History of Fiction
[Law] Mona Ozuf
France's "novel history" moves from confrontation to reconciliation
Presents the Centennial War between the old system and the Great Revolution
An overview of the 19th-century French novel re-presents that world by re-reading 13 landmark novels by nine writers. It begins with Madame Starr's novels and ends with the novels of Anatole Francis, passing through the works of Balzac, Stendhal, Georges San, Hugo, Barbey Dolvelli, Flaubert and Zola. It presents the confrontation between the old system and the Great Revolution in the 19th century, and examines the difficult process of reconciliation between the old and new principles.
