Collection(s) : Le romantisme et après en France = Romanticism and after in France
Paru le 28/11/2014 | Broché 252 pages
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editor Francesco Manzini
Ce choix d'articles d'Alan Raitt présente une série de lectures croisées d'auteurs et de textes de la littérature française du dix-neuvième siècle. Le recueil s'organise autour de Flaubert et de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, les deux auteurs auxquels on associe le plus Raitt, les situant l'un par rapport à l'autre, puis à Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé et Huysmans. Ce faisant, le recueil montre à quel point l'histoire littéraire du dix-neuvième siècle apparaît et comme une succession et comme une simultanéité de styles et de credo littéraires.
This selection of essays by Alan Raitt provides a series of cross-readings of nineteenth-century French literary authors and texts. The collection revolves around Flaubert and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, the two authors with whom Raitt is most associated, situating them and their principal works in relation to each other, as well as to Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Huysmans. In so doing, the collection shows the extent to which nineteenth-century French literary history appears both as a succession and as a simultaneity of literary styles and credos.
Alan Raitt (1930-2006) was one of the most distinguished French scholars of his generation. He was Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His books include landmark studies of Flaubert, Mérimée and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the general editor of French Studies.
Francesco Manzini is a Fixed-Term Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He is the author of Stendhal's Parallel Lives (2004) and The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos (2011).
