Robert Lethbridge

Robert Lethbridge is Emeritus Honorary Professor of nineteenth-century French Literature at Cambridge University and Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature at the University of London. He was formerly Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of Maupassant: 'Pierre et Jean' and has edited Pierre et Jean and Bel- Ami for Oxford University Press's World Classics series. The majority of his publications have been devoted to the work of Émile Zola and the relationship...See more

Robert Lethbridge is Emeritus Honorary Professor of nineteenth-century French Literature at Cambridge University and Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature at the University of London. He was formerly Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is the author of Maupassant: 'Pierre et Jean' and has edited Pierre et Jean and Bel- Ami for Oxford University Press's World Classics series. The majority of his publications have been devoted to the work of Émile Zola and the relationship between literature and the visual arts in late nineteenth-century France. See less