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Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution and coeditor of Spectacles of Realism: Body, Gender, Genre and The Literary Channel.
Co-Winner of the 1999 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, Modern Language Association ""This is an important book... Almost every page presents some salient point, proffers a useful fact, argues a question... In short, a remarkable work, necessary, and highly recommended.""--Armand E. Singer, European Legacy ""Carefully crafted, Cohen's book makes a persuasive argument about the relative value of prose realism and its chief rival in the sentimental social novel. Her book merits a large and appreciative audience of literary historians, theorists, and specialists in women's studies.""--James Allen Smith, Nineteenth-Century French Studies ""[A] significant scholarly contribution.""--G. Gabrielle Starr, The Wordsworth Circle ""A serious, intelligent attempt to understand more fully the early development of the nineteenth-century French novel.""--John T. Booker, French Review
