R. H. Gapper Book Prize
Encyclopedia
The R.H. Gapper Book Prize, offered by the Society for French Studies
, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 2002 for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland
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Society for French Studies
The Society for French Studies, or SFS, is the oldest learned association for French Studies in the UK and Ireland. It aims to promote teaching and research in French Studies within higher education....
, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 2002 for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland
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Table of winners
| Year | Winning Scholar | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 (joint) | Christopher Prendergast | The Classic. Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| 2008 (joint) | Mark Greengrass | Governing Passions. Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| 2007 | Eric Robertson | Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor (Yale University Press, 2006) |
| 2006 | Maria C. Scott | Baudelaire’s ‘Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives (Ashgate, 2005) |
| 2005 | Roger Pearson Roger Pearson (linguist) Roger Pearson is a professor of French at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. His research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth century French literature and has worked particularly on Voltaire, Stendhal, Zola, Maupassant and Mallarmé... |
Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford University Press, 2004) |
| 2004 | Sylvia Huot Sylvia Huot Sylvia Huot is a professor of Medieval French Literature at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Pembroke College. She is the author of several internationally renowned books on Medieval French Literature and the leading expert on the manuscripts of Roman de la Rose, having published... |
Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities lost and found (Oxford University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Clive Scott Clive Scott (linguist) Clive Scott is a professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and the author of many ground-breaking books on French poetry.... |
Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002) |
| 2002 | Stephen Bann Stephen Bann Stephen Bann CBE, FBA is the Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol. He attended Winchester College and King's College, Cambridge, attaining his PhD in 1967.... |
Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale University Press, 2001) |
External links
- http://www.sfs.ac.uk/gapper.htm - Announcement of winners at the Society for French Studies website