Digressions in European Literature

CORINNE BANCROFT Independent Scholar IAN F. A. BELL Professor of American Literature, University of Keele, UK ROSS CHAMBERS former Marvin Felheim Distinguished University Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, USA FLORE COULOUMA Lecturer in English Linguistics, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France SAMUEL FREDERICK Assistant Professor of German and Film, Clemson University, USA JUDITH HAWLEY Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK J. J. LONG Professor of German, Durham University, UK LAURA MARCUS Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK PETER J. RABINOWITZ Professor of Comparative Literature, USA JEREMY ROBBINS Forbes Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK OLIVIA SANTOVETTI Lecturer in Italian Literature, University of Leeds, UK EDMUND SMYTH Reader in French, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK JEREMY TAMBLING Professor of Literature, University of Manchester, UK MARGARET TOPPING Reader in French, Cardiff University, UK DAVID WALKER Professor of French, University of Sheffield, UK

With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.