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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Professor Christopher Prendergast

Position(s): 
Professor Emeritus in French and Fellow of the British Academy
Department/Section: 
French
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Telephone number: 
(+44) (0)1223 355051
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King's CollegeÌý King's ParadeÌý º£½ÇÉçÇø CB2 1ST

About: 

Christopher Prendergast specializes in French literature and cultural history, principally of the 19thÌýand 20thÌýcenturies. Publications includeÌýSigns of the Times: Introductory Readings in SemioticsÌý(co-editor with Stephen Heath and Colin McCabe) 1971;ÌýBalzac: Fiction and Melodrama, 1978;ÌýThe Order of Mimesis, 1986;ÌýParis-Spectacle:ÌýImages de Paris dans la peinture au Musée d'Orsay,1987;ÌýNineteenth-Century French Poetry.ÌýIntroductions to Close ReadingÌý(editor and contributor), 1990;ÌýWriting the City.ÌýParisÌýand the Nineteenth Century, 1992;ÌýAn Anthology of World LiteratureÌý(Co-editor), 1994;ÌýCultural Materialism. Essays on Raymond WilliamsÌý(editor and contributor), 1995;ÌýThe Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, GenreÌý(co-editor and contributor), 1995;ÌýNapoleon and History Painting, 1997;ÌýThe Triangle of Representation, 2000;ÌýDebating World LiteratureÌý(editor and contributor), 2004;ÌýFor the People, By the People? Eugene Sue's 'Les Mysteres de Paris', 2004;ÌýThe Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars, 2007;ÌýThe Fourteenth of July, 2008;ÌýProust the Skeptic: Mirages and Mad Beliefs,Ìý2013Ìý(along with the earlier The Classic,Ìýwinner of the GapperÌýPrize); A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century (editor and contributor), 2017;ÌýCounterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been, 2019;ÌýLiving and Dying with Marcel Proust, 2022. He is the general editor of the Penguin translation of Proust'sÌýA la recherche du temps perduÌý(2002). He is also a fellow of Academia Europaea, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Officier dans l‘Ordre des Palmes académiques.Ìý