On Writing Literary History / Denis Hollier -- 778: Entering the Date / John Benton -- 842: The Birth of Medieval Studies / R. Howard Bloch -- 1050?: Saints' Lives / Brigitte Cazelles -- 1095: The Epic / Joseph J. Duggan -- 1123?: Manuscripts / Laura Kendrick -- 1127: The Old Provençal Lyric / Stephen G. Nichols -- 1152: The Romances of Antiquity / Jean-Charles Huchet -- 1165: Erec et Enide / Eugene Vance -- 1175: Fables and Parodies / Kathryn Gravdal -- 1180?: Marie de France / Joan M. Ferrante -- 1181?: The Grail / Alexandre Leupin -- 1202: Old French Prose Historiography / Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- 1209?: Arthurian Romance in Prose / E. Jane Burns -- 1210 --The Fabliaux / Charles Muscatine -- 1214, 27 July: Literature and History / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinsk --
1215, November: The Impact of Christian Doctrine / Evelyn Birge Vitz -- 1225?: Generic Hybrids / Kevin Brownlee -- 1267: Medieval Rhetoric / Douglas Kelly -- 1277, 7 March: Jean de Meun's Le roman de la rose / David F. Hult -- 1300?: Medieval Vernacular Drama / Donald Maddox -- 1342?: Lyricism in the Age of Allegory / Kevin Brownlee -- 1401, St. Valentine's Day: Trials of Eros / Jacqueline Cerquiglini -- 1456: "I the Scholar François Villon" / Nancy Freeman Regalado -- 1460?: Farces, Morality Plays, and Soties / Barbara C. Bowen -- 1493: The Rhétoriqueurs / François Rigolot -- 1512: Writing without Reserve / Terence Cave -- 1517: Humanist Models / Timothy Hampton -- 1526, July: Life-Saving Stories / Natalie Zemon Davis -- 1527: Margaret of Navarre / Carla Freccero --
1528: Manners and Mannerisms at Court / Nancy J. Vickers -- 1532: Rabelais and Textual Architecture / Edwin M. Duval -- 1534, Fall: Literary Banquets / Michel Jeanneret -- 1534, 17-18 October: Evangelism / Gérard Defaux -- 1536: Emblems / Daniel S. Russell -- 1536, Summer: The Sonnet / François Rigolot -- 1538, 6 March: Dialogue / Jean-Claude Carron -- 1539: The Birth of French Lexicography / Terence R. Wooldridge -- 1541, July: Translation as Literature / Glyn P. Norton -- 1541, September: Calvin the Writer / Francis M. Higman -- 1542: The Neoplatonic Debate / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- 1544: The Architecture of Poetic Sequences / Doranne Fenoaltea -- 1549: A New Intellectual Elite / Margaret Ferguson -- 1550: Inspiration and Poetic Glory / Michel Beaujour -- 1552: Renaissance Comedy / Donald Stone, Jr. -- 1553, March: The Origin of French Tragedy / Timothy J. Reiss --
1553, June: Antiquities and Antiquaries / Eric MacPhail -- 1555, July: Petrarchism with a Difference / Ann Rosalind Jones -- 1555, 13 September: Books in Print / Antoine Compagnon -- 1562: Scientific Poetry / Dudley B. Wilson -- 1563, 18 August: Anti-Dictator / Stephen Greenblatt -- 1566: History and Vernacular Humanism / Donald R. Kelley -- 1572, 24 August: Poetry and Action / Ullrich Langer -- 1573: From Mannerism to Baroque / Lance K. Donaldson-Evans -- 1578: Antarctic France / Michel Jeanneret -- 1581: The Spectacle of Power / Margaret M. McGowan -- 1595: Montaigne and His Readers / Richard L. Regosin -- 1609: Devout Humanism / Paul A. Chilton -- 1619: Pastoral Fiction / Louise K. Horowitz -- 1627: The Age of the Technician / John D. Lyons --
