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Christopher Prendergast specializes in French literature and cultural history, principally of the 19th听and 20th听centuries. Publications include听Signs of the Times: Introductory Readings in Semiotics听(co-editor with Stephen Heath and Colin McCabe) 1971;听Balzac: Fiction and Melodrama, 1978;听The Order of Mimesis, 1986;听Paris-Spectacle:听Images de Paris dans la peinture au Mus茅e d'Orsay,1987;听Nineteenth-Century French Poetry.听Introductions to Close Reading听(editor and contributor), 1990;听Writing the City.听Paris听and the Nineteenth Century, 1992;听An Anthology of World Literature听(Co-editor), 1994;听Cultural Materialism. Essays on Raymond Williams听(editor and contributor), 1995;听The Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre听(co-editor and contributor), 1995;听Napoleon and History Painting, 1997;听The Triangle of Representation, 2000;听Debating World Literature听(editor and contributor), 2004;听For the People, By the People? Eugene Sue's 'Les Mysteres de Paris', 2004;听The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars, 2007;听The Fourteenth of July, 2008;听Proust the Skeptic: Mirages and Mad Beliefs,听2013听(along with the earlier The Classic,听winner of the Gapper听Prize); A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century (editor and contributor), 2017;听Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been, 2019;听Living and Dying with Marcel Proust, 2022. He is the general editor of the Penguin translation of Proust's听A la recherche du temps perdu听(2002). He is also a fellow of Academia Europaea, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Officier dans l鈥極rdre des Palmes acad茅miques.听