There are three sections to this reading list. The first is the All-Program Reading List. This is comprised of books that all students are expected to read. The second is the French Language Study List. Once it has been determined which level you will be studying at, you should buy the books listed accordingly. The third section lists books according seminar. As you may already be aware, the program will be split into three seminars which will include French Literature in Translation, French History, and Sociolinguistics. Once it is determined to which seminar you will belong, you will be expected to read the books listed accordingly.

All-Program Reading List:

Censer, Jack and Hunt,Lynn. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn State, 2001)
Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Harvard, 1992)
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization
France, Anatole. The Gods Will Have Blood [THIS WILL BE THE FIRST PROGRAM BOOK]
James, CLR. Black Jacobins. (Oxford)
Weiss, Peter. Marat/Sade

French Language Study List:

Beginning: Oates & Oukada. Entre Amis. Houghton Mifflin. 4th Ed.
Advanced Beginning: Oates & Oukada. Entre Amis. Houghton Mifflin. 4th Ed.
Intermediate: Oates & Dubois. Personnages. Houghton Mifflin. 3rd Ed.
Advanced: Barson. La Grammaire à l’oeuvre. 5th ed.

Seminar Readings:

Literature in Translation Seminar:
Yourcenar, Marguerite. The Abyss
Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil (New Directions)
Hugo, Victor. Notre Dame de Paris
Mallarme, Stephane. Collected Poems
Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell, Illuminations. (Oxford)
Rimbaud, Arthur. Complete Works. (Chicago)
Huysmanns, J.-K. Against the Grain. (Oxford)
Sand, George. Intimate Journal
Zola, Emile. Germinal
Gide, André. The Immoraliste. (Vintage)

History Seminar: (in the sequence in which they will be read)
Voltaire. Candide (Penguin paperback)
Hunt, Lynn. The Family Romance of the French Revolution (U of CA, 1992)
Vaughan, William & Weston, Helen.(eds.) Jacques-Louis David's Marat (Cambridge, 2000)
Censer, Jack & Hunt, Lynn. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn State, 2001)
de Balzac, Honore. Old Goriot (Penguin paperback)
Honour, Hugh. Romanticism (Harper and Row, 1979)
Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (Harvard, 1992)
Corbin, Alain. The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in 19th Century France
Zola, Emile. Germinal (Penguin paperback)

Sociolinguistics Seminar:
Romaine, Suzanne. Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. 2nd ed. Oxford.
Ager, Dennis. Sociolinguistics and Contemporary French. Cambridge