1634, 13 March: The Académie Française / Timothy Murray -- 1637: Toward French Classical Tragedy / Mitchell Greenberg -- 1640: Problems in Logic and Rhetoric / Timothy J. Reiss -- 1647: The Subject of Modern Discourse / Thomas G. Pavel -- 1648, 26-28 August: The Sound of the Fury / Pierre Ronzeaud -- 1651: Cultural Life outside Paris / Bernard Beugnot -- 1654: The Salons and "Preciosity" / Joan DeJean -- 1657: Figures of Social and Semiotic Dissent / Jean Alter -- 1660: Autocritical Dramaturgy / Marcel Gutwirth -- 1661: From Roi Soleil to Louis le Grand / Jean-Marie Apostolidès -- 1664: Jansenist Tragedy / Philip E. Lewis -- 1668: Moralists / Georges Van Den Abbeele -- 1673, 17 February: The Comic at Its Limits / Gérard Defaux --
1674: On the Sublime, Infinity, Je Ne Sais Quoi / Louis Marin -- 1677: Historiography in the Age of Absolutism / Roger Chartier -- 1678: The Emergence of the Novel / John D. Lyons -- 1680, 21 October: The Comédie-Française / Jacques Guicharnaud -- 1685: Religious Controversies / Domna C. Stanton -- 1687: The Ancients and the Moderns / Robert J. Nelson -- 1689: Pedagogy / John D. Lyons -- 1694: Linguistic Absolutism / Alain Rey -- 1697: Marginal Writing / Lionel Gossman -- 1699: Racine and the French New Criticism / Jean Alter -- 1700: Classics in the Making / Joan DeJean -- 1704: Sunset Years / Walter E. Rex -- 1707?: Fêtes Galantes / Thomas Crow -- 1721: Others / James Creech -- 1725: The Politics of Epistolary Art / Janet Gurkin Altman --
1727: Portrait of the Philosopher as a Tramp / Jack Undank -- 1734: Intricacies of Literary Production / English Showalter, Jr. -- 1735: The Gender of the Memoir-Novel / Nancy K. Miller -- 1750: Beauty in Context / Gita May -- 1751: Ordering Knowledge / Daniel Brewer -- 1754?: Origins / Peggy Kamuf -- 1754: From Natural Philosophy to Scientific Discourse / Wilda Anderson -- 1759, January: On Cultivating One's Garden / Aram Vartanian -- 1759, 23 April: Clearing the Stage / Jay L. Caplan -- 1759, August-September: Salons / Michael Fried -- 1761, February: The Novel and Gender Difference / Ronald C. Rosbottom -- 1761, December: What Was Enlightenment? / Lionel Gossman -- 1762: Writing the Political / Patrick Coleman -- 1769: Reason / Christie McDonald --
1770: Kisses, en Taille Douce / Philip Stewart -- 1771: Diderot at the Crossroads of Speech / Jack Undank -- 1772: Utopias / Mark Poster -- 1774, 19 April: A War at the Opera / Herbert Josephs -- 1782, March: Words and "the Thing" / Peter Brooks -- 1782, May: Autobiographical Acts / Virginia E. Swain -- 1784, 27 April: Pre-Revolution (a Comedy) / Jacques Guicharnaud -- 1787: Designing Women / Joan Hinde Stewart -- 1788: Civil Rights and the Wrongs of Women / Madelyn Gutwirth -- 1789: Seventeen Eighty-nine / Sandy Petrey -- 1791, 13 January: Language under Revolutionary Pressure / Martine Reid -- 1791, Summer: Pleasure, Perversion, Danger / Chantal Thomas -- 1794, 8 June: Twilight of the Gods / Marie-Hélène Huet --
1794, 25 July: Unfinished Work / E. S. Burt -- 1799, 10 October: The Ideologists / Frank Paul Bowman -- 1800: The Melodramatic Imagination / Peter Brooks -- 1802, 14 April: Gothic Revival / Anthony Vidler -- 1808, 17 March: Discipline and Melancholy / Patrizia Lombardo -- 1814, 4 June: Restoration Freedom and Repression / Tzvetan Todorov -- 1816, 8 May: Women's Voices in Literature and Art / Sarah Maza -- 1820: The Lady in the Lake / Barbara Johnson -- 1823: Romantic Historiography / Hayden White -- 1827, February: The Invention of the Renaissance / François Rigolot -- 1827, December: Drama / Jean Gaudon -- 1830, 27-29 July: An Oedipal Crisis / Peter Brooks -- 1833: The Scandal of Realism / Naomi Schor --
