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Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading. Drawing from a wide range of French authors, Pasco uses a number of examples to show how allusions work, how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs.

Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, this title examines the conceptual shift in the ideal of love in eighteenth-century France. It explores the radical, though gradual, changes that occurred during the Enlightenment with respect to how the emotion of love was viewed.

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The second edition of the most comprehensive collection of major 19th-century French short fiction, introduced and richly annotated by the editor, Allan H. Pasco, one of the outstanding critics in the field. A must for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as general readers.

Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

This comprehensive anthology of standard and nonstandard short fiction includes works by Stael, Denon, Stendhal, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Sand, Mirimie, Desbordes-Valmore, Flaubert, Hugo, Zola, Huysmans, Rachilde, Schwob, Barbey-d'Aurevilly, and Villiers de l'Isle d'Adam.