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Takes the literature of the period both as a window on various mindsets and as an object of fascination in its own right. Beginning with history, the century's

Everyone knows something of nineteenth-century France - or do they? "Les Miserables", "The Lady of the Camelias" and "The Three Musketeers", "Balzac" and "Jules

From Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined.

The traditional relationship between painting and literature underwent a profound change in nineteenth-century France. Painting progressively asserted its indep

Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant