Defining France: Reading List
Primary sources (required reading, in order)
This is the module syllabus. For guidance on introductory reading for French modules prior to your arrival, please see this page.
Marie de France, Laüstic (Lais) (Paris: Libraire générale française, 1990)
Christine de Pisan, La Cité des Dames (Paris: Stock, 1986)
Rabelais, Gargantua (Paris: Livre de Poche, 2009)
Louise Labé, Sonnets and Débat de Folie et d'Amour (Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 2004)
Molière, Tartuffe (Paris: Larousse, 2011) Petits classiques Larousse series
Racine, Phèdre (Paris: Larousse, 2011) Petits classiques Larousse series
Revolutionary Prints: French Revolution Digital Archive http://frda.stanford.edu/?locale=en and Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen: ddhc.pdf
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 (PDFs taken from the Gallica.fr site here http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k41001c.r=J%27attends+le+proc%C3%A8s+de+Louis+XVI.langEN and http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k40973g/f1.image.r=J%27attends%20le%20procès%20de%20Marie%20Antoinette.langFR )
Flaubert, St Julien l'Hospitalier in Trois Contes (Paris: Folio, 2003) Folio plus classique series
Maupassant, Boule de Suif (Paris: Folio, 2014) Folio classique series
General reading for the module (not required reading, but a suggested 'way in')
William Doyle, France and the Age of Revolution (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013)
Christie McDonald et al, French Global: A New Approach to Literary History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)