Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

'Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature is a well-grounded and incisive study. Hughes combines an eye for detail with argumentative commitment.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin; 2. Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusions in Proust's Recherche; 3. Claiming cultural dissidence: the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable; 4. Camus and the resistance to history; 5. Peripheries, public and private: Genet and dispossession; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

'Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature is a well-grounded and incisive study. Hughes combines an eye for detail with argumentative commitment.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin; 2. Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusions in Proust's Recherche; 3. Claiming cultural dissidence: the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable; 4. Camus and the resistance to history; 5. Peripheries, public and private: Genet and dispossession; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.

'Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature is a well-grounded and incisive study. Hughes combines an eye for detail with argumentative commitment.' The Times Literary Supplement

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin; 2. Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusions in Proust's Recherche; 3. Claiming cultural dissidence: the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable; 4. Camus and the resistance to history; 5. Peripheries, public and private: Genet and dispossession; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.