Introduction: the national and the global / Susan Rubin Suleiman and Christie McDonald
Worlding medieval French / Sharon Kinoshita
"There's a new world here": Pantagruel via Oronce Finé / Tom Conley
The global and the figural: early modern reflections on boundary-crossing / Jacob Vance
Globality and classicism: the moralists encounter the self / Eric Méchoulan
From the rectangle to the globe: theater in the ancien régime / Jérôme Brillaud
Planetary perspectives in enlightenment fiction and science / Natasha Lee
Homesickness in an expanding world: the case of the nineteenth-century lyric / Evelyne Ender
Critical conventions, literary landscapes, and postcolonial ecocriticism / Françoise Lionnet
Literature, space, and the French nation-state after the 1950s / Verena Andermatt Conley
All over the place: global women writers and the Maghreb / Alison Rice
Speaking the other: constructing Frenchness in medieval England / Kimberlee Campbell
Walking east in the Renaissance / Philip John Usher
Versailles meets the Taj Mahal / Faith E. Beasley
On the ethnographic imagination in the eighteenth century / Christie McDonald
The slave trade, la françafrique, and the globalization of French / Christopher L. Miller
The voyage and its others: nineteenth-century inscriptions of mobility / Janet Beizer
Traffic in translation: rereading supervielle / Sylvia Molloy
From the French Roman colonial to the francophone postcolonial novel: René Maran as precursor / F. Abiola Irele
French literature in the world system of translation / Gisèle Sapiro
Intellectuals without borders / Lawrence D. Kritzman
Language, literature, and identity in the Middle Ages / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Negotiating with gender otherness: French literary history revisited / Danielle Haase-Dubosc
Specters of multiplicity: eighteenth-century literature revisited from the outside in / Yves Citton
Speculation and economic xenophobia as literary world systems: the nineteenth-century business novel / Emily Apter
Jews and the construction of French identity from Balzac to Proust / Maurice Samuels
Traversal of languages: the Québecois laboratory / Lise Gauvin
Space, identity, and difference in contemporary fiction: Duras, Genet, Ndiaye / Michael Sheringham
"Présence antillaise": hybridity and the contemporary French literary landscape / Mylène Priam
Choosing French: language, foreignness, and the canon (Beckett/Némirovsky) / Susan Rubin Suleiman.
French global : a new approach to literary history. ISBN 9780231147408. Published by Columbia University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.