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Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague
Thirty-five years ago Germaine Brée wrote that The Plague "is, within its limits, a great novel, the most disturbing, most moving novel yet to have come out of the chaos...
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Editor(s): Steven G. Kellman
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Approaches to Teaching Duras's Ourika
"A treasure trove and a valuable resource for students, teachers, and scholars in a variety of fields." Margaret Waller, French Review "Professors and students in French will particularly want to...
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Editor(s): Mary Ellen Birkett, Christopher Rivers
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Approaches to Teaching Montaigne's Essays
Debated and discussed by countless writers and readers during the last four hundred years, Montaigne's Essays constitutes the first example of a major new literary genre and originates the moralist...
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Editor(s): Patrick Henry
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Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland
"The depth and breadth of this volume are impressive, as much for the different subjects broached as for the range of specialists who participated in its creation. I particularly appreciate...
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Editor(s): William W. Kibler, Leslie Zarker Morgan
Each book contains a CD featuring performances of the Song of Roland.
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Approaches to Teaching Voltaire's Candide
"Candide is probably the most frequently taught work of French literature," writes Renée Waldinger, yet "students are often misled by the apparent simplicity of the tale."
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Editor(s): Renée Waldinger
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Claire d'Albe: An English Translation
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Translator(s): Margaret Cohen
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Claire d'Albe: The Original French Text
Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and...
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Author(s): Sophie Cottin
Editor(s): Margaret Cohen
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Essential Encounters
Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Translator(s): Cheryl Toman
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Gabriel: An English Translation
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Translator(s): Kathleen Robin Hart, Paul Fenouillet
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Gabriel: The Original French Text
"Sand’s [play], with its probing of masculinity and femininity, its reflection on male and female education, love and friendship, women and the law . . . [is] an excellent addition...
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Author(s): George Sand
Editor(s): Kathleen Robin Hart
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Histoire d'Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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An Introduction to Old Occitan
An Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages.
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Author(s): William D. Paden
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Letters from a Peruvian Woman
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Letters from a Peruvian Woman appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Translator(s): David Kornacker
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Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Philip Stewart, Jean Vaché
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Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie
Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie was composed as a...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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Lettres d'une Péruvienne
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Péruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation...
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Author(s): Françoise de Graffigny
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Nancy K. Miller
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Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Editor(s): Christopher Rivers
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the...
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Author(s): Adolphe Belot
Translator(s): Christopher Rivers
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Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom
Pedagogical Strategies
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom
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Editor(s): Charles J. Stivale
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Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
Translator(s): Melanie Hawthorne
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Monsieur Vénus: Roman matérialiste
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress...
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Author(s): Rachilde
Editor(s): Melanie Hawthorne, Liz Constable
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Nineteenth-Century French Literature Collection
The Nineteenth-Century French Literature Collection contains five Approaches to Teaching volumes (click on each title to get book information). MLA members receive a 20% discount on Approaches collections. |
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Ourika: An English Translation
John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Translator(s): John Fowles
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Ourika: The Original French Text
Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during...
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Author(s): Claire de Duras
Editor(s): Joan DeJean, Margaret Waller
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Rencontres essentielles
Published in 1969, Rencontres essentielles is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Editor(s): Cheryl Toman
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The Story of Ernestine
Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting...
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Author(s): Marie Riccoboni
Translator(s): Joan Hinde Stewart, Philip Stewart
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The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville
The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely...
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Author(s): François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, Charles Perrault
Editor(s): Joan DeJean
Translator(s): Steven Rendall
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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust.
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Editor(s): Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes
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Three Women
"Isabelle de Charrière is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Translator(s): Emma Rooksby
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Trois femmes
"Isabelle de Charriè is rightly prominent in the series and Trois femmes is an important work from the Revolutionary decade which will stimulate much debate in the classroom." Modern Language...
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Author(s): Isabelle de Charrière
Editor(s): Emma Rooksby
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