Your lecture team:

Emma Campbell, Cathy Hampton, Ingrid De Smet, Margaux Whiskin, Susannah Wilson

How to use this page:

Please click on the links below to access further information about each topic area (including further reading)

Week 1:

Introductory lecture: Defining French Sources EC

Weeks 2 – 4:

Medieval French: manuscript culture and text circulation EC

• 2 : Anglo-French: Marie de France, Laüstic (Lais)
• 3 - 4: Text and image: ways of reading, Christine de Pisan, La Cité des Dames

Weeks 5 – 10:

The Renaissance: print and polemic CH/IDS

• 5 – 8 : Books, censorship and radical ideas: Rabelais, Gargantua
• 9 - 10 : When French became the language of love: Louise Labé, Sonnets and Élégies

Weeks 11 – 14:

The Seventeenth-Century: debates about language, form and ethics: the stage CH/CS

• 11-12 : Classical tragedy: emotion and the rules: Racine, Phèdre 
• 13 - commentary workshop
• 14 - 15 : Comedy and controversy: Molière, Tartuffe

Weeks 17 – 20:

The Revolution: text, politics and dissent MW

• 15 : Revolutionary prints : French Revolution Digital Archive http://frda.stanford.edu/?locale=en and read the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen: ddhc.pdf
• 17 - 18: Revolutionary pamphlets: ‘J 'J'attends le procès de Louis XVI'proces_louis_xvi.pdf and 'J'attends le procès de Marie-Antoinette' proces_de_marie-antoinette.pdf
• 20 Sketching French Society: Maupassant, Boule de Suif SW

term 3

• 21 revision - commentary
• 22 - revision - comparative