In the Sun King’s Cosmos: Comets and the Cultural Imagination of Seventeenth-Century France explores the relationship between sensory experience, state ideology, and artistic form, examining literature and art inspired by comets that unsettled the heliocentric order to which French politics and culture aspired.
A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature engages the poetic on its own terms, allowing poetic texts to dictate the search for meaning and significance and to expand our imagination of what Maghrebi literature in French was, is, and might become.
Sex Work, Text Work explores how prostitutes depicted by Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Adolphe Tabarant, and Charles-Louis Philippe confounded civil and literary efforts to contain them in space and in narrative.
Combining close readings of key texts and previously unexamined ephemera, Laura Hughes traces critical connections between Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida across their overlapping archives.
This book delves into the interwar world as it was represented in the poetry, theater, prose, and art of French-speaking avant‑garde writers and artists—creators whose aspirations for a global audience transformed everything about their intellectual movements.
This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities—occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms—sparked new queer attachments and intimacies.
Capital Letters sheds new light on how literature has dealt with the death penalty by uncovering the unexpected critical dialogue in which Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus engaged.
Behold an Animal examines the philosophical significance of animals in the French novel today. It contributes to critical scholarship on contemporary French literature, comparative literature, Derrida and Deleuze studies, and animal studies.
In Absolutist Attachments, Chloé Hogg uncovers the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV’s absolutism. This book offers a view of another kind of absolutism—not the spectacular absolutism of an unbound king but the binding connections of his subjects.
