This invaluable abridgement of The Oxford Companion to French Literature ranges far beyond the strictly literary and artistic field to cover aspects of French history, philosophy, religion, language, politics and education, a very wide variety of institutions, and many other facets of French cultural and social life. For this edition, Joyce Reid has revised or expanded a large number of articles and added over two hundred new ones on leading contemporary writers and such topics as the Resistance, the nouveau roman, negritude, and Structuralism.