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Literary Criticism
An Autopsy
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812216257
Pub Date: August 1997
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9780812247794
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces the shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial novels of the 1860s to cyberpunk fictions today.
Paperwork
Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812238884
Pub Date: September 2005
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Paperwork challenges traditional approaches to print culture and the mass media in the nineteenth century. Kevin McLaughlin argues for a literary-critical approach to the impact of the mass media on literature through a series of detailed interpretations of fiction by Poe, Stevenson, Melville, Dickens, and Hardy.
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812238600
Pub Date: March 2005
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Kavanagh argues that the history of gambling as a cultural practice provides new and important insights into how French culture has responded to the challenge of understanding what identity, responsibility, and freedom can mean in a world ruled largely by chance.
Institutions of the English Novel
From Defoe to Scott
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812216035
Pub Date: May 1998
Format: Paperback
244 Pages
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812216172
Pub Date: June 1997
Format: Paperback
232 Pages
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812239317
Pub Date: June 2006
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Goulet argues that modern narrative forms are crucially structured by scientific and philosophical debates about the nature of vision.
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812236460
Pub Date: April 2002
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
"Schoolcraft's memorable biography of Gary, the first to appear in English, will serve as a point of departure for anyone who is interested in twentieth-century French fiction."—Choice
Esthetics of the Moment
Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812233797
Pub Date: January 1996
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future.
Caught on Camera
Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812245561
Pub Date: December 2013
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Combining the practical knowledge of a renowned director with the perspective of a historian and media specialist, Christian Delage explores the conditions and consequences of using film for the purposes of justice and memory by examining archival footage from war crime trials from Nuremberg to the present.
Literary Criticism
An Autopsy
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812216257
Pub Date: August 1997
Format: Paperback
176 Pages
Legacies of the Rue Morgue
Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9780812247794
Pub Date: December 2015
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Paperwork
Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812238884
Pub Date: September 2005
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812238600
Pub Date: March 2005
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Institutions of the English Novel
From Defoe to Scott
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812216035
Pub Date: May 1998
Format: Paperback
244 Pages
Mourning Glory
The Will of the French Revolution
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812216172
Pub Date: June 1997
Format: Paperback
232 Pages
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812239317
Pub Date: June 2006
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Romain Gary
The Man Who Sold His Shadow
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812236460
Pub Date: April 2002
Format: Hardcover
224 Pages
Esthetics of the Moment
Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812233797
Pub Date: January 1996
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Caught on Camera
Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812245561
Pub Date: December 2013
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages