Professor Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast specializes in French literature and cultural history, principally of the 19th and 20th centuries. Publications include Signs of the Times: Introductory Readings in Semiotics (co-editor with Stephen Heath and Colin McCabe) 1971; Balzac: Fiction and Melodrama, 1978; The Order of Mimesis, 1986; Paris-Spectacle: Images de Paris dans la peinture au Musée d'Orsay,1987; Nineteenth-Century French Poetry. Introductions to Close Reading (editor and contributor), 1990; Writing the City. Paris and the Nineteenth Century, 1992; An Anthology of World Literature (Co-editor), 1994; Cultural Materialism. Essays on Raymond Williams (editor and contributor), 1995; The Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre (co-editor and contributor), 1995; Napoleon and History Painting, 1997; The Triangle of Representation, 2000; Debating World Literature (editor and contributor), 2004; For the People, By the People? Eugene Sue's 'Les Mysteres de Paris', 2004; The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars, 2007; The Fourteenth of July, 2008; Proust the Skeptic: Mirages and Mad Beliefs, 2013 (along with the earlier The Classic, winner of the Gapper Prize); A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century (editor and contributor), 2017; Counterfactuals: Paths of the Might Have Been, 2019; Living and Dying with Marcel Proust, 2022. He is the general editor of the Penguin translation of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (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. Modernism's Nightmare, Derrida's Ghosts, and Other Essays, Cam Rivers Publishing, 2025