Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Freeman G. Henry -- Foreword / Freeman G. Henry -- Introduction / Freeman G. Henry -- Wild Margins, Tame Text: Inventing the Vernacular in the Gutters of Virgil's Aeneid / Raymond Cormier -- Venereal Verse or, For a Reappraisal of the Contreblason / Jeffery C. Persels -- From Faith to Bad Faith: Pascal, Valéry, Nietzsche / Françoise Jaouën -- Libelles et pamphlets (1780-1789): récurrences dégradatrices et multiplicité des formes / Jean-Jacques Tatin-Gourier -- Chateaubriand's Discours de réception at the Académie Française / Harry Redman Jr. -- Le récit de voyage destiné à la jeunesse ou le montage savamment agencé / Boussif Ouasti -- The feuilleton artistique: On the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Texts (with Théophile Gautier) / Lois Cassandra Hamrick -- Folklore or Literature? The Marginalization of the Nineteenth-Century French-Canadian "conte" / Jane Koustas -- Le repos de la critique: Women Writers of the Fifties / Susan Weiner -- Sarrazin's Articulation / Warren F. Motte Jr. -- Science and Detective Fiction: Complementary Genres on the Margins of French Literature / Lucille Frackman Becker -- Les aventures de San-Antonio: la littérature derrière le roman d'espionnage / Daniel F. Ferreras -- Théorie de la réception et archéologie de la bande dessinée / Josette A. Wisman -- Fred's Comics: Playing with the Codes of Representation / Jean-Louis Morhange.

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