Spire Pitou

SPIRE PITOU was Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature at the University of Delaware. In addition to the two previous volumes of The Paris Opera , Genesis and Glory, 1671-1715 and Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815 (Greenwood Press, 1983, 1985), he was the author of La Calprenede's Faramond: A Study of the Sources , Structure and Reputation of the Nove l and The Text and Sources of Chateaubrun's 'Lost Ajax' . He collaborated on A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The...See more

SPIRE PITOU was Professor Emeritus of French Language and Literature at the University of Delaware. In addition to the two previous volumes of The Paris Opera , Genesis and Glory, 1671-1715 and Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815 (Greenwood Press, 1983, 1985), he was the author of La Calprenede's Faramond: A Study of the Sources , Structure and Reputation of the Nove l and The Text and Sources of Chateaubrun's 'Lost Ajax' . He collaborated on A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The Seventeenth Century , A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: The Eighteenth Century, Supplement , and Encyclopedia of World Literature , and was the author of numerous articles in English and French. See less