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Albert Camus’s ‘The New Mediterranean Culture’: A Text and its Contexts. Modern French Identities, 38

“This is a superb book which makes a major contribution not only to thinking about Camus, the Mediterranean, notions of East versus West … and political discourses in the inter-war years but also to thinking about history and texts” (Prof. Michael O’Neill, Durham). Foxlee engages a breadth of contexts: biographical, discursive, inter-textual and socio-political, including French discourses on Algeria (1830-1962) and the Mediterranean (1798-1937), French cultural-political history (1914-1940) and that of colonial Algeria. Foxlee utilised extensive, sometimes remote, French primary sources including undiscovered work in the new four-volume Pléiade edition of Camus’s works (2006-8), to which, in-turn, Foxlee’s research contributed.