Lyons John D. French literature: a very short introduction

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 137 p.Introduction: meeting French literature.
Saints, werewolves, knights, and a poète maudit: allegiance and character in the Middle Ages.
The last Roman, ‘cannibals’, giants, and heroines of modern life: antiquity and renewal.
Society and its demands.
Nature and its possibilities.
Around the Revolution.
The hunchback, the housewife, and the flâneur.
From Marcel to Rrose Selavy.
The self-centred consciousness.
French-speaking heroes without borders?
Further reading.