Diana Knight Explained

Diana Marilyn Knight (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

• 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)

Notes and References

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