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This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.

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'Watt taps the expertise of 40 scholars, including a sprinkling of well-known authors, with the aim to 'support, stimulate and illuminate' the reading of novels written in French ... the volume succeeds, as promised, in offering a means of rethinking the development and scope of the novel in French ... Recommended.' A. H. Pasco, CHOICE

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Adam Watt is Professor of French & Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at the University of Oxford under the late Malcolm Bowie. His publications include Reading in Proust's A la recherche: le délire de la lecture (2009), The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust (2011) and, as Editor, Marcel Proust in Context (2013).

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