R. H. Gapper Book Prize

The R.H. Gapper Book Prize, offered by the Society for French Studies, is a monetary prize that has been offered annually since 2002 for the best book published in the field of French Studies by a scholar based at an institution of higher education in the UK or Ireland.

Table of winners

Year Winning Scholar Book
2012 Michael Moriarty Disguised Vices. Theories of Virtue in Early Modern French Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011)
2011 Judith Still Derrida and Hospitality: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
2010 Ardis Butterfield The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
2009 Alain Viala La France galante (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008)
2008 (joint) Christopher Prendergast The Classic. Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 2007)
2008 (joint) Mark Greengrass Governing Passions. Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2007)
2007 Eric Robertson Arp: Painter, Poet, Sculptor (Yale University Press, 2006)
2006 Maria C. Scott Baudelaire’s ‘Le Spleen de Paris’: Shifting Perspectives (Ashgate, 2005)
2005 Roger Pearson Mallarmé and Circumstance: The Translation of Silence (Oxford University Press, 2004)
2004 Sylvia Huot Madness in Medieval French Literature: Identities lost and found (Oxford University Press, 2003)
2003 Clive Scott Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000 (Legenda, 2002)
2002 Stephen Bann Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale University Press, 2001)

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