A History Of The French Novel

About this eBook

Author

Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933

Title

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800

Credits

Produced by Lee Dawei, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

French fiction -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26838

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26838

Release Date

October 8, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL
2. 2.BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY — M.A. AND HON. D.LITT. OXON.; HON. LL.D. ABERD.; HON. D.LITT. DURH.; FELLOW OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY; HON. FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD; LATE PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH — VOL. I — FROM THE BEGINNING TO 1800 — MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1917
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTORY — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II — THE MATTERS OF FRANCE, ROME, AND BRITAIN — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III — ROMANS D'AVENTURES — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — THE BEGINNINGS OF PROSE FICTION — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER V — ALLEGORY, FABLIAU, AND PROSE STORY OF COMMON LIFE — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — RABELAIS — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — THE SUCCESSORS OF RABELAIS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE "AMADIS" ROMANCES — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL—I — The Pastoral and Heroic Romance, and the Fairy Story — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL—II — From "Francion" to "La Princesse de Clèves" — Anthony Hamilton [247] — Note on Télémaque — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.CHAPTER X — LESAGE, MARIVAUX, PRÉVOST, CRÉBILLON — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — THE PHILOSOPHE NOVEL — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — "SENSIBILITY." MINOR AND LATER NOVELISTS. — THE FRENCH NOVEL, C. 1800 — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.APPENDICES
19. 19.CHRONOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF FRENCH FICTION NOTICED IN THIS VOLUME — 11th Century — 12th Century — 13th Century — 14th Century — 15th Century — 16th Century — 17th Century — 18th Century
20. 20.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES — Chapter I — Chapter II — Chapter III — Chapter IV — Chapter V — Chapter VI — Chapter VII — Chapter VIII — Chapter IX — Chapter X — Chapter XI — Chapter XII
21. 21.INDEX — THE END
22. 22.A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSODY — FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY — By Dr. GEORGE SAINTSBURY — Three Vols. 8vo. — SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUME I. — A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSODY — By Dr. GEORGE SAINTSBURY — SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUME II.
23. 23.OTHER WORKS — BY — DR. GEORGE SAINTSBURY

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