Books by Allan H. Pasco

Allan H. Pasco's Allusion looks at the way allusion works in specific fictions and how it affects the process of reading. Drawing from a wide range of French authors, Pasco uses a number of examples to show how allusions work, how texts integrate other texts to create new metaphorical constructs.

Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scenes de la vie de province.

Calling on history, sociology, and psychology as well as literature as points of reference, this title examines the conceptual shift in the ideal of love in eighteenth-century France. It explores the radical, though gradual, changes that occurred during the Enlightenment with respect to how the emotion of love was viewed.