About the Author

Lawrence R. Schehr is Professor of French at the University of Illinois. His most recent books are Rendering French Realism (Stanford, 1997) and Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies (Stanford, 1997).

Reviews

"This complex and deep book, the result of a great deal of careful reflection, opens a perspective on realism that differs from those in the existing critical literature. The notion of alterity allows the author to bring together texts from different moments in the tradition of realism and to establish a new and original commonality among them. The range of the book's argument, its sweep, is impressive, and it will stimulate debate and provoke fruitful scholarly reactions." - David Bell,Duke University