Diana Knight

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Diana Marilyn Knight FBA (born November 1949[1]) is a British scholar of French literature, who specialises in 19th-century French literature, Honoré de Balzac, and Roland Barthes. is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Nottingham.[2]

She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2013.[3]

Selected works[edit]

  • Flaubert's Characters: The Language of Illusion (1985, 2009)
  • Feminism (1986) (ed)
  • Women and Representation (1995) (eds, with Judith Still)
  • Barthes and Utopia: Space Travel Writing (1997)
  • Roland Barthes (1997) (ed)
  • Critical Essays on Roland Barthes (2000) (ed)
  • Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'La Comédie humaine' (2007)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Diana Marilyn KNIGHT personal appointments". company-information.service.gov.uk. Companies House. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Diana Knight". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Professor Diana Knight". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 18 November 2021.