English Showalter

Biographic Data

ID3681613
NAMEEnglish Showalter
GIVEN NAMESEnglish
FAMILY NAMEShowalter
SIGNATURESHOWALTER E
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX1

  • Prose fiction

    Open AccessEnglish ShowalterCHAPTERThe Cambridge History of Literary…1997

    The debate in the classical era: roman and nouvelle Introduction Fictional prose narratives of several types were popular in France throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Some have always been called rotnans , the standard word for the English term ‘novel’. The history of the French novel therefore begins in the early medieval period; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the genre achieved new prominence and stature. A serious critica…

  • Madame a fait un livre

    English ShowalterARTICLERecherches sur Diderot et sur l…1997Cited by: 1References: 1

    English Showalter : « Madame a fait un livre » : Madame de Graffigny, Palissot et Les Philosophes. Cet article fournit des renseignements nouveaux, tirés de la correspondance de Mme de Graffigny, relatifs au début de la carrière de Palissot, entre 1750 et 1755. On y voit sa présence régulière dans le salon de Mme de Graffigny, son emploi des conseils et de la protection de son hôtesse, et enfin son exclusion de chez elle parce qu'elle le considér…

  • Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions

    English Showalter, Thomas DipieroARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1993

    Introduction Part I. The Construction of a Genre: 1. The rise of aristocratic fiction 2. The ideology of realism in the early seventeenth century 3. Polexandre and the politics of heroic fiction 4. The alienation and commodification of the novel Part II. The Development of the Modern Novel: 5. Le Roman bourgeois and the modern novel 6. A discourse of one's own: La Princesse de Cleves 7. Mastery and seduction in eighteenth-century fiction 8. 'Burn…

  • Vierge du Soleil/Fille des Lumieres

    English ShowalterARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1990Cited by: 1

  • Writing off the Stage

    English ShowalterARTICLEYale French Studies1988

    English Showalter, Jr., Writing off the Stage: Women Authors and Eighteenth-Century Theater, Yale French Studies, No. 75, The Politics of Tradition: Placing Women in French Literature (1988), pp. 95-111

  • Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny, Tome I

    Madelyn Gutwirth, English Showalter et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1986

  • Authorial Self-Consciousness in the Familiar Letter

    English ShowalterARTICLEYale French Studies1986

  • L'Autobiographie

    English Showalter, Georges MayARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

  • Madame de Graffigny and Her Salon

    English ShowalterARTICLEStudies in eighteenth century…1977

    Madame de Graffigny and Her Salon ENGLISH SHOWALTER, Jr. The salon, which, as every student of French literature learns, was the cradle of classicism and the home of good taste for two centuries, has disappeared not only from French society but apparently from the concerns of eighteenth-century scholars as well. The 1950 edition of the Critical Bibliography of French Literature required one hundred twenty-five entries, almost four per cent of the…

  • The Evolution of the French Novel

    Georges May, English ShowalterARTICLEComparative Literature1973

  • Eighteenth-Century French Fiction

    English ShowalterARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1972

  • Money Matters and Early Novels

    English ShowalterARTICLEYale French Studies1968