French Literature
New Books from Oxford U Press, 1999

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Baudelaire and the Art of Memory
J. A. HIDDLESTON, Exeter College, University of Oxford

This study is an examination of Charles Baudelaire's (1821-67) art criticism and its relationship with his creative writing. It is the first book in English to treat in one volume the diverse aspects of the subject: the principal aesthetic ideas, the importance of the painters Delacroix, Boudin, Meryon, Guys, and Manet, Baudelaire's essays on laughter and caricature, and other critical writings.
328 pp.; 16 plates, & 12 halftones; 0-19-815932-3 1999 $80.00 (06)

Madame Bovary
Life in a Country Town
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Translated by GERARD HOPKINS
Introduction by ANITA BROOKNER

Echoing the original World's Classics series, this title is one of a complete set of 18 mini-hardbacks produced to a gift book standard with stitched binding, head and tail bands, printed on 60msg paper and featuring matt laminated jackets in a retro look design. The translation used here is Gerard Hopkins's classic 1949 rendition of Flaubert's great novel. The volume also boasts an introduction by Anita Brookner, whose latest novel Falling Slowly, appeared in January 1999 (Random House).
400 pp.; 0-19-210025-4 1999 $15.00 (02)

The Process of Art
Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, Music and Painting in Honour of Alan Raitt
Edited by MICHAEL FREEMAN, University of Bristol, ELIZABETH FALLAIZE, St John's College, Oxford, JILL FORBES, University of Bristol, TOBY GARFITT, Magdalen College, Oxford, and ROGER PEARSON, The Queen's College, Oxford
JANIS SPURLOCK

This book brings together in one volume essays by leading scholars in the field of nineteenth-century literature and art, all of whom have been associated with Alan Raitt as either colleagues or pupils. It also includes an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes. This is a tribute to a scholar with a truly international reputation who is one of Britain's leading authorities on the nineteenth century.

A tribute to Alan Raitt, an internationally renowned scholar and one of Britain's leading authorities on the nineteenth century, who retired from his Chair in French Literature at Oxford University in September 1997

Presents the most up to date thinking on nineteenth-century French culture

Includes an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, who has been frequently inspired in his creative writing by nineteenth-century French literature and was himself a pupil of Alan Raitt's

All of the contributors are themselves distinguished scholars and critics in the field of nineteenth-century literature and art, all former colleagues or pupils of Alan Raitt
260 pp.; frontispiece, 1 halftone, & 2 line illus; 0-19-815953-6 1999 $72.00 (06)

Sidrak and Bokkus
Volume II: Books III-IV Commentary, Appendices, Glossary, index
Edited by T. L. BURTON, University of Adelaide, Australia

This is a previously unpublished fifteenth-century book of knowledge, written in verse in question-and-answer form and enclosed in a framing adventure story. The English version is taken from an Old French source. The work covers a very wide range of topics and is of interest as an index of popular beliefs in the Middle Ages.

First edition of a popular 'book of knowledge'

Contains an extraordinarily miscellaneous and comprehensive body of 'information'

Entertaining as well as a fascinating index of medieval beliefs and ideas
514 pp.; 2 frontispiece; 0-19-722316-8 1999 $85.00 (06)

A Life, The Humble Truth
GUY MAUPASSANT
Translated with an Introduction and Notes ROGER PEARSON
A Life (1883), the first of Maupassant's six completed novels, tells the story of Jeanne de Lamare, the only daughter of wealthy Norman aristocrats. From the day she leaves convent school, her head full of innocent hopes for the future, to the moment twenty-nine years later when she becomes a grandmother under very changed circumstances, Jeanne slowly discovers that her reality does not resemble romantic fiction. Despite a handsome husband, two lovely children, and a fine chateau by the sea, her life is beset by treachery and disillusion. Now in a new translation, this Oxford World's Classics edition preserves the poignant beauty of Maupassant's prose.

"A remarkably interesting experiment, especially to be recommended to those who are interested in the question of what constitutes a story."--Henry James
288 pp.; 0-19-283298-0 $8.95 (03) paper

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