French
literature
Contents:
The Middle
Ages
Early Old
French literature
The
origins of the French language
The
context and nature of French medieval literature
The
chansons de geste
The
romance
Lyric
poetry to the 13th century
Satire,
the fabliaux, and the Roman de Renart
Allegory
Lyric
poetry in the 14th century
Villon
and his contemporaries
Prose
literature
Religious
drama
Secular
drama
Anglo-Norman
literature
The 16th century
Language and learning
in 16th-century Europe
The
elevation of the French language
La
Pleiade
The
grands rhetoriqueurs
Major
authors and influences
Poetry
Prose
The 17th century
Literature
and society
Refinement
of the language
Development
of drama
The
heroic ideal
The
honnete homme
Racine's
fatalism
Nondramatic
verse
The Classical
manner
Religious
authors
The
Ancients and the Moderns
The
18th century: from Louis XIV to the Revolution
The
Enlightenment
Drama
Tragedy
and the survival of Classical form
Marivaux
and Beaumarchais
Bourgeois
drama
Poetry
The
novel
Rousseau
Laclos
and others
Entering the 19th
century: from the Revolution to 1850
Revolution
and empire
The
poetry of Andre Chenier
Revolutionary
oratory and polemic
Chateaubriand
Mme
de Stael and the debate on literature
Romanticism
Foreign
influences
The
poetry of the Romantics
Lamartine
The
early poetry of Hugo
Vigny
Musset
Nerval
Romantic
theatre
Hugo
Vigny
Musset
The novel from Constant
to Balzac
The
historical novel
Stendhal
George
Sand
Nodier,
Merimee, and the conte
Balzac
19th-century thought
Literary
criticism and journalism
Historical
writing
The
intellectual climate before 1848
Renan,
Taine, and the movement of ideas in the second half of the 19th
century
Completing the 19th century: from
1850 to 1900
New
directions in poetry
Gautier
and l'art pour l'art
Leconte
de Lisle and Parnassianism
Baudelaire
The
later poetry of Victor Hugo
Realism
in the novel
Diversity
among the Realist school
Gustave
Flaubert
Drama after
1850
Naturalism
Emile
Zola
Guy
de Maupassant
The
reaction against reason
The
Decadents: Verlaine and Laforgue
Symbolism:
Rimbaud and Mallarme
The
novel later in the century
Beginning
the 20th century: from 1900 to 1940
The
legacy of the 19th century
The
Nouvelle Revue Francaise and its writers
The
impact of World War I
Political
commitment
The pamphlet
The novel between the
wars
Poetry
Theatre
The Eve Of World War II
Continuing the 20th century: from
1940
The German
occupation and postwar France
The
nouveau roman
Experiments
in theatre
Postwar
poetry
The 1960s
The events of 1968
Literature after 1970
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