In this ambitious book, Pasco closely analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relati
Pasco (French, University of Kansas) uses a combination of legal, epistolary and diary sources to complement the literary works that are the prime basis for his theory of the change in attitude toward
Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comé
Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the la
