Jennifer Yee is an academic with an international background and a
passion for literature. After reading English and French at the
University of Sydney, she completed a postgraduate degree and
doctorate at the University of Paris VII. She has published widely
on French colonial fiction, exoticism, and nineteenth-century
fiction more generally, with particular interests in Flaubert,
Indochina, colonialism, and gender studies. After teaching in
Paris, Toulouse and
Newcastle, she came to Oxford where she has been a fellow (or
Official Student) of Christ Church, and a member of the Faculty of
Medieval and Modern Languages, since 2005.
The Colonial Comedy directs its reader towards the shadowy presence
of colonial politics at the margins of the French novel, drawing
our attention to an array of colonial objects and products, to
conspiracies of financial speculation and exploitation, to the
vagaries of colonial fortunes won and lost ... The book, indeed, is
rich in its evaluation of an array of literary works and critical
perspectives, and close readings are poignant and incisive.
*Edmund Birch, Modern Language Review*
More than once while reading Jennifer Yee's remarkable reclaiming
of colonialism and empire in French metropolitan realist novels, I
wished that it had been published several years earlier so that my
own book could have benefited from its many insights and meticulous
research ... The Colonial Comedy likewise earns its title: ample
and exacting, witty and generous, it is a deeply probing work of
literary and critical scholarship that brings nineteenth-century
Realist fiction right into the twenty-first century global context
where it belongs.
*Susan Hiner, Nineteenth-Century French Studies*
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