Studies in French Language Literature and History

Originally published in 1949, this volume contains 23 essays in the field of French studies by colleagues of Professor R. L. Greene.

Fraser Mackenzie (Edited by)

9781107544765, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2015

278 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.36 kg

Originally published in 1949, this volume was created in honour of Professor R. L. Graeme Ritchie's retirement, following 26 years as the Chair of French Language and Literature in the University of Birmingham. It is composed of 23 essays on a variety of topics contributed by colleagues and fellow-workers in the field of French studies. A list of publications by Ritchie is included at the beginning of the text. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on French culture and society.

Foreword Jane Johnston Milne
Selected publications of R. L. G. Ritchie
1. Sainte-Beuve's Tableau de la poésie française au XVIe siècle and Cary's Early French Poets Ivor D. O. Arnold
2. On the origin and history of three French words Paul Barbier
3. Proust and Hardy: incidence or coincidence L. A. Bisson
4. Napoléon et ses admiratrices britanniques J. Deschamps
5. A semantic group in Alpine romance W. D. Elcock
6. A bibliography of eighteenth-century translations of Voltaire H. B. Evans
7. Guillaume d'Angleterre E. A. Francis
8. A contemporary dramatist: René Bruyez H. J. Hunt
9. Brûlé de plus de feux R. C. Knight
10. An Anglo-French collection of books in the Royal Malta library Fraser Mackenzie
11. Théophile Gautier et le dandysme esthétique J. M. Milner
12. Textual problems of the Lai de l'ombre John Orr
13. Goethe's autobiography and Rousseau's Confessions Roy Pascal
14. Une amitié entre honnêtes gens, le comte Roger de Bussy-Rabutin, 'libertin', et le père René Rapin, Jésuite Elfrieda Pichler
15. Variant readings to three Anglo-Norman poems Mildred K. Pope
16. Grammar, grimoire, glamour, gomerel T. B. W. Reid
16. A note on Taine's conception of the English mind F. C. Roe
17. Pascal and Brunschvicg Denis Saurat
18. Leconte de Lisle and Robert Burns A. Lytton Sells
19. Pontigny H. F. Stewart
20. Two French attempts to invade England during the Hundred Years' War G. Templeman
20. Ernest Renan and Alfred Loisy H. G. Wood
21. A problem of influences: Taine and the Goncourt brothers J. S. Wood
List of contributors.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]