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From Sleep Unbound portrays the life of Samya, an Egyptian woman who is taken at age 15 from her Catholic boarding school and forced into a loveless and humiliating marriage. Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn.

French fiction --- French literature

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In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter's intensive study of the novel, particularly during the critical period 1700-1720, shows that an important movement toward nineteenth century realism was taking place. To trace this development the author has selected five phenomena-time, space, names, money, and the narrator-and follows their treatment throughout the period to show why romance tended toward the novel. To show the working-out of these ideas there is a detailed analysis of one novel, Robert Challe's Les Illustres Francoises, which can be precisely located in the chain of literary influence. Its central theme of the individual in conflict with society was well suited to the forms available to the eighteenth century novelist. Consequently it appears repeatedly in important novels of the period, showing that the evolutionary process worked to some degree even on subject matter.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

French fiction --- History and criticism.

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This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Caribbean in the twentieth century. Womenwriters include relatively well known figures such as Renee Vivien, Colette, and Beauvoir, and newer writers such

Short stories, French --- French fiction.

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En 1775, à Paris, paraît un roman intitulé Le Philosophe sans prétention. L'auteur de ce « roman chimique » est Louis-Guillaume de La Folie, membre de l'Académie de Rouen et interlocuteur de quelques-uns des principaux chimistes de son temps. Du roman au mémoire académique, il n'y a qu'un pas : monsieur de La Folie invite ses lecteurs à consulter à la fois sa fiction et ses textes savants pour y trouver les démonstrations de ses théories. Son attitude est exemplaire de celle de plusieurs romanciers et scientifiques de la fin de l'Ancien Régime. Pendant que certains se méfient des « écarts de l'imagination », d'autres, au contraire, croient que le roman a quelque chose de propre à dire sur les sciences et leur avancement. Ce sont les représentations proposées par les uns et par les autres que met en lumière Joël Castonguay-Bélanger. Qui sont ces romanciers et ces scientifiques ? On croise dans Les écarts de l'imagination Buffon et Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Lavoisier et le marquis de Sade, Condorcet et Rétif de La Bretonne, Lamarck et Casanova, sans oublier quelques savants fous et des charlatans comme Mesmer. Tous ces gens se sont passionnés pour le mouvement des marées, l'ascension des premiers ballons et les théories de la reproduction. Entre boudoirs et laboratoires, ils ont voulu comprendre l'attraction des corps, au sens newtonien comme au sens libertin. Les « pyrogues aérostatiques » les intéressaient autant que les voyages au centre de la terre. Pour eux, un « amusement » pouvait être « physique » et « géométrique ». Ils ont vécu à une époque, la fin du xviiie siècle, traversée de révolutions. Celles-ci ont été politiques, scientifiques, littéraires. Le moment était venu de les embrasser d'un seul regard.

French fiction. --- Science in literature.

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An astonishingly modern novel, George Sand's Valvèdre questions traditional Romantic representations of women and exposes the disastrous consequences such notions of femininity have for both male and female characters at a time when divorce was illegal. This first English translation by Françoise Massardier-Kenney shows Sand's control of style and her understanding of the major tensions of early modern France: the role of women in society, the nature of motherhood, the relations between science and art, and the nature of prejudice.

French fiction. --- French literature. --- French literature