Nicholas White is a specialist in nineteenth-century French literature, with a particular interest in the fictional representation of marriage and the family. He is the author of
French Divorce Fiction from the Revolution to the First World War and of
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. In addition to a range of articles and chapters in this domain, he has edited translations of Zola's
L'Assommoir and Huysmans's
A Rebours (winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize). He has been one of the General Editors of
Dix-Neuf, the journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, since its inception in 2003, and has co-edited three further volumes of essays:
Scarlet Letters: Fictions of Adultery from Antiquity to the 1990s,
Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France, and
After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789. He also reviews for the
Times Literary Supplement from time to time. Most recently he has guest-edited a special double number on Zola for the American journal
Romanic Review.
