'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century Franc

This volume of essays, written by scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-centur

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths f

Fashioned Texts and Painted Books examines the folding fan's multiple roles in fin-de-siecle and early twentieth-century French literature. Focusing on the fan'

Takes the literature of the period both as a window on various mindsets and as an object of fascination in its own right. Beginning with history, the century's