics, themes and characters of the novel, as well as formal aspects of Littell’s writing. Offering a highly varied range of approaches, they tackle ideas around parricide, genocide, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, as well as Littell’s portrayal of historical and fictional characters.