Examines the theoretical writings of the major French novelists of the eighteenth century.

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the

These Studies in Eighteenth-Century French Literature presented to Robert Niklaus were written by former students and colleagues and by his friends, to mark his

Fiction has always been in a state of transformation and circulation: how does this history of mobility inform the emergence of the novel? The Spread of Novels

This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explor