Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge. Ed. by TIMOTHY RASER. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 322 pp. $55. ISBN 0-87413-765-9.

As Timothy Raser explains in his opening statement, the theme which links the articles in this varied collection is that of closure. '[I]s the study of literature of art', he wonders, 'reducible to that of its context?' (p. 16). The volume sets its response between the defining thoughts of Fredric Jameson and Francoise Gaillard, and...

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