Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the national and the global / Susan Rubin Suleiman and Christie McDonald -- Worlding medieval French / Sharon Kinoshita -- "There's a new world here": Pantagruel via Oronce Finé / Tom Conley -- The global and the figural: early modern reflections on boundary-crossing / Jacob Vance -- Globality and classicism: the moralists encounter the self / Eric Méchoulan -- From the rectangle to the globe: theater in the ancien régime / Jérôme Brillaud -- Planetary perspectives in enlightenment fiction and science / Natasha Lee -- Homesickness in an expanding world: the case of the nineteenth-century lyric / Evelyne Ender -- Critical conventions, literary landscapes, and postcolonial ecocriticism / Françoise Lionnet -- Literature, space, and the French nation-state after the 1950s / Verena Andermatt Conley -- All over the place: global women writers and the Maghreb / Alison Rice -- Speaking the other: constructing Frenchness in medieval England / Kimberlee Campbell -- Walking east in the Renaissance / Philip John Usher -- Versailles meets the Taj Mahal / Faith E. Beasley -- On the ethnographic imagination in the eighteenth century / Christie McDonald -- The slave trade, la françafrique, and the globalization of French / Christopher L. Miller -- The voyage and its others: nineteenth-century inscriptions of mobility / Janet Beizer -- Traffic in translation: rereading supervielle / Sylvia Molloy -- From the French Roman colonial to the francophone postcolonial novel: René Maran as precursor / F. Abiola Irele -- French literature in the world system of translation / Gisèle Sapiro -- Intellectuals without borders / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Language, literature, and identity in the Middle Ages / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet -- Negotiating with gender otherness: French literary history revisited / Danielle Haase-Dubosc -- Specters of multiplicity: eighteenth-century literature revisited from the outside in / Yves Citton -- Speculation and economic xenophobia as literary world systems: the nineteenth-century business novel / Emily Apter -- Jews and the construction of French identity from Balzac to Proust / Maurice Samuels -- Traversal of languages: the Québecois laboratory / Lise Gauvin -- Space, identity, and difference in contemporary fiction: Duras, Genet, Ndiaye / Michael Sheringham -- "Présence antillaise": hybridity and the contemporary French literary landscape / Mylène Priam -- Choosing French: language, foreignness, and the canon (Beckett/Némirovsky) / Susan Rubin Suleiman.