1834: Romanticism and Social Vision / Sandy Petrey -- 1835: Dialogues with the Muse / Nathaniel Wing -- 1836, 25 October: Egypt in Paris / Denis Hollier -- 1837: Fantastic Tales / Ora Avni -- 1839: Body Bildung and Textual Liberation / D. A. Miller -- 1840: Discourses on Misery / Robert Bezucha -- 1843, 9 June: Publishing Novels / Lucienne Frappier-Mazur -- 1847, 23 December: Orientalism, Colonialism / Christopher L. Miller -- 1848: Class Struggles in France / Richard Terdiman -- 1851, 2 December: Literature Deterritorialized / Ross Chambers -- 1852, 2 December: Bonapartism / Richard Terdiman -- 1853: French Poe / Jefferson Humphries -- 1857: Two Trials / Dominick LaCapra --
1859, 23 July: Poète Maudite / Michael Danaby -- 1859, 7 December: Exile from Within, Exile from Without / Nathaniel Wing -- 1866: The Dream of Stone / Barbara Johnson -- 1869: Tics / Ora Avni -- 1871, 15 May: Commune Culture / Kristin Ross -- 1873: Exit and Save / Norbert Bonenkamp -- 1874: Haute Couture and Haute Culture / Sima Godfrey -- 1876: Idealism / Naomi Schor -- 1877: Nature, Society, and the Discourse of Class / Sandy Petrey -- 1880: Prostitution in the Novel / Charles Bernheimer -- 1884: Decadence / Jefferson Humphries -- 1885, February: The Music of the Future / Richard Sieburth -- 1885, June: The Liberation of Verse / Barbara Johnson -- 1886: The Phantom's Voice / Esther Rashkin --
1889: Commemoration and the Revolution / Victor Brombert -- 1892: Writing and the Dance / Françoise Meltzer -- 1895: Literature in the Classroom / Antoine Compagnon -- 1898: The Dreyfus Affair / Jeffrey Mehlman -- 1905, 9 December: On Schools, Churches, and Museums / Denis Hollier -- 1911: From Exoticism to Homosexuality / Richard Howard -- 1913: Lyrical Ideograms / Tom Conley -- 1914-1918: Visions of Death and Dissolution / Mary Jean Green -- 1920: Bourgeois Sin / David O'Connell -- 1922, 18 November: Death and Literary Authority / Leo Bersani -- 1924: From Text to Performance / Michel Beaujour -- 1925, November: Mise en Abyme / Jean-Joseph Goux -- 1925, December: "I Cannot Abide Stupidity" / Vincent Kaufmann --
1928, 3 May: Amnesias / Ann Smock -- 1929: "Odor di Femina" [Sic] / Elaine Marks -- 1931, March: Sadology / Carolyn J. Dean -- 1931, June: Plenty of Nothing / Denis Hollier -- 1933, February: Negrophilia / James Clifford -- 1933, November: Americans in Paris / John Atherton -- 1933, December: "Terrorists Ask No Questions" / Douglas Collins -- 1934, 6 February: Birthrate and Death Wish / Denis Hollier -- 1935, 6 May: Staging the Plague / Sylvère Lotringer -- 1937, March: The Avant-Garde Embraces Science / Allan Stoekl -- 1937, 12 July: Committed Painting / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- 1939: Surrealism and Négritude in Martinique / Ronnie Scharfman -- 1940-1944: The Honor of Poets / Ann Smock --
1941: How Is Literature Possible? / Michael Syrotinski -- 1942: The Problem of Belief / Samuel Kinser -- 1945, 6 February: Literature and Collaboration / Alice Yaeger Kaplan -- 1945, 15 October: Rebellion or Revolution? / Steven Ungar -- 1946, July: Samuel Beckett Emerges as a French Writer / Alan Astro -- 1949: An Intellectual Woman in Postwar France / Toril Moi -- 1953: The Nouveau Roman / Gerald Prince -- 1954, January: On Certain Tendencies of the French Cinema / Dudley Andrew -- 1959, 9 January: The Ministry of Fate / Rosalind Krauss -- 1959, 28 October: The Theater of the Absurd / Thomas Bishop --
1960: As Is / Susan Rubin Suleiman
1962, November: The School of Independence / Réda Bensmaïa
1966: The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place / Mary Ann Caws
1968, February: Francophonie and Independence / Christopher L. Miller
1968, May: "Actions, No! Words, Yes!" / Denis Hollier
1973: French Lib / Yve-Alain Bois
1975: "French Feminism" / Jane Gallop
1976, 15 November: Hubert Aquin and Quebec Literature / Patrick Coleman
1985, 27 September: Friday Night Books / Stephen Heath.
