An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.

Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the ve

Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance lang

This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, a

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engagi