Ann Jefferson, M.A., D.Phil, FBA, Commandeur dans l’ordre des palmes académiques
Emeritus Professor of French Literature; Emeritus Fellow of New College
Publications
BOOKS
Angles of Approach. Selected Essays (Cambridge: MHRA Legenda, 2024) https://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Angles-Approach
Nathalie Sarraute, Une réalité inconnue. Essais et entretiens, 1956-1986, edited by Ann Jefferson (Paris: Gallimard, 2023) https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/Une-realite-inconnue
Nathalie Sarraute aujourd'hui. Les impensés d'une écriture, edited by Ann Jefferson, Rainier Rocchi & Olivier Wagner (Paris: Hermann, 2023) https://www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/nathalie-sarraute-aujourd-hui-ann-jefferson
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between (Princeton University Press, 2020) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691197876/nathalie-sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute, translated by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat and Aude de Saint-Loup (Paris: Flammarion, 2019) https://editions.flammarion.com/nathalie-sarraute/9782081434998
Genius in France: An Idea and its Uses (Princeton University Press, 2015) press.princeton.edu/titles/10391.html
Le Défi biographique (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2012) [French translation of Biography and the Question of Literature in France, 2007, by Cécile Dudouyt] https://www.puf.com/content/Le_d%C3%A9fi_biographique
Biography and the Question of Literature in France (Oxford University Press, 2007) ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199270842.do.
Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme (London: Grant & Cutler, 2003)
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference (Cambridge University Press, 2000) http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/nathalie-sarraute-fiction-and-theory-questions-difference
Reading Realism in Stendhal (Cambridge University Press, 1988) http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/reading-realism-stendhal?format=PB
With David Robey and others, Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction (London: Batsford, 1982, revised and enlarged edition, 1986)
The Nouveau Roman and the Poetics of Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 1980) http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/european-literature/nouveau-roman-and-poetics-fiction?format=PB
EDITED JOURNAL NUMBER
L’Esprit createur 55/2, Summer 2015: Thinking Genius, Using Genius / Penser le génie à travers ses usages with Jean-Alexandre Perras
EDITIONS
Nathalie Sarraute, Critique, Les Fruits d’or, Entre la vie et la mort, Enfance in Œuvres complètes, under the general editorship of Jean-Yves Tadié in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1996, 2011)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black (Everyman Paperbacks, 1996)
Stendhal, The Charterhouse of Parma (Everyman, 1992)
TRANSLATIONS
Eric Vuillard, Sorrow of the Earth (Pushkin Press, 2016)
Pierre Michon, Winter Mythologies and Abbots (Yale University Press, 2014)
RECENT ARTICLES & CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
2024
‘Annie Ernaux: Future Prospects and the Politics of Time', French Cultural Studies, 35,1, pp. 42-51
2023
‘Je/elle: Nathalie Sarraute auto-biographe’, in Nathalie Sarraute aujourd’hui. Les impensés d’une écriture, eds. Ann Jefferson, Rainier Rocchi, & Olivier Wagner (Paris: Hermann), pp. 9-29
2021
'Francis Ponge et Nathalie Sarraute : histoire d’une amitié', Publications en ligne de la Sociétédes lecteurs de Francis Ponge http://francisponge-slfp.ens-lyon.fr/?Ann-Jefferson-Francis-Ponge-et
2020
'Le temps du génie', in Le génie au XIXe siècle : anatomie d’un monstre, eds. Ugo Battini and Marine Riguet (Paris: Classiques Garnier), pp. 153-167
'A Gaggle of Geese or Technical Rigour: Re-forming the Novel in 1940s France', in What Forms Can Do, eds. Shirley Jordan and Patrick Crowley (Liverpool University Press), pp. 39-52
2018
'Plunged in a Book: Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig, Hélène Cixous and the Literature of Experience', in Women's Life-Writing and the Practice of Reading, eds. Valérie Baisnée-Keay, Corinne Bigot, Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, Claire Bazin (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 119-130
2017
'L’(inter-)nationalisation du roman français dans l'après-guerre’, in Romans et récits français, entre nationalisme et cosmopolitisme, eds. Anne Cadin, Perrine Coudurier, Jessica Desclaux, Marie Gaboriaud et Delphine Pierre (Paris: Classiques Garnier), pp. 281-292
2016
‘Female Friendship as a Literary Fact’, Romanic Review, 107/1-4, pp. 137-151
‘Les Filles des deux Gérard’, Europe, nos. 1051-1052, pp. 201-207
‘Nathalie Sarraute’s Domestic Spaces: Windows, Walls and Blinding Lucidity’, in Lucidity : Essays in Honour of Alison Finch, eds. Ian James and Emma Wilson (Oxford: Legenda)
'Pierre Guyotat : Formations en langue normative’, Critique, nos. 824-824, pp. 158-68
2015
‘L’enfant prodige, ou le génie sur la sellette’, in L’Esprit créateur, 55/ 2 : ‘Thinking Genius, Using Genius / Penser le génie à travers ses usages’
‘Entre ciel et terre : le clergé de Pierre Michon’, in Pierre Michon. Fictions & Enquêtes, ed. Agnès Castglione (Nantes: Editions nouvelles Cécile Defaut)
2013
‘Lascaux et l’écriture faite de bêtes’, in Pierre Michon, eds. Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Agnès Castiglione, Dominique Viart (Paris : Gallimard)
‘L’uniforme du siècle’, in Le Rouge et le Noir de Stendhal : Lectures critiques, ed. Martine Reid (Paris : Classiques Garnier), pp. 189-204
2012
‘Stendhal and Romantic Irony’, in The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists, ed. Michael Bell (Cambridge University Press), pp. 159-175
2011
‘The Geography of Genius in Eighteenth-century France’, in Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism, eds. David Adams and Galin Tihanov (Legenda, MHRA), pp. 46-57. [Russian translation in Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie no, 110 (2011), pp. 176-87.]
2010
‘Genius and its Others’, Paragraph, 32, pp. 182-196
‘Gérard Macé et la passion des étoffes’, Revue des sciences humaines, 297, pp. 57-68