Author Description

About the Author Gill Rye is Lecturer in French at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. Michael Worton is Vice-Provost and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, University College, London. Product Description This book provides an up-to-date introduction to and analysis of new women's writing in contemporary France including both new writers of the 1990s and their more established counterparts. The editors' incisive introduction situates these authors and their texts at the center of the current trends and issues concerning French literary production today, while 15 original essays focus on individual writers.