Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors ix
4. Introduction (1) 1
5. Introduction (2) 20
6. Erasmus and the “First Renaissance” in France 47
7. Rabelais and the Low Road to Modernity 71
8. Marguerite de Navarre 91
9. Ronsard 113
10. Du Bellay and La deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse 137
11. Montaigne 155
12. Molière, Theater, and Modernity 171
13. Racine, Phèdre, and the French Classical Stage 190
14. Lafayette 212
15. From Moralists to Libertines 229
16. Travel Narratives in the Seventeenth Century 250
17. The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns 269
18. Voltaire’s Candide 291
19. Disclosures of the Boudoir 312
20. Women’s Voices in Enlightenment France 330
21. Comedy in the Age of Reason 351
22. Diderot, Le neveu de Rameau, and the Figure of the Philosophe in Eighteenth- Century Paris 371
23. Rousseau’s First Person 393
24. Realism, the Bildungsroman, and the Art of Self- Invention 414
25. Hugo and Romantic Drama 436
26. Flaubert and Madame Bovary 451
27. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud 470
28. Mallarmé and Poetry 495
29. Becoming Proust in Time 514
30. Céline/Malraux 534
31. Breton, Char, and Modern French Poetry 554
32. Césaire 575
33. Sartre’s La nausée and the Modern Novel 595
34. Beckett’s French Contexts 615
35. Djebar and the Birth of “Francophone” Literature 634
36. Acknowledgments 653
37. Index